• FloMo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    A lot of Miami-based Cubans are VERY anti anything socialist/communist. All you’ve really got to do is say you’re fighting “those socialists trying to take over” and it’s a tragically easy way to win that vote.

    Source: My own family/life experience growing up in Miami

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      9 months ago

      the biggest flaw in communist theory is the “temporary dictatorship” part…
      it turns out, temporary dictators never willingly stop being dictators…

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        9 months ago

        The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is just a stupid name for the transitional period. It’s not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but unfortunately Marx was a little drama queen from time to time…

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          9 months ago

          No, Marx was right; there’s no way to do it without a dictatorship. There is no universe in which everyone miraculously agrees on how things should be run, and that means that coercion is necessary which in turn means that there has to be centralized and concentrated power, ie; an authoritarian dictatorship.

          The experiment has been run before and we know how it ends.

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            9 months ago

            I think there is a universe where groups of people in specific regions all agree enough on how things should be run. And then, those groups have enough success to help convince other groups and regions to agree. We kind of see this happening now, with countries that have adopted Socialist policies setting examples.

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      9 months ago

      They fled from a country that’s been communist for over 60 years and they’re not big fans of communism you say? Weird.