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[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 12 points 1 year ago (66 children)

I mean the big ones people like to point at (Rushia and fucking Nazi Germany) sure as shit weren't doing communism or socialism

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@midwest.social 45 points 1 year ago (58 children)

I don't think anyone points at Nazi Germany as an example of a leftist system. They were literally fascist lol

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Both Crowder and Shapiro have claimed this. They point out that the Nazi party was the 'National Socialist German workers' party' and claim that's enough for it to be socialist, and then also claim Russia is a communist country.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The USSR was a communist country. A normal use of that term is that a country communist is one that's run by a communist party.

If you mean it didn't achieve communism, well duh communism is a hypothesized society achieved through socialism where the state ceases to exist. No socialists, including the people of the USSR, would think that their nation-state has achieved communism as that's oxymoronic. They would think of it as a transitional socialist state.

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