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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't think anyone is advocating for literal communism. They are advocating for social programs like, you know, universal healthcare and good public schools. Which the Gop and Fox have to scream is communism to scare people.

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are definitely people advocating for actual communism. Social programs in a democracy are worlds away from communism. We have universal healthcare in Europe without communism.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are definitely people advocating for actual communism.

No I really don't think there are. If there are then it's incredibly, incredibly, minisculy few, but the gop and Fox have to portray that it's the entire democratic party.

Social programs in a democracy are worlds away from communism.

That's the whole point of what I'm saying. Social programs are worlds away, but the gop and Fox have to conflate everything to call it communism in order to have a bogeyman.

We have universal healthcare in Europe without communism.

Again, that's the whole point of what I'm saying. Social programs like universal healthcare? The Gop and Fox call it communism to scare people. I know it's not, you know it's not, but the gop and Fox scream loudly enough that it's communism that they scare enough people to get their votes.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

This take comes from a place of assuming there will be a government of the state that wields all the power and controls everything.

That is totalitarianism, not communism.

The capital owners don’t want to you take the means of production from them. They don’t want you to have a fair wage, they want you to slave away to keep them rich.

They want totalitarianism for them.