Russia and Putin are not communist.

I suspect most Lemmy users in that thread are democratic socialists, and not full blown communists.

I made a silly comment in that thread that suggested that I’m a communist when I’m more of a democratic socialist.

I could use some more communism in my life, but I don’t consider myself a communist.

Some support communism but no true communist also supports the fascist regimes of Putin or Xi.

I wouldn’t say so, in fact I would suggest maybe it’s disgustingly neoliberal at times.

Also Putin in his own words is not looking to return to Communism he’s looking for a return to Russian imperialism.

Another question. Why does this post have so many down votes? I have some ideas but I am not sure which is the real reason:

1. Asking about generalization could be considered unpopular.
2. Are communists down voting me?
3. Badly written post. (I mean English is not my first language and I do believe lemmy needs more content and I am trying to go out of my comfort zone and be more active user)
4. This topic is just unpopular?

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From what I’ve seen, they’re more democratic socialist than communist. Besides, Russia and China may claim to be communist, but they really are not.

I’m not sure what I consider myself to be, but all I know is that US capitalism has been running rampant and dooming us all, and my current situation involves censorship and oppression under a Chinese dictatorship. Europe is nice, especially Germany and Sweden; I like that, whatever they are.

The main dev of Lemmy is a communist. That doesn’t make everyone here communist. This is an edge community where oversimplified political ideological labels are not applicable. This is a pro community place with a focus on the community without exploitation. That is a community-ist thing. If you’d like to be exploited through stalkerware and data mining to manipulate you for profit, there are plenty of proprietary social platforms out there without any community-ist focus.

Actually read Marx writings before making labels or judgements. You will find that his arguments in the past were much the same as the problems of today. Marx was very much an advocate for democracy. Communism does not mean backwards Russian Bolshevism, and certainly has nothing to do with Putin.

Personally, I’m not for any state involvement in the market. I’m also not a fool. Capitalism is hated by anyone with a tenth of a working brain. The reason for capitalism is that is is the least worst evil. The theoretical separation of governance from the open market enables a mechanism to oust bad actors. The USA is absolutely failing at capitalism. You can not participate in your local market economy, and the market’s consolidated pool of bad actors are directly influencing and manipulating governance. The USA is failing at democracy and capitalism, so maybe have a deep think about idealist principals like Marxism to better understand and reflect upon your own ideals.

This question calls for a jokey response but I’m struggling to think of one. Of course, it’s true that communists tend to have no sense of humor.

Lemmy.world = centrist democrat, it seems to me. It is against the TOS here to talk about the wrong kind of cat food (there was a big drama about that last month) and it tries to be a safe space by blocking everything outside its window (the most informative covid-19 community is on hexbear but you can’t read it here). Lemmy.ml = left wing, “ML” sometimes stands for Marx-Lenin. Lemmygrad is more of a joke(?) but it pretends(??) to be Stalinist.

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