Sometimes people around me talk about supporting communism. Sometimes other people around me talk about having escaped communism in their home country, like a dystopic nightmare.
I'm assuming these groups must mean different things by communism: what is that difference?
Conversation
Replying to
i rate the average 'empathy and genuinely trying to stand the opposing viewpoint' level of the comments on this tweet at a C-
2
43
Replying to
no country has ever achieved communism. Attempts have been corrupted and thwarted, often by the US.
2
5
Show replies
Replying to
The difference is largely between focusing on the injustices of capitalism vs. the realization that capitalism has produced the best living conditions so far.
3
40
Replying to
By communism they probably mean euro-style social democracy + more social justice
1
Replying to
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford is an amazing historical novel that covers the journey from the first kind of communism to the second kind.
1. In 1959, Russians truly believed in the first kind of communism.
2. The second kind of communism inevitably follows the first.
2
Replying to
If someone says they've escaped communism, they've most likely escaped totalitarian regimes operating falsely under the name of communism. Cuba? Never communist. The U.S.S.R.? Same deal. The Soviets were communists like the Nazis were socialists. (They weren't.)
2
2