• xor@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    the biggest flaw in communist theory is the “temporary dictatorship” part…
    it turns out, temporary dictators never willingly stop being dictators…

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      8 months ago

      The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is just a stupid name for the transitional period. It’s not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but unfortunately Marx was a little drama queen from time to time…

      • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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        8 months ago

        No, Marx was right; there’s no way to do it without a dictatorship. There is no universe in which everyone miraculously agrees on how things should be run, and that means that coercion is necessary which in turn means that there has to be centralized and concentrated power, ie; an authoritarian dictatorship.

        The experiment has been run before and we know how it ends.