I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down

  • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    2 months ago

    Thats… kind of the opposite of socialism. Socialism, at least the ideal form, is when the ‘workers hold the means of production’, with no figure heads. This is closer to authoritarianism, with a charismatic leader commanding people to do things.

    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
      133·
      2 months ago

      See this just reads as a complete misunderstanding of what communism is. The word Communism is derived from the word Commune, in which there is traditionally no standard power structure. Too much red scare propaganda. To me of the most prevalent feelings of authoritarianism in my life has been the boss/underling dynamic in the workplace under capitalism.

      I’m pro communist economics and pro democratic governance. There is a reason the movement here in the US is towards “democratic socialism”, because they are two separate facets of a country. The governance (democratic) and the economic (socialism).

      I’m a democratic Communist

      • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        I’m not sure if you are saying what i said (that someone in charge sending his minions to harass someone is closer to authoritarianism), or him is a misunderstanding of communism.

        I definitely should have used the word “communism” in my sentence, but since he used socialism, I didn’t want to change the subject from socialism to communism.

        Being from Canada, and a huge proponent of social services and crown corporations, I’m definitely a socialist myself.

        • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          2 months ago

          I think there was a misunderstanding based on the context of the post above? Sorry. I thought you were talking about my views as being authoritarian.

          Edit: dumb voice to text software

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        55·
        2 months ago

        Nothing you’ve said seems objectionable, I can’t imagine what set them off.

        Do you consider the party apparatus of say, Cuba, where every position is elected and has instant recall, and their last constitutional referendum passed with 90%+ approval, to be democratic?

        • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          2 months ago

          I would definitely want more parties in Cuba on the governance side. One party is ripe for abuse. Generally the more the marrier.

          Right now I think thier government is too large. Large isn’t necessarily bad, but a government should only IMO be as large as it needs to be to help its population. Of course on a political compass, I’m more on the libertarian end in terms of governance.

          I think the economics of Cuba would be better if the US would stop senseless embargo.

          Again, ideally we want strong communist economic and social fabric AND a thriving democracy to pick leadership. I think they are struggling on the latter.

          Of course my perspective is the strict embargos are in place solely because the US really doesn’t want communism to work. If it worked somewhere, then it makes US capitalism look quite bad.