• @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    69 months ago

    you do realize china is a capitalist dictatorship, and the soviet union was also turned into a dictatorship, right?

    Pointing at dictatorships and acting like they’re some amazing gotcha for an ideology they claim to follow is something even elementary grade school kids realize is dumb.

    • @Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      China wasn’t capitalist under Mao.

      And yeah that’s kinda my point. You cannot have socialism without a dictatorship. That’s like explicitly in Marx’s writings. The term is dictatorship of the proletariat.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

      It’s a fundamental cornerstone of Marxism. A dictatorship with a monopoly on force is necessary to transition from a capitalist society to a communist society by forcibly seizing the means of production and using force to prevent counterrevolution.

      The problem is that once you give that dictatorial power to a state, you can’t get it back.