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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

whoops, brazil. we had a budding workers movement that was absolutely crushed by the traitorous brazilian military, in the name of the US of course.

that hasnt stopped syndicalism to take root here and improve our lives a bit, but the communist organizations responsible were all crushed and we see our rights being taken away ever since because no one is left to defend them. we are scrambling rn to see if we can stop fascism.

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[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I wonder if anyone ever said "Democracy would never work, just look at what happened to Athens".

Socialism and communism are relatively new ideas. While I don't believe communism is an effective form of government, it's still kind of silly to write it off so quickly.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is a poem in Polish, it goes in fast and dirty translation: "Today you scare us with communists, just as years ago, you scared our fathers with the democrat name".

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[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone between 1804 and 1830: Democracy doesn't work, just look at France, it dissolves into an empire

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip -5 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Communism isn't bad, it just crumples as soon you put anything but saints in charge of it.

I'm not entirely sure anything works better in a long-term scenario though :)

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 days ago (54 children)

Seeing some of the zingers in the comments here, now seems like a great time to plug my "Read Theory, Darn it!" introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list. Read up, comrades!

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