Ever heard of those folks they found in the wild parts of Russia in the late 70s who never even realized the Second World War happened?

Fucking life goals there

Now with suicide nets!

you must be confused, that's the empire of japan and occupied korea that have giant suicide rates. booming western societies.

To be fair, being good enough isn't the only reason for something to be in current use.

oh boy liberal world comin out strong with the RuZziA BaD trope 🤣

As one would expect in a capitalist oligarchy.

projection

What this have anything to do with the meme?

identical apartments

Under Communism, we were forced by the government to live in Poor People Houses. It was illegal to tip your landlords. If you updated your wallpaper, the local Commissar would murder your first-born child and eat your dog.

Incredible.

Ussr can do good thing. Can also do bad thing.

Problem with bad things, like bad arguments, lack thought or think about self. Also call self reflection.

Ask self, apartments good, yes. Ask self, stalin good, on whole probably not. Ask self, authoritarianism good, on whole no is bad. Ask self, shit posting on lemmy good, depends.

Ask self, authoritarianism good, on whole no is bad. Ask self, shit posting on lemmy good, depends.

name a non-authoritarian country

Lol I wouldn't brag on the blocs comrade, there are many problems with them.

How so?

What would the absence of 'authoritarianism' be called?

Maybe I'm just bitter about the boatload of money I paid for repairs only for the fucking elevator to work only 3 months of the year. I was on floor 13. I remember similar complaints from others.

It's true, this is a much better solution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tent_cities_in_the_United_States

The term authoritarianism is utterly meaningless because all governments rely on coercion to maintain their authority. The state is fundamentally an instrument that’s used by the ruling class to maintain its dominance. The whole notion that political systems can be neatly categorized into authoritarian or democratic binaries is deeply infantile.

The reality is that every government derives its authority from its monopoly on legal violence. The ability to enforce laws, suppress dissent, and maintain order is derived from control over police, military, and judicial systems. Whether a government is labelled authoritarian or democratic, the fundamental basis of its power lies here. Therefore, the only meaningful questions to ask are which class interests it represents, and to what extent can it be held accountable to them.

What ultimately matters is which class controls the institutions of state violence. In capitalist democracies, the government represent the interests of the economic elites who fund political campaigns, own media outlets, and control key industries. Western public lacks the mechanisms necessary to hold the government to account, and the ruling class is disconnected from the broader population. That’s precisely what’s driving political discontent all across western sphere today.

Ask yourself is guzzling western propaganda uncritically good, on the whole no is bad.

One has nothing to do with the other? I thought we were talking about blocs.

I mean, either you have a state that actually spend the resources to house people, or you get that.

IDK

They wore clothes woven from homegrown hemp, used birch bark for shoes, and routinely faced near-starvation (the mother, Akulina, starved to death during a crop failure in 1961).

Every government is authoritarian, so the logical solution would be to abolish government altogether.

Signed,
An anarchist

How's that working out for y'all?

Why are you writing like that? I looked at your profile; you've shown in other places you can write a coherent sentence. So is this some kind of affectation? What are you trying to convey by pretending to be illiterate?

Flip side to the dudes in the Pacific who were still hunkered down

ohh, how cute, 5 year old learnt to use the internet.

Capitalists aren't going to let you abolish their rule without an organized violence that they will tell others is "authoritarian".

I’ll take my chances. Plus those clothes and shoes sound durable and cheap.

Yeah no shit. Literally everything has ups and downs. The USSR just got through a world war against a power that was trying to genocide and colonise their land. Entire cities were destroyed. Millions were made homeless. Commie blocks were a good thing and yet they're shat on. Like what else were they meant to do?

You mean a revolution? In that case, I can agree with all but the very last word.

"Authoritarian" is (generally speaking) a word used to describe governments' usage of violence or other means to either establish or maintain rule over their populace.

The capitalist class (or, more generally speaking speaking, the powerful elite) will more often use terms like "barbarians," "rioters," or similar language. They will reserve the word "authoritarian" as a separate method of propaganda to go to war with countries they want to steal natural resources from or to otherwise invade to expand their empire, though I'm not a historian by any means, so the idea of "regieme change" might be a bit newer than I'm thinking.

despite all their issues, they are preferable to homelessness

Absolutely

I thought that was the China Foxconn propaganda: “they work 23 hour days and they are all 8 years old and they had to put suicide nets on the buildings because they try to flee out the windows from the men with whips like rats from a sinking ship and their skin rots off from chemical exposure because China man too stupid for safety gear and too cheap, all money in communist society goes to the bosses and the elites while the people starve, anyway they built ghost cities for show and they’ll be BANKRUPT AND GONE in 10 years time” he confidently posted from the west

“A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?”

― Frederick Engels

Is there a real world example of the bourgeois specifically calling revolutionairies authoritarian, or is that limited to theory?

Western media regularly calls China and DPRK authoritarian.

the Faircloth Limit as an amendment to the Housing Act of 1937, which limited funding for the construction or operation of all units to the total number of units as of October 1, 1999 and repealed a rule that required one for one replacement of demolished housing units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_United_States

Those are governments/countries and not at all what I'm talking about. I'm talking about an organization of people attempting a revolution on their own government.

Oh, they cultivate anarchists domestically to do that.

Define what you mean by anarchist, because we may have very different definitions of the word.

When I say anarchist, I mean those who believe in the philosophical ideals of anarchism, which could manifest in many different forms, but all have one common thread, being having the ideal of the abolition of heirarchy in society (which makes something like AnCap not anarchy despite its name).

Yup, that's the definition.

You confused commieblock with US Navy carrier.

The Soviet onion was horrible, but those are the few quite good things.

During great depression, they were called Hoovervilles. I say we bring it back, call them Trumpvilles

What would you say the difference is between soviet and western onions?

Honestly, the “commie blocks” are really good idea and should be built more often in areas with high homelessness and housing issues. Why should US taxes go to blowing up elementary schools/other people’s homes when it can go towards building homes and helping others in need?

Nobody's stopping you, or Darwin

It just looks like ugliness is the point. Grow some fruit trees or community gardens or something so we don't need to be surrounded by concrete and empty patches of grass.

The Soviet one is when no iPhone or something

I'm just here for the comments...

Which the government's supporters will promptly call you authoritarian for doing.