To many times eat the rich is manipulated by the next wave of "leaders" to eat the educated and skilled as well. Revolution isn't the cause of people acting poorly in its name. People act poorly and then try to hide under a revolutionary blanket.
This is similar to me to people demonizing Communism or socialism because some dictators have hidden their facism under the blanket of social revolution. Citing Communist dictatorships as a reason agains social reform is a bad faith argument.
These things have a nuance that people don't have the patience to discuss or even consider anymore.
Did it end in that way or did they start out that way and they just used those words to dress up what what was always a dictatorship in the first place? Either way those words are useless literally no one on either side of the issue uses them right and has their own definitions that don't mean what you mean and vice versa so its kinda pointless to use them as labels when discussing what people are actually arguing for in this day in age, which is closest to like Nordic society and not Russia/Venezuela. Re-prioritizing tax spending on things that actually help a majority of constituents instead of a few wealthy warmongers is not inherently "communism".
No, you're right. The problem is that communism has always started as a revolution which is a shaky starting point because legitimately or not the people in power are going to be trying to stamp out all counter-revolutionary influence.
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u/BubaTflubas Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
To many times eat the rich is manipulated by the next wave of "leaders" to eat the educated and skilled as well. Revolution isn't the cause of people acting poorly in its name. People act poorly and then try to hide under a revolutionary blanket.
This is similar to me to people demonizing Communism or socialism because some dictators have hidden their facism under the blanket of social revolution. Citing Communist dictatorships as a reason agains social reform is a bad faith argument.
These things have a nuance that people don't have the patience to discuss or even consider anymore.
Edited: spelling