• 4am@lemmy.zip
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      20 hours ago

      Stop pretending that Russia is communist. Russia wasn’t even communist when it was the USSR, it sure as shit ain’t communist now

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        10 hours ago

        Okay but he didn’t say they were, the word Comrade is hundreds of years old and derived from Latin, though Marx and later the USSR and China (neither of which countries are communist) all incentivize(d) “Comrade” as it didn’t have the hierarchical connotations that Senor, Monsieur, and Mister all have being derived from titles of authority.

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          19 hours ago

          Why are you comparing an economic concept and a form of representation concept

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            17 hours ago

            Because Soviet communism, and most national implementations of communism around the world, are a combination of system of government and economic model

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        19 hours ago

        What was that whole collective farming thing they were trying at then? I know Stalin was just taking advantage of the whole thing, but Kruschev et al were definitely trying at socialism, albeit failing miserably.

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        19 hours ago

        Okay, but then we also have to stop pretending that the USA is a democracy.

        It’s just as much of a distortion of the terms