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Existence of the state is incompatible with Communism (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every country is a mixed economy. Capitalism/Communism as ideology is dumb (like most ideologies). The closest to a fully capitalist country was probably Somalia in the 90s.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

How dare you make this not black and white!

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish everyone would embrace this view so we could start talking implementation details instead of the endless ideological warfare. These capitalists and communists might as well just make a fucking church out of it already, so much dogma.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have gotten into it with tankies on lemmy.ml on this topic at length. If you are only criticizing historical communism or historical capitalism then you are guaranteed to be fighting a strawman. These ideologies are not even fixed or singular even within the source material, much less in practice. Yet so many people seem unable or unwilling to even engage on conversation about first principles if it doesn't cleanly fit inside their geopolitical head cannon.