[slt2021]

How come people who never lived under commie regime claim to know more about communism than the people who actually lived under commie regimes?

Did you obtain you theoretical knowledge of what actual communism is - purely from Lenin's books? Have you tried to reconcile communism theory to communism in practice?

[defrost]

As I recall Lenin didn't think actual communism was obtainable without a long period of enforced socialism .. so the regime under Lenin was never actual communism (at least according to Lenin) and not especially socialist other than in name by Lenin.

In any case it segued into Stalinism .. and all of these were oppressive authoritarian top down rule.

People that think of post revolution Russia as a good example of communism are the kind of people that think of the USofA as a good example of capitalism.

[throw93]

"people who never lived under commie regime" - I get to hear this so often. We live in under a capitalist regime where 1% of the people own the rest of the population. Basic human needs like healthcare and shelter are paywalled by big corporations. Do you sincerely think wasting your life to make those 1% even more richer is somehow better than communism?

Btw, I didn't even claim that communism is the best way forward, you just assumed it. I would rather advocate for socialism which has better chances to succeed in US. Still, the moment we wave off 10k from student loans people start shouting "communism". Those same people got millions of dollars in PPP loans, still fired their employees and saw nothing wrong with it.

The main context here was about unions and people still cry "communism" whenever they hear the word union. I have seen immense benefits of unions from past generation and feel sad that they are not as prevalent today. "United we bargain, divided we beg" is the whole point of unions and still people choose to beg because "big bad communism". This propaganda has been enforced on us so much by govt that we forget what's good for us and that makes me sad.