"If communism isn't inherently authoritarian then why are all the existing communist countries so authoritarian?"
"If communism isn't inherently authoritarian then why are all the existing communist countries so authoritarian?"
Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism:
The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.
For the still meme confused: Survivorship bias
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why are people downvoting this?
Perhaps because they take exception to characterizing all of the Actually Existing Socialisms as “authoritarian” in the first place, and I’d agree with them. It leans into “horseshoe theory” and the anticommunist Western Left’s conceptualization of “totalitarianism.”
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perhaps they think you can vote imperialism away
Because they're brats with no ability to self reflect and be realistic
Downvoting exists now?
Hexbear and lemmy.blahaj.zone are the only two instances I know that don’t have downvoting enabled. People can still downvote from other instances, but those two instances simply just won’t see those votes.
Beehaw has it disabled too.
Because it makes communists/socialists seem weak and mentally frail.
This is not at all a persuasive argument. It's suspicious because first it says "everyone says that communism is authoritarian because all currently communist countries are ruled by autocrats" which is like, yeeeaaah go on....
"well that pattern doesn't exist for the obvious reason. In fact, if you take the conceit of the Surviving Bomber, then you'll surely recognize that this is ACTUALLY the work of evil silent actors, like you, sabotaging our normally infinitely resilient and adaptable form of governing people, haha right?!?!?!"
It arouses the same skepticism a Jehovah's Witness or Scientologist does: slightly off-putting, slightly un-sound.