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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/43662539

[a character is pointing at and berating a strawman made to look like a stereotypical communist]
So, you're a communist right?
Okay then, solve every single problem in the world right now
Create the perfect society, we're watching, you have five minutes
Can't do it? Sounds like your silly ideology is whack then
Tankie!

https://thebad.website/comic/reasonable_request

I hear anti-communist nonsense at work sometimes and this is what it feels like. "Commies tried so many times and it always fails!" (literally ignoring coups and regime changes, AES, that capitalism might kill us all, sex trafficking, etc)

My favorite is when people admit it works in small groups but doesn't scale. It's an amazingly defeatist attitude.

The problem stems from centralization. A commander sits at the top of trillions of people is fundamentally wrong, no matter how good he or she is. No one single human shall have that big of an influence to another human.

But those fucking defeatists are disgusting. No one is asking them to solve the problem. Just shut the fuck up when someone else is solving the problems. That's the least they shall be doing.

Ask these folks if they have a better idea. They never do and always fall back to capitalism, even though we’re all witnessing capitalists fuck up the entire planet. They won’t even entertain the pieces of a whole as good ideas. It’s either all or nothing. They’ve already skewed the argument in their favor because of capitalist propaganda influence.

Communism didn't "fail" so much as it "lost".

Isn't that the majority of what you post on political memes? To be fair to you, that's really all political memes are for, to provoke a response. The meme itself is far less important than the possibility for it to spark a discussion in the comments.

And to be clear, while the dissolution of the Soviet Union was devastating, there are still strong socialist states like China today. Communism didn't lose, it took a major blow temporarily.

To be fair, the idea that someone is supposed to sit at the top of society is a fundamental misunderstanding of socialism past, present, and future.

"It's not perfect, but it's the best system we have." 🥴

It never ceases to amaze me just how incapable the average person seems to be of imagining something better than the status quo.