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TheOneWithAReallyLongName · 76w
I'm gonna preempt by saying I'm not actually advocating for communism, just pointing out a trend I've noticed. I can count on no fingers the number of times I've been warned about the dangers of comm...
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oh I wasn’t being mean to you at any point, my bad if you misunderstood. I fully agree with your statement on this trend

what I understand from communist theories I read, and from people arguably being in harmony with those ideas, communism implies a collective society, without "any form" of money or personal property/possesion.

no social class, no ruling party, no working just for paying taxes or rent, putting equity and freedom on the fundamentals of the society, I must admit it is quite appealing in the theory.

but the actual implementation of theory into practice somehow always end up in totalitarian, violent regimes, mass murder, hate crimes, corruption, oppression, opposition censorship, just look at North Korea, China, Cuba, Russia.

you can't have freedom in a fair society, and you can't have fairness in a free society, they’re incompatible.

I also don’t like the fact of too much focusing on the collective, while forgetting individual sovereignty.

I agree that capitalism is far from perfect, a lot of problems come from it, but this is nowhere close to the level of harm communism do to the people who actually lived under this regime, only western teens living under capitalism think it is a good idea, but I never heard anyone from communism telling me it is a good thing
TheOneWithAReallyLongName · 76w
Okay, yeah, you've got the gist. Props for actually taking the time to read the basics and form your own opinion on it. Precious few people understand it beyond politicians smearing anything that might help the poor or cost the rich money. And yeah, it sounds nice, but I don't think we're ready for ...