• rapchee@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    no it wasn’t, at least according to marx, who they claimed to follow
    the stage BEFORE communism was the dictatorship of the proletariat, which they decided was extended, and they were representing the will of the people
    so it actually never got to communism

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      But it did… and that’s the joke.

      There is no “end stage” communism or capitalism that fits their own purity tests; they are both ideals that we haven’t managed to accomplish as a society, ever.

      So, as far as humanity is concerned, what results in the attempt to reach that ideal is communism/capitalism as we know it (not as we imagine it will be at some point in future).

    • teslasaur@lemmy.world
      211·
      2 days ago

      All forms of larger scale attempts at communism ends with dictatorship. There is no other practical way to enforce the “correct way” of existing within the human species. Correct according to who? Religion is pretty similar to communism in that way. There is either a God/king that expresses what you are allowed to do, or a written text that is followed at the moral guideline.