• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    No no, you see. Its okay and normal to destroy your body for the glorious state.

    The problem here is you enjoying yourself and experience happiness. Personal happiness is a sin in communism, because it might lead to thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, and thats the last thing the government wants. Just think of what it could do to the production!

    /s because I know capitalism sucks, but communism sucks as well.

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      7 months ago

      Weird how your ‘communism’ always seems identical to capitalism, and literally every critique applies to both.

      Almost like you don’t actually know what communism is and have created an entirely fictional external scapegoat to feel like the horror you labor in and perpetuate is morally good, or something.

      This isn’t to defend the USSR, plenty of problems, but, like, you never bothered to learn what any of those actually were. Also, ussr≠all communism, some, including the USSR’s official position for the entirety of its existence, would argue that they weren’t communist at all.

      Not that you care to use any crotical tjinking or curiosity to scratch the surface of the ideas you were told and discover myriad (mostly still shitty, but way more interesting and exciting) worlds beneath.

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      7 months ago

      Why would any government oppose people’s thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, when that’s specifically the goal of Communism to encourage, as opposed to Capitalism?

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        7 months ago

        Because Communist governments see any opposition to communism as a threat to their power, so they do not tolerate dissidence even if they claim to tolerate dissidence. It’s just another example of the paradox of tolerance.

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          7 months ago

          How is freedom and self-improvement “opposition to Communism?” Do you have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?