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The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
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Communism is bad. Socialism is good.
Spoken by someone that doesn’t understand socialism
Communism is the political and economic model where the totality of the individual’s profits are taken by the community for the community’s well being. Socialism is the political and economic model where a society ensures the individual’s well being by providing the basic necessities. Examples of this include food stamps or socialized health care. So, please, impart your wisdom on how I am wrong.
You have the liberal definition of socialism. Socialism is early stage communism.
Really? So every other developed country has it and is falling to communism? I am sure their socialized medicine is just the death nail in civilized society. Is that why our healthcare is so expensive and terrible? Maybe they should get with the program and have its citizenry be bankrupted by getting hit by a car.
You have a liberal understanding of things you dont understand
That’s welfare capitalism, or “social democracy” (which a couple hundred years ago was actually a synonym for communism, but nowadays refers to welfare capitalism), aka “the nordic model”, not socialism. What socialism and communism actually are is a longer discussion.
How about liberals try not equating Communism and Nazism for once? I bet you own a house.
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He just said, “I bet you own a house” as if it was some sort of gotcha. Nothing this person says will have any credibility.
My mom was just telling me a while ago about how one of her uncles was tortured by the communists after they came to power. Small note: he was a member of the legionnaires, so I can relate to this meme.
Sounds like a racist who was a part of a terrorist group.
Both can be pieces of shit.
Yeah, or they were LGBTQ+.
Or a slightly different version of communist.
Or any other flavor of leftist.
Talking as if the US didn’t keep them in harms way. This is a nation that mastered the art of eugenics
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And worked hard to save and evacuate nazis.
Among them Mengele who Hitler sent to the US (Carnegie’s American Eugenics Society) to learn about the superior Nordic race.
US army only joined in in Europe after they knew the Soviets would win and would get all of it if they didn’t get a piece in the west.
“Good.”
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reading that article, I mostly read that’s it’s debated and that what the famine were weaponized. Also, commentary on communism being the cause of them is largely dependent on the critic eye
Uh… Who the hell cares about any of that? Whether the Soviets shirked their responsibility to keep their (forcibly incorporated, mind you) subjects fed due to malice or malice-fueled incompetence matters about as much as whether the IDF is mass-murdering Gazans because they want to mass murder Gazans or because they’re bombing any target their shitty AI gives them.
yeah so… we’re talking about weather to put all the blame on communism in general. Communism is an ideology, not a government ?
The OP says communists, not communism so I’m not sure what brought that on.
I mean, Stalinism wasn’t communism, so that’s a fair point.
Reminds me of the “real capitalism has never been tried” that right-wing libertarians retreat to when you point out the massive flaws which occur under capitalism – namely that those ills are the product of bastardizing capitalism with government regulation (“crony capitalism”). Where of course they get to dictate exactly what “real capitalism” is against the consensus of historians and economists– usually pure laissez-faire capitalism.
That is a pretty wild generalisation to make. From me claiming one person that pretended to be a communist wasn’t to somehow me being a… Soviet fanboy or something? Stalin and Mao both committed atrocities, pretending to be something they aren’t. China keeps doing it to this day, as does DPRK. Lenin wasn’t a saint folks over at .ml pretend he was either. People get corrupted by power, it happens depressingly often under any political ideology.
Its debated by russian historical revisionism Most communist crimed have not seen wide coverage in english. This is why it’s not okay to fly swastika but cool to fly hammer and cycle.
You can fly the hammer and sickle the same way you can fly the US flag, or the Chinese, or UK, or Turkish flags.
The difference being having a flag under which atrocities were done, vs having a flag that represents the reason behind those atrocities.
Uhhh… Who’s going to tell them what the official national flag of Germany was from 1935 to 1945?
Me?
Yes. Who’s going to tell you that the black swastika in a white circle in a red rectangle was the official flag of Nazi Germany’s government? This is the flag “under which atrocities were done”, i.e. under which the Holocaust happened and under which Germany plunged the world into WWII. If your argument is that this isn’t “a flag under which atrocities were done” but rather “a flag that represents the reason behind those atrocities”, then why doesn’t the hammer and sickle represent the reason behind the Holodomor? Behind all the other extreme atrocities committed by the USSR? Otherwise, if your argument is that it is a flag under which atrocities were done like the hammer and sickle, and you’re saying the hammer and sickle are fine to fly, then what’s the difference with flying the flag of Nazi Germany? I don’t think either of these despicable flags should be flown, to be clear, but I’m asking why you take exception here based on your own argument (or, if you don’t take exception, what the hell is wrong with you).
Basically what I’m saying is that your rationale of “having a flag under which atrocities were done, vs having a flag that represents the reason behind those atrocities” makes zero sense and is comparing functionally the same thing.
it’s perfectly clear in my first comment.
