• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    China wasn’t capitalist under Mao.

    And yeah that’s kinda my point. You cannot have socialism without a dictatorship. That’s like explicitly in Marx’s writings. The term is dictatorship of the proletariat.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

    It’s a fundamental cornerstone of Marxism. A dictatorship with a monopoly on force is necessary to transition from a capitalist society to a communist society by forcibly seizing the means of production and using force to prevent counterrevolution.

    The problem is that once you give that dictatorial power to a state, you can’t get it back.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t debate reality with commies because they don’t live in reality.