• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah but that’s communism, so no way it would’ve ever happened. The average American voter thinks they can become billionaires some day.

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      2 days ago

      Does the word communism even have meaning any more, or is it just something to yell when confused people get confused?

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          2 days ago

          I know, I caught the silent /s at the end of your post :) You are referring to people who don’t use it sarcastically - does the word communism have meaning left when they use it?

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            24 hours ago

            Honestly, it might just be creeping closer to “social”. As in, concerning a society. Things like bike lanes and healthcare.

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        23 hours ago

        Communism is a word with different legitimate meanings and it sound like this comment is conflating two of them.

        • The communist movement, guided by the various theories within Marxist schools of thought. [as you can see, there’s a huge range of ideologies in this school of thought, and a few different ones have become ruling governments, and any claiming to be the one true ‘real communism’ are being arrogant and ignorant]

        • Communist society, a society with a socialist mode of production replacing the capitalist mode of production, which those theories are trying to achieve. This has not been accomplished by a post-industrial society.