Atrocities were committed under the US flag. Do you think it shouldn’t be flown? The same way for the UK, China, Netherlands etc should all those flags be forbidden?
The reasoning is clear. Those flags represent much more than just those atrocities. The nazi flag doesn’t. The same way the Confederation flag also doesn’t.
The hammer and sickle is flown in plenty of places not in defense of atrocities like holodomor but for many other reasons. And you will find that the people flying that symbol will generally agree and not defend Holodomor.
Also because communism is an ideology and not a movement of one country only.
Where I’m from the hammer and sickle is a symbol of liberation and workers rights for example.
Did Trotsky have grandchildren? Or did the Communists exterminate his entire family line?
His grandson died 2 years ago https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/17/este-j17.html
Yes, plenty. of his great granddaughters is an official at the NIH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Volkow
Oh cool, I’m going to listen to her thing with The Moth later, thank you!
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Your entire comment history reads like a typical BlueMAGA shitlib, you are an enabler of fascism
You guys focus way too much on division.
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They always are. Cowards who are to chicken to admit what they believe.
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The mensheviks were bloodthirsty war mongers who repressed the working class. And Pol Pot wasn’t even a socialist.
Just sounds like you don’t understand communism is a form of anarchy
In theory sure they are similar.
Real world existing communists in power cause endless suffering and death though.
I think the point is that Chinese and Russian communism are not real communism. They are authoritarian capitalist regimes with a pinch of socialism. (Which even the USA has) that only call themselves communist.
They were lead by communists believing in communism organized in a communist party. That’s what the ideology leads to.
Yes but we don’t call electric motors diesel motors anymore either do we?
I don’t care that people call them commies but it’s not correct in the literal sense.
It’s not about others calling them communists. They call themselves communists and believe in the ideology.
Mao Zedong is a hero who fought against Western imperialism and for the working class.
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Mao killed more Chinese people than anyone else.
He put more into fighting Japanese imperialism and Soviet imperialism. The way he fought western imperialism is by banning books and putting intellectuals into work camps or killing them outright.
Why is this comm on .world? These people don’t have anything but love for capitalism and will never sympathize with another human being.
I could have created this on .ml but that would be preaching to the choir.
How is comparing victims of communism to Nazis “sympathy”?
‘victims of communism’ is a nazi term.
Victims of Communists is better.
Still Nazi apologia.
Nazi apologia is when you acknowledge the victims of the great purge or the Mass Deportations
They say, as they group minorities, Queer people and communists in with Nazis.
Can’t support capitalism and the marginalized. Gotta pick one.
Apparently, you can also support neither :) as expertly demonstrated by the ignorance in this meme.
I mean you can say that. At the same time I grew up in a communist country where your neighbours were disappeared for whatever reason that authorities saw fit. I saw the oligarchs keep their power under a different name and regular folk stay poor, and get even poorer than before. You American kids love the idea of communism but it don’t work in practice, it requires humans to be selfless, it requires leaders who will reach the top and give up power and money, and spread it to the people below. I don’t think that’s possible with humans, too selfish. Socialism under direct rules and regulations, great. But strong man communism isn’t different than fascism or capitalism to the people at the bottom
Too bad there’s not a comm for enlightenedcentrism around here
They literally say they grew up in Canada repeatedly in earlier comments they’ve made , TIL Canada is AES
5-D they’re Indigenous
Enlightened centrism is when you don’t want your neighbors to be disappeared.
Nice joke
The only joke is believing what Russia does or has ever done should inform your opinion on whether a system is viable.
Those dudes just love the taste of boot, simple as.
I can’t believe you called me American.
My killed by Headshot.
I went through her papers with my grandma and there was also a letter from his death notification.Thats how its starts, first you tell them there are nazis and you want to liberate them from the nazis. Than you invade theyr countrie. Read about siberian gulags and how many “nazi grandperants” were sent there before boot licking these commies.
Didn’t know the Cambodians, Polish, Kalmyks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Anarchists, Left SRs, Trotskyists and Peasants were all Nazis. Must be fun to live in that world.
The Finns who died defending their homeland from naked, opportunistic Soviet imperialism also wish to say hi.
