• AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Okay now you’re conflicting with yourself since you said according to .ml, which leans very heavily tankie. I’ve spent enough time in .ml comment sections to know huge swathes of them have zero problem with authoritarians so long as they’re on the right team. They’re the ones that, when someone else asked about authoritarianism in China, simply said that all states are authoritarian, which, to be fair, isn’t really wrong.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah, that the thing. Socialism is the withering state and Communism is the stateless version.

      It is clear that Cuba is not a stateless society where the people control the means of production.

      Saying Cuba is Communist is nonsensical. Even according to a Communist.

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        2 hours ago

        Communism is the stateless version.

        Statelessness is anarchy practically by definition. Also, by this definition, communism has never been tried at scale, and if you’re getting your definition from .ml, I doubt they’d agree with that.

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          2 hours ago

          communism has never been tried at scale

          Hence why claiming that countries are Communist is so ridiculous to begin with let alone calling Cuba Communist. It is silly, I am not sure they even claim to be Communist themselves other than having the PCC.