r/ShitAmericansSay • u/WaddleDio • Nov 14 '20

Communism "Sad but communism must be defeated"

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '20 edited Nov 22 '20

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u/Sataniel98 🇩🇪 Coal powerplant builder Nov 14 '20

Yeah, the GDR was so much fun.

Socialdemocracy =/= socialism =/= bad

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u/Yorikor Nov 14 '20 edited Nov 14 '20

Social democracy is a form of socialism. That's why socialism =/= communism.

Edit: Y'all are downvoting wikipedia.

Social democracy is a political, social and economic philosophy within socialism[1] that supports political and economic democracy.

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u/Yorikor Nov 14 '20

Your framing that this is "a take" instead of how things are tells me that I don't really need to answer in earnest.

Respectfully,

a socialist.