• davel@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Socialist countries aren’t communist, you call them pre-communist which highlights my point.

    This is just quibbling over semantics & context. When communists run a state, yes that state is technically socialist/pre-communist. That’s why those states have “Socialist” in their names and not “Communist.” There is never going to be a “communist state,” because definitionally communism’s long-term end-goal is a classless society. And since we define the state as a system which protects the interests of one economic class over others, such a society would definitionally be stateless.

    So when someone—assuming they know what they’re talking about—says “communist state/country,” they mean a communist-led socialist state.

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        Sophomoric is the word

        It’s a broken culture that makes people act like you; professorial on topics they objectively know less about than their ‘audience’

        At what age did you collapse entirely into your mind palace? When did you decide you knew enough to extrapolate what the outside world was like through pure platonic reasoning?