• Neato
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    573 months ago

    The idea that the USSR and East Germany were anywhere close to communism is a joke. There were so many offshoots of communism that were just autocracies where the state owned all property that its meaning is pointless now. It’s better to describe then as dictatorships.

    • GladiusB
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      203 months ago

      As much as I agree with your communism comment the same can be said to our democracy. We are a representative democracy and choose people to choose for us.

      • @Wofls@feddit.de
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        93 months ago

        Agreed. Most if not all democracies today are severely flawed. I’d also argue that the wall depicted here has more to do with these flaws than with democracy

        • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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          73 months ago

          ‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

          Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947

      • Neato
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        63 months ago

        Only for the presidential election. All the rest are normal. We’re definitely a representative democracy. Whereas none of the communist countries are anywhere close to Marxist communism.