The lack of meaningful worker enfranchisement in any of those regimes should tell you all you need to know, really - they're red-coded fascist lunatics.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Soo is it still okay to support good communism which doesn't spy on the people and is cool?

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Star Trek Socialism

End scarcity, deconstruct currency, and put me in space 😎

[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also sexy aliens

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think there's such a thing as species dysphoria in the Star Trek universe? God knows we saw them trivially change the crew's race and back for every random survey mission, I'd love to try being a cute Andorian for a few weeks.

[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I would 100% spend at least one day a week as a cute young alien in a short skirt and a mod hairstyle (I didn't watch the show enough to know their species, but, like, one of the ones that look like humans with unusual foreheads). And the other 6 days as a cute young alien in Magnum PI shorts and a tshirt (but male this time).

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, go for it.

[–] HubertCumberdanes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean utopia?

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes exactly. Is it acceptable to believe in a world where everyone can be happy and not have to worry about having enough money to afford a living? Would be super sick, but also quite the extremisticly positive imagination of the world.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What bothers me is that you get called a Tankie for simply acknowledging that this just isn't gonna happen without some violence nowadays.

[+] doidera@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not trying to add water to an oil fire but Lenin himself categorized the USSR as state capitalist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he and his people consider state capitalism to be a necessary step towards communism?

The state capitalism, which is one of the principal aspects of the New Economic Policy, is, under Soviet power, a form of capitalism that is deliberately permitted and restricted by the working class. Our state capitalism differs essentially from the state capitalism in countries that have bourgeois governments in that the state with us is represented not by the bourgeoisie, but by the proletariat, who has succeeded in winning the full confidence of the peasantry. Unfortunately, the introduction of state capitalism with us is not proceeding as quickly as we would like it. For example, so far we have not had a single important concession, and without foreign capital to help develop our economy, the latter’s quick rehabilitation is inconceivable.

Lenin

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Enlighten me.