Well here’s an interesting situation. I think most of the world would agree it’s important to “crush dissent,” to put it crudely and without context, of anyone who denies the Holocaust happened. And by “crush dissent,” that means all the ways to stop that sort of ideology from gainfully reproducing, hopefully short of literally jailing people, even though Germany does do that. Let’s say ideology X causes mass emmiseration, poverty, and climate catastrophe. But let’s say X also allows a minority of people to become very wealthy at the expense of the vast majority of the word’s population and ecology. If we want that to be different (do you want that to be different?), one way to start fixing things is by stopping the ideology of X from gainfully reciprocating, which involves education, raising of material conditions, organizing, and promoting community and healthy/ethical social relations, which is communism. The alternative is not doing that, and causing the extermination of the remaining 1/3 of wildlife and subsequently human life on the planet.
You are acting like most people sit down and hash out their ideology instead of adopting it piecemeal as they stumble through life.
Why should folks who aren't ardent and consistent in their beliefs be denied their voice? Also, who is going to determine this purity?
Not a commentary on communism but a genuine question—do you think people “have a voice” under capitalism?
To varying degrees the people always have a voice.
You can't crush dissent completely under any system or we wouldn't be talking right now.
Well here’s an interesting situation. I think most of the world would agree it’s important to “crush dissent,” to put it crudely and without context, of anyone who denies the Holocaust happened. And by “crush dissent,” that means all the ways to stop that sort of ideology from gainfully reproducing, hopefully short of literally jailing people, even though Germany does do that. Let’s say ideology X causes mass emmiseration, poverty, and climate catastrophe. But let’s say X also allows a minority of people to become very wealthy at the expense of the vast majority of the word’s population and ecology. If we want that to be different (do you want that to be different?), one way to start fixing things is by stopping the ideology of X from gainfully reciprocating, which involves education, raising of material conditions, organizing, and promoting community and healthy/ethical social relations, which is communism. The alternative is not doing that, and causing the extermination of the remaining 1/3 of wildlife and subsequently human life on the planet.
That's an odd thing to say in a community that had to relocate because of a ban on a larger platform, owned by a billionaire.
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Perfect description of how the nazis improvised their genocides!