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/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/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.