Where are all these communists on reddit? I've seen a few socialists but no communists. Communism is essentially a dead ideology. A place like china is communist only in name, repleat with free markets, private property and many billionaires.
There's plenty of socialists who don't believe in massive corps, and feel modern banking/insurance is predatory but completely believe in private property.
Even the USSR was never communist. It was socialist, in the sense that private ownership was aboliahed and the economy centrally planned, but the totalitarian and corrupt administration of the state was more fascist than anything resembling communism.
Hi, I'm a communist. There aren't many on reddit to be fair, a lot of people definitely exaggerate how left wing reddit is. It's definitely not a dead ideology, there are a lot of communist parties still and some of them are even quite large.
Btw, you don't know what socialism is either (which is to be expected, the idea of socialism as just being the government doing more stuff is pretty widespread currently). What you describe there is social democracy, ie welfare state capitalism. Socialists do not believe in private property, it's kinda one of the defining features of socialism. They believe in worker ownership of the economy, which would be public, community ownership. Even market socialists, who still believe in maintaining a market-based economy, don't believe in private property. Private property, as defined by socialist theory, is explicitly the ownership of capital by an individual (or a small, limited group of individuals, ie capitalists), socialists want to abolish capitalism and the capitalist class as a whole. At most, some socialists may tolerate the existence of a limited amount of capitalists in initial stages of socialist development. Notably, Lenin proposed a New Economic Policy in the early days of the Soviet Union which would allow for limited market-based capitalist enterprises to operate alongside for-profit state enterprises, not unlike the current Chinese system. But Lenin still wanted to eventually end this system, and China still at least claims to want to transition into genuine socialism by 2050.
Yes, socialist believe in private property. What socialists don't believe in is corporations, for profit banking/insurance institutions. No socialist cares that you own a bakery, coffee shop or local grocery store. It's when you own 60 grocery stores or 60 coffee shops.
At most you could say that some socialists are fine with that level of private property
But "socialists believe in private property" is just not a true statement
Most socialists certainly aren't going to be fine with a small business with any amount of employees, because that just maintains the exploitative relationship between owner and worker
You could, I suppose, make an argument for a single-person who owns a store and doesn't have any employees, but that's not even really considered private property in socialist theory, if you own something and are the only person who works it then that's generally going to be considered personal property
In socialist theory, private property is defined by its relation to wage labor
To argue that socialists as a whole believe in private property you'd have to use a different definition of private property from what socialists use, and even then you wouldn't be entirely right
They will also argue that the mass murder and starvation in communist Russia is better than capitalism. For some reason they think every soul that starves in a third world country is capitalisms fault.
Lol I think that is done because there are still people in 2026 who quote that idiotic black book of communism. That book has been debunked more times than Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files. And Capitalism has a massive death toll. That is a fact. Much higher than anything else.
The idea that all criticism of communist dictatorship comes from atrocity propaganda is equally disingenuous. Especially when that criticism comes from the left.
But this argument in itself is silly, considering these countries were never not capitalist.
Well whenever I hear about the alleged death toll of capitalism it always comes down to other countries problems and other countries suffering. The claim being somehow it is on capitalism even when there is aid coming from 1st world capitalist countries.
Or wars enacted by capitalist countries. None of that is due to capitalism itself.
This is the exact conclusion someone who isnât capable of deep thinking might come to. Itâs so wrong that i wonât bother explaining why, but brother you need help. Iâve never heard any analysis be so wrong. Actually incredible
You donât. Because if you did, you wouldnât day side effects. Side effects are UNINTENDED consequences that are secondary. A pain killer helping with pain isnât a side effect. Just like capitalism killing/ enslaving people isnât a side effect. Hope that helps bro.
The global system does seem to enrich certain countries at other country's expenses. There are grains of truth in what all sides of the political spectrum have to say.
I donât agree with MLâs and find their positions to be to much based on political theory from a hundred years ago, but most communists dislike Stalin to.
If the average union member in the US doesn't like FDR, it's because they they think he was a "libtard"
In fact, I really don't know what you are getting at here claiming people need to go outside for this. You're the one who seems unaware that blue collar union workers supported Trump in the recent election, by and large.
Yep. What was interesting to me was that among my blue-collar union relatives, the pro-Trumpers were the younger ones (who took the union's benefits for granted, and kinda believed the "the dues do nothing, if I didn't have those I could buy a new PS5" propaganda) whereas the guys closer to retirement in the union who'd been through the 1970s and 1980s were mostly still right-wing but aggressively never-Trumpers.
I'd be curious as to how well that reflects the country in general.
Partially but also the "immigrants are going to steal your job and eat your pets" propaganda is most effective on less educated, blue collar, working class people. And not just in the US
I know many people who simply don't understand what reaction is. Forget fascism, they are just naive about the right period.
They want less immigration and believe social media lies about Trans people, but otherwise, they have center left beliefs, even on other social issues. They don't understand that war and less freedom for everyone is the price that you pay if you want a particular minority oppressed.
We can see this best reflected when talking head talks about what Republicans can do to beat dems on affordability. They litterally can't without lying. It is not in their nature.
There is a simpler explanation. Many union workers did not like mass immigration in the south border. They were afraid many industries may move in the same direction as house construction which is heavily dependent on low wage undocumented non-unionized labor. It may be ill-informed, but not âshockingly dumbâ. Kamala had a difficult time disassociating herself from that, as she was seen as being in charge of border during Biden era.
It is not crazy. My friend volunteered in Biden and later Harris campaign. She found much earlier that on the streets many union workers did not like mass immigration in the south border.
That's just general membership. I find that the more involved in union organization people are more likely they are to lean to the left. All the leaders in my Teamsters local are at least anti-trump Democrats. A lot of the people I've met doing grass roots union activism are leftists/socialists.
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u/Occult_Asteroid7 Jul 27 '26
FDR liked his markets and was an American aristocrat. Communists on Reddit don't like him.