Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?
E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?
So if the land is not owned by a monarch and 0% is privately owned, it’s not communism?
It’s appalling that people don’t want to claim any government has ever been truly communist because all the ones that claimed to be turned into authoritarian shit shows.
Left and right is about economics. You can have shit on both sides of that. What’s more important/better are those that seek liberty for society. Authoritarians will be left right or both simultaneously if it serves them. ML and fascists being prime examples.
All bad regimes are authoritarian. All good regimes tend to be flat/granular and answerable. Yes that type of thing tends to be mostly on the left, just not exclusively.
This would be like if I said:
And you jumped in and said they may also be afraid of cheese…
They love far right authoritarian regimes, which is what China is.
Like, why did you even make that comment, do you think China is fucking leftwing?
A non-zero amount of people on Lemmy think china is communist and therefore left-wing.
There was a huge exodus of a lot of the content creators from reddit to lemmy. Do you think Lemmy is immune to trolls?
Occams/hanlons razor, imo.
Lots of people are real fuckin dumb.
No True Communism
All bad regimes are right wing. They should be replaced with left wing regimes because they are always good. Counterexamples are not truly left wing.
Words mean things. Do you think the DPRK is democratic, or the Nazis were socialist?
Bro I lived in China, they literally operate a capitalist authoritarian regime.
Who owns the land in Shanghai?
Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?
E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?
So if the land is not owned by a monarch and 0% is privately owned, it’s not communism?
It’s appalling that people don’t want to claim any government has ever been truly communist because all the ones that claimed to be turned into authoritarian shit shows.
Whether China is communist or not, I can’t answer. What China definitely is, is right wing.
If they’re right wing they’re not communist, even under the objectively stupid left wing equals libertarian definition.
Authoritarian left.
Authoritarian right.
Chicken wings!
Gee, I wonder why there’s no actual communist government…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency
Left and right is about economics. You can have shit on both sides of that. What’s more important/better are those that seek liberty for society. Authoritarians will be left right or both simultaneously if it serves them. ML and fascists being prime examples.
All bad regimes are authoritarian. All good regimes tend to be flat/granular and answerable. Yes that type of thing tends to be mostly on the left, just not exclusively.