blade_barrier

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[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 minute ago

And how are the material conditions for the average working-class person in those monarchies?

Looking at today's monarchies, the conditions are about the same as in today's democracies.

How much autonomy did they have over their lives compared to the 200 or 300 years they would have lived under a democracy?

The same?

How much suffering happened under monarchy compared to democracy?

The same average amount of suffering.

Because if all of you are measuring is how long the ruling class can subjugate the working class, then sure I’m monarchy is better.

It's obviously the most important parameter. If the govt system can't even sustain itself for long enough, then it's not even worth considering it.

It doesn’t mean I want to live under one

Thanks for sharing your opinion.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 minutes ago

The Khmer Rouge was never socialist

They weren't socialist bc they took a step past socialism and into communism directly. They abolished money, replaced army with armed militia, achieved direct democracy, abolished institution of family, replaced farmers with agrarian proletariat, achieved 100% public housing. USSR is a capitalist shithole compared to Democratic Kampuchea.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 1 points 25 minutes ago

I'm not a communist bro.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 1 points 27 minutes ago

Dunno. Dropping friends due to politics seems totally cringe. Civilized people should have the option of "let's not talk about politics" instead of breaking up relationships.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 0 points 29 minutes ago (2 children)

Considering I don't know any democracy that laster longer than 200-300 years and there are a lot of monarchies that lasted for many hundreds or even thousands of years.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml -2 points 36 minutes ago

Easy: democracies don't last long compared to the other forms government. So they can't be better than other forms of government.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 0 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

What's the longest lifespan of a democratic state in human history? Now compare it to the average lifespan of monarchies, for example.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 0 points 45 minutes ago
  1. Yes. Obviously.

  2. No. Both are shit.

  3. No.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 0 points 49 minutes ago

Democracy and dictatorship is not a dichotomy.

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There is no practical alternative to this

An alternative would be to stop trying to overthrow some classes and touch grass

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 hours ago

Soviet Union bureaucracy was not the proletariat, they didn't use the mop to produce commodities, so they didn't have proletarian class consciousness. Whatever interests they had, it was not working class interests. Lenin, Trotsky and Sverdlov were one nobleman and two petty bourgeoisie.

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