Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?
If I am wrong, the people on hexbear have also misunderstood it. They believe that the only way to the utopia they want is through China’s authoritarian methods. Their support for China is about as pervasive there as lemmy.world’s support for DLC style neoliberal globalism.
mentioned!! 
lemmy world is a hive of losers who know absolutely nothing convincing each other that the status quo is good and moral
maybe trite to point out, but it betrays such a total lack of understanding of dialectical and historical materialism and of communism itself when people talk about it in the past tense like this. and like it's a binary state a country can choose to enter by pressing the communism button or whatever. juvenile state of political education.
In a real democracy, the less wealthy majority would use their majority power in their own benefit, and exert despotic control and repression over the wealthy minority, so to speak. If this doesn't happen, then you don't live in a democracy.
The west calls a country autocratic when they won't let rich assholes do whatever they want.
all states are class dictatorships, the function of a state is to assert class rule
I feel like slop posts shouldn't just copy the original post and need to have a title that makes it clear it's slop.
Yeah lol, we should have a way to astral project these serious responses here into the LW comment section too.
Yeah I'm an autocrat, I don't know how to drive manual transmission so no one else should either
(Plot twist: I actually do know how to drive a manual, but I have an authoritarian skull shape so I just love oppressing people)
If you're an autocrat does that make some of us deceptions? (Autobots & decepticons but american politicians bit joke)
Sure, why not. Let's just roll with it (see what I did there teehee)
Why doesn't anyone other than the Capitalists themselves ever have any real freedom under Capitalism?
For the same reason your sibling would never hand you the controller without moms intervention
I disagree with calling Chile a communist country (Allende had barely achieved anything by the time he was killed, thanks to huge opposition from reactionaries) but otherwise that's a good and lib-friendly way to shut down an anticommunist bit.
I like how the lib below them says “Yeah those incidents were bad but the US is still less authoritarian than China because people are calling for a socialist revolution on this site and aren’t jailed.”
Clearly they have never seen a local PD infiltrate and jail a tiny anarchist group.
True freedom is when you can log on to the internet and post "The government is poopypants"
I don't know, the bad grammar makes it almost incomprehensible.
First I would tell you to educate yourself on democratic centralism, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the politbureau and other Marxist Leninist concepts before we can have a productive discussion. Also read Blackshirts and Reds by Parenti and familiarize yourself with seige socialism. Others will be able to provide you better answers and sources I am sure.
