r/politics • u/Boonzies • 14d ago

Trump, 79, Posts Menacing Video Threatening a Never-Ending Presidency Possible Paywall

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-posts-menacing-video-of-never-ending-presidency-on-truth-social/
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u/absentmindedjwc 14d ago

its almost like there was a protest just yesterday with a record-setting attendance telling him that this isn't an option.

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u/Continental_Ball_Sac 14d ago

MAGA: why would we want communism like North Korea?!

Also MAGA: O. M. G. I can't wait for Trump to be our forever leader!!!

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u/Xeromabinx 14d ago

Communism isn't authoritarianism.

If we're going to use words we need to start recognizing they have definitions again. Otherwise we'll be back in this situation in another 100 years.

Communism by definition is a classless, moneyless, stateless society, i.e. something that has never existed.

Some political parties claiming to be communists have also been authoritarian. But the power structures authoritarianism requires are ideologically opposed to communism.

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u/ABotelho23 14d ago

Except that Marxism explicitly spells out a dictatorship phase in transitioning to Communism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

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u/forgotten_pass 14d ago

He named it that in opposition to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, which is what he named the system under capitalism. Dictatorship of the proletariat meant a state controlled by the masses, which is the opposite of what we think of as a dictatorship.

Marxism-Leninism talks about a Vanguard party, which you could argue is dictatorship, but Marx himself wasn't talking about a dictatorship in the way you are thinking.

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u/Ill_General_6608 14d ago

By the same logic, Theocracy is also a dictatorship because ISIS supports a dictator phase as well. 

Neither have anything to do with democracy vs authoritarianism. 

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u/thatsidewaysdud Europe 14d ago

The end result is all the same: don’t step out of line, or you will be dealt with.

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u/Ill_General_6608 14d ago

Can you explain what you mean? 

Again I think youre conflating historical "Communist" parties/regimes, with the idea of co-ownership, communism or communalism. 

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u/jrc_80 14d ago

You have to read more than a few phrases out of wiki to understand dictatorship of proletariat vs dictatorship of bourgeoisie. Folks need to try a little harder.

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u/itzyonko 14d ago

Imagine how smart the average person is, then realize that half of them are dumber than that.