It may have come from a hole in the ground. It may have come from the Pentagon. It may have come little green men from Mars. What are you smoking?

If Dessalines is receiving money from the Chinese or other fascist government to develop the Lemmy sourcecode

What kind of moldy McCarthyite garbage is this? If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike.

There is not well-documented evidence. There is garbage, Cold War II propaganda “evidence” from Adrian Zenz and from US-backed regime change non-governmental organizations.

A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

That’s what happens when the communists are purged and billions of propaganda dollars are spent over generations to erase their memory: you end up with Newspeak, where people don’t know their asses from their elbows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare

The more you know.

Even NATOPedia thinks they’re synonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie

The only time they’re not synonyms is when the capitalist class finds kayfabe democracy insufficient, at which point they deploy fascism. That’s what’s been developing in many Western capitalist states around the world in recent years. The working class is more and more agitated by their deteriorating conditions under neoliberalism. Even the petit bourgeois feel threatened. The far-right surge isn’t organic, though: the capitalist class fuels it to maintain their position.

There is a euphemism for dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and it is bourgeois democracy.

I don’t really think you’ve captured communism: Cuba isn’t.

Communism has never yet been achieved, as any communist government will tell you. Socialism is a transitionary step toward communism. You can’t go to bed in a capitalist state and magically wake up to a classless, stateless society.

China has been moving away from communism for decades.

If you think that then you have not been paying attention to what’s been happening in China for the last decade.

Russia rejected the Communists for the Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks were the communists! Come on. Maybe pick up Wikipedia or an even better wiki on the topic: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

The phrase is whittle it down.

Not OP, but I’ll take a stab at it.

In your opinion, are worker cooperatives operating in a market economy socialist?

That’s not really how it works. The fundamental question is: is the state capitalist, meaning a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, or is it socialist, meaning a dictatorship of the proletariat? While you can have a worker coop in a capitalist state, you’d still fundamentally be under the boot of the capitalist class that controls the state at the expense of the working class.

And do you consider any countries today socialist?

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Actually_Existing_Socialism

If you’ve never lived in a communist state you’re much more likely to favour communism. People who have (lived in communism) don’t.

• Gallup, 2013: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm From Breakup
• Pew Research, 2017: In Russia, nostalgia for Soviet Union and positive feelings about Stalin
• United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• Newsweek, 2022: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans

Given your false reports to the authorities, it seems you like authoritarianism after all.

If you’re really upset by it you can filter lemmy.ml which is gonna be the main source of left wing posting.

That’s true for you, anyway, because your instance is defederated from lemmygrad and hexbear.

Communists believe that socialism is a transitional state from capitalism to communism, but 1) communists aren’t the only socialists and 2) a lot of Americans think milquetoast social safety net capitalist reformers like Bernie Sanders are socialists despite them never calling for the abolition of private ownership of the means of production.

Those states would agree that they have not achieved communism, and they would agree that they are authoritarian, namely the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin, 1917, The State and Revolution

Your genocide assertion I won’t touch because it’s untouchable on lemmy.world.

Show me a single comment on Hexbear or lemmy.ml or lemmygrad that promotes nazbols or patsocs or MAGA communists or LaRouchites like Dugin or Hinkle or Haz or Maupin.

Jamie Zawinski (“jwz”):

• https://mastodon.social/@jwz/112344682384275119
• https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/i-see-no-way-this-could-possibly-go-wrong-2/

I see no way this could possibly go wrong

Pictured here: Twitter founder Biz Stone checks in to his new position on the Mastodon board of directors:

“The board was selected based on the values they share with Mastodon.”

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

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I’m simply quoting lemmy.ml’s rule 1 in its entirety. I wrote “4” in error.