• leagman1@feddit.org
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    7 months ago

    It’s multi-layered and tedious to write down on the phone. Prolly easier to ask you some questions: How do you think this meme’s formula works? Do you beleive it to be factual that China isn’t authoritarian and that North Korea is not andictatorship? If not, do you know anybody who has ever claimed this?

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      7 months ago

      “Authoritarian” is ALL states. “Authoritarian” as we know it today was just made up by the CIA to slander actually existing socialism states like China and the DPRK

      The DPRK has gotten a particularly HEAVY dose of slander from the empire because of its proximity to its puppet gov of SK

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        7 months ago

        Well… in that case, the meme is at least correctly used. That was my main concern anyways :')

        You must realise you’re holding a very fringe position that’s more a conspiracy theory and will be considered trolling, right?

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          7 months ago

          China and the DPRK being socialist states with functioning democratic structures is the standard take among communists, which is certainly fringe in the west but not everywhere. Especially Lemmy, which was and is developed by communists.

          In China, they have direct elections for local representatives, which elect further “rungs,” laddering to the top. The top then has mass polling and opinion gathering. This combination of top-down and bottom-up democracy ensures effective results. For more on this, see Professor Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance. This system is remarkably effective, resulting in over 90% approval rates.

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          You must realise you’re holding a very fringe position that’s more a conspiracy theory and will be considered trolling, right?

          This is seemingly paradoxical when a real deal conspiracy theory is being mainstream. DPRK being hell on Earth is a conspiracy theory not supported by facts, but it’s not fringe, it’s held by the entire collective western media (though that is more of a 5 corpos in a trenchcoat) and it’s constantly fed to their populations. Information bubbles are real.

          And there are many such cases in topic of communism.