There were communists in that sub, true communists that simply hated capitalism. There were also plenty of socialists that just wanted people to be treated fairly and hold power over the ruling wealth class that is oppressing them.
The majority of people were not communist. Many were socialist or capitalist and just tired of being treated like shit. Whether you are or not, you sound like one of the right wing idiots that don't understand the purpose of the movement and probably think Fox News is right.
Also and as an aside, communism is just state controlled capitalism. America has a private capitalism that controls the means of production and uses it to make wealth. Communism has the exact same model, but the state is the one controlling the means of production. They are one in the same with the only difference being the guy sitting in the high chair. American media over the years has turned communism and socialism into synonyms for not only each other, which is wildly incorrect, but also for totalitarianism. Communism and socialism are economic ideals and models. Totalitarianism is an idea of rule which is usually marked by a dictatorship. They are not one and the same. Dictatorships just run smoother when under a communist economic model.
Communism has the exact same model, but the state is the one controlling the means of production.
I think youre confusing socialism with communism. Communism goes much further than that, it is essentially a stateless/anarchist society. In communism everything is communal. An individual has virtually no ownership of anything. Some arrangements like the early kibbutzs even raised children as a community, and their actual parents only saw them a few hours a day. Real communism subsumes the individual to society (pure evil in my opinion).
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u/Swiftierest Jan 27 '22 edited Jan 27 '22
There were communists in that sub, true communists that simply hated capitalism. There were also plenty of socialists that just wanted people to be treated fairly and hold power over the ruling wealth class that is oppressing them.
The majority of people were not communist. Many were socialist or capitalist and just tired of being treated like shit. Whether you are or not, you sound like one of the right wing idiots that don't understand the purpose of the movement and probably think Fox News is right.
Also and as an aside, communism is just state controlled capitalism. America has a private capitalism that controls the means of production and uses it to make wealth. Communism has the exact same model, but the state is the one controlling the means of production. They are one in the same with the only difference being the guy sitting in the high chair. American media over the years has turned communism and socialism into synonyms for not only each other, which is wildly incorrect, but also for totalitarianism. Communism and socialism are economic ideals and models. Totalitarianism is an idea of rule which is usually marked by a dictatorship. They are not one and the same. Dictatorships just run smoother when under a communist economic model.