Ah yes, the poor innocent nazi aligned fins “only doing it to fight communism.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-11/report-finds-finnish-soldiers-were-complicit-in-wwii-atrocities/10798222Have you ever – even once – thought that if:
- The USSR hadn’t started the Winter War under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact it signed on friendly terms with Nazi Germany to grab more land while the rest of Europe wasn’t in a position to help, killing and wounding tens of thousands of Finns
- The USSR hadn’t stolen 10% of Finland’s land in exchange for what can generously be described as a “promise” of peace
- The USSR hadn’t scuttled Finland’s attempts afterward to develop a defensive pact with Norway and Sweden
- The USSR hadn’t invaded and absorbed the Baltic states as part of the same pact with Nazi Germany
- The USSR hadn’t demanded mineral rights already given to the UK and then instigated riots in Finland when they didn’t get what they wanted
- The USSR hadn’t interfered with the December 1940 Finnish election
- The USSR had offered to return Finland’s land when it realized “oh no, the consequences of my own actions: Finland is allied militarily with Nazi Germany now.”
- The USSR had been on friendly terms with Finland instead of giving them what every serious historian describes as no realistic opportunity not to ally with Germany
That maybe they wouldn’t have been forced to ally with Germany in the Continuation War? That Finland might have remained neutral or even joined in with the Allies which the Soviets were a part of? You can even look in the article you’re linking to:
As a part of the pact, Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler insisted that the Finns dispatch [1408] soldiers to the SS Wiking division similar to the volunteers it demanded from Nazi-occupied Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and elsewhere.
Reluctantly, Finns complied and covertly recruited the first group of 400 SS volunteers to be sent for training.
The leading Finnish military historians who undertook the probe into the country’s wartime role wrote that those Finnish troops likely witnessed shootings and other atrocities against Jews and other civilians by advancing Nazi troops.
This was all done reluctantly. The Finns had no ideological alignment with the Nazis; it was done purely out of necessity because of the USSR’s – again – nakedly imperialist actions. You have zero intellectual integrity. None. Your rhetoric relies not on a convincing argument but on the reader’s ignorance. And I’m not even a little surprised to see you sticking up for Putin’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine elsewhere.
Edit: Also, where the hell did “only doing it to fight communism” come from? I said the exact opposite: that they were doing it in self-defense against Soviet imperialist aggression. What?
So you just stated that Russia was imperialistic. That in itself should give you more context about the kind of nation Russia was. Communism is a way of thought not anyone nation. Think more critically about what you say.
Is that why it’s never worked?
Cuba has the most educated population per land mass.
They have free health care and post secondarily.
A lot of well off countries dabble in communism Switzerland for example has universal income.
Don’t sit here and pretend like it doesn’t work.
Learn first.
I’ve been to Cuba for work. I don’t plan on going back unless it’s for work. Dabbling is not the same as being a fully communist country. No health care is “free”.
Learn first.
Switzerland has worse universal healthcare than many of its neighbors.
Cuba also has a secret police happy to lock up any opposition. Lots of Cubans want to leave the country.
Good education and relatively good health care is the only thing Cuba has going for it.
Economic development was whack for decades when they wasted the generous subsidies the Soviet Union provided. Today they keep the economy afloat with cheap oil from Venezuela and remittance sent by the diaspora.
To this day Cuba rations food with coupons and most people are poor.
Post says: “communists killed”. Not “communism killed”. The USSR were communists. The Finns were innocent when the USSR invaded them. Communists killed tens of thousands of innocents in that invasion. The entire aim of this post is to disingenuously suggest that anytime someone brings up the innocent victims of the USSR, they’re actually defending the Nazis killed in WWII.
That’s not what you wrote though. You biased is showing.
thanks I don’t read revisionism and lies
>“I don’t read revisionism and lies”
>Quoting the article you fucking linked to and didn’t read past the headline
your interpretation of an article and cherrypicking
And the headline is all that matters.Certainly not: FINNISH military historians who undertook the probe into the country’s wartime role wrote… as if those nazi whitewashers are neutral.
You had a swastika on your luftwaffe until 2017 FFS.
And your BS answer undoubtedly is: but it was before Hitler used it!
Again not interested in your revisionism, you were nazis then and still have plenty now. Awful people.
Not so different from the Balts, at least they are proud of their nazi past and have remembrances, like the Ukros.
Get over it and live with it
First they came for the grandfathers and I did not speak out, for my grandfather was a Nazi.
Two things are true at once:
- They did crimes
- They fought even bigger criminals
And two things are true at once:
- Descendants of their innocent victims consider them monsters, and they are correct and valid.
- Descendants of their the even bigger criminals hide among the other category, and they are dishonest.
The only correct take in capitalism-communism discourse
No, this is the for the Communism-fascism discourse.
When it comes to Communism-capitalism, my take is that while we are able, correct and valid to pinpoint the crimes of (big-C) Communists, we are steeped in (small-c) capitalist ideology and are completely desensitized to the ongoing systemic crimes of our own system, which are in my opinion graver than anything the (big-C) Communists ever did.
Fair point. I definitely feel like the shortcomings of capitalism will become more evident if/when we eventually switch to a different politico-economic model. For now, the propaganda is still prevalent.
