“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
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.
No worries! It varies instance by instance, and due to federation/defederation you likely haven’t seen many of us, as feddit.org censors communist instances from your view (other than this one, as it’s technically not communist despite having a lot of us, and since this is the dev test instance).
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.
“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
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?
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.
Is that so? I didn’t find any information on that from a quick search. Not an “attack”, genuinely curious.
Here is dessalines’ github page for essays, and their profile pic is of Che Guevara. Dessalines is the lead dev, and other devs are communists as well. For more, here’s dessalines pinning the basic Marxist-Leninist study guide I made to the c/communism community here.
Cheers! I should have really found that when looking on github, my bad.
No worries! It varies instance by instance, and due to federation/defederation you likely haven’t seen many of us, as feddit.org censors communist instances from your view (other than this one, as it’s technically not communist despite having a lot of us, and since this is the dev test instance).
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.