Cowbee [he/him]

Not really, we have no actual control over policy.

Hexbear and Lemmygrad are the two explicitly Communist instances, and Lemmy.ml has Marxist-Leninist admins (though apparently they claim .ml is because it’s cheap, not for Marxism-Leninism).

I’m a normal, healthy Communist, thank you very much

It’s almost like I’m a Communist or something.

Stay mad.

No, you’re a leach that seeks to endlessly profit off of once-created Value. You aren’t bettering anyone’s lives, you extort them based on their need of shelter. The minor maintenance you do does not entitle you to the vast rent you extract.

Many red fash support the states of North Korea, Russia, China, etc.

“Red-fash” isn’t a thing, except perhaps for PatSocs and MAGA Communists, like the aforementioned American Communist Party. There are Marxists, and Marxists generally defend AES. There are no Marxists who support Russia except in its anti-NATO stance.

Additionally, this doesn’t answer my question. What specifically makes a government authouritarian?

Ofc “real commies” would never support any state.

Are Marx, Engels, and Lenin not “real commies?” I suggest reading The State and Revolution, it’s around 25% Marx and Engels quotes and goes over the Marxist Theory of the State. Specifically, the Marxist position is that the State can’t be abolished overnight, so we must smash the Capitalist state and replace it with a more democratic worker-state that will itself work out contradictions, transitioning from a policing of people to an administration of things, a state-as-not-a-state.

Most identify as anarchists, nihilists, etc. in order to avoid ideology/terminology that’s largely been recuperated by authoritarianism.

Ah, that’s why you didn’t answer the authoritarian question and reject the Marxist analysis of the State, you’re an Anarchist and are trying to claim full ownership of the word “Communism” and reject all of Marxism itself. I suggest reading Marxist theory, not just Goldman and Kropotkin.

Called it.

Generally, “Commie” means Communist, ie a Marxist, not an Anarchist. The US rarely scare-mongers Anarchism, because there hasn’t been a large Anarchist movement that served as a genuine threat at the world stage to the US.

To be fair, most people on Lemmy.world can’t either. The vast majority of people in the west have not read Marx, or if they have done so, they have only read the Communist Manifesto perhaps once. Communism is so thoroughly demonized in the Imperial Core that only a minor fraction have even read Marx, and only a fraction among them have read more than just the CM.

You obviously have not once been operating in good faith, so I stopped engaging.

Trump has pretty specifically called Kamala a Marxist because her dad is a Marxist economist, and Marxism must be genetic I guess

It likely doesn’t function for you either, unless you’re a business owner or landlord

Everyday life is not functioning 👍

My favorite quote from that fuckwad is “Lenin. Leh-neen, as they say.” Dude has no fucking clue

Social programs are not socialism. The covid checks were not socialist.

Those are found in the nordics, that’s still dependent on Capitalism as the basis unless you also want to entirely restructure government.

Social programs are not socialism.

Nope. The USSR obviously wasn’t in the Imperial core.

I do know what communism is, I do not need to read some random book you refer to to “understand”.

So I should read books that communists are talking about?

Evidently you do not understand if you don’t even know what Communists advocate and are unwilling to learn, despite your protests otherwise.

Go get a history book instead or trying to pump up your communism with cozy democracy.

I have, I recommend Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti. Super good book on what did and didn’t work in the USSR, and how it was dissolved, and how the Capitalist aftermath killed 7 million people. Communism is perfectly compatible with democracy because it’s democratic.

Democracy is good, communism is an utopian dream that is very nice but never functions, like anarchism and a bunch of others. But I guess your book says that it can work, like for real this time.

Communism did and does work. Communists are anti-Utopian, they don’t believe there’s a magic system you can just will into existence if everyone believes hard enough, but instead must be built. I suggest reading Socialism: Utopian and Scientific for more information, it goes over the failures of Utopian Socialists like the Owenites and how Marxism is Scientific instead.

You don’t need to answer, we’re on completely different wavelengths here.

Evidently. I advocate for reading and learning about subjects before speaking about them, and you advocate for deliberately not reading lest you be “corrupted” or “indoctrinated.” I have engaged with Liberalism all my life, and don’t consider myself “indoctrinated” by it despite that, so I don’t think reading a single book or two will “indoctrinate” you.

Good luck with your communism though, I’m staying in democracy!

Again, Communism is democratic, just not reformist.

Exactly. The entire electoral system is a great filtering process.