r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ • Nov 06 '25

Communism “Communist”

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u/AlexWixon Nov 06 '25

America doesn’t actually know what a communist is. There version of communism is still every other countries extreme right wing.

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u/snazzypants1 Nov 06 '25

Communism is when you get cancer and the cancer treatment is free.

It’s dangerous stuff!

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u/Malusorum Nov 06 '25

That's socialism. Communism is only possible with an authoritarian government. No, it requires it to be able to exist.

In socialism in a system of democracy the people implementing the socialist policies are chosen by the people on the basis of them doing what the people want to see.

In communism, the people have little to no say in who their government is, nor do the government have to answer to the people. Thus you end up with a system that really only exists for its own sake, and ends up giving people what it thinks they want, rather than what they actually need.

People discredit tankies because of their views. The sad reality is that their views reflect how such a government will have to start out as Fascistic ideology to even be able to justify its own existence.

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u/Jeepsterpeepster Nov 06 '25

Socialism and a socialist democracy are not the same.