• Smaile@lemmy.ca
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    Marx would likely be appalled by most any authoritarian communist regime.

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      Almost like they don’t actually represent communist ideals at all or something…

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      It’s the basic human tendency to take an unbiased ideology, broadcast an unintended interpretation to generate a following, then build a cult that puts them in power.

      The oldest trick in the book. And it sadly works, nearly every time.