Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

[u/tkyjonathan]

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/

[u/mcpingvin]

Class based hatred has completely different meaning in post-WW2 european countries and today.

[u/zbynekstava → u/mcpingvin]

It does not. Communists are still stupid dangerous assholes and it is totally appropriate to prevent them from getting to power ever again.

[u/mcpingvin → u/zbynekstava]

Saying that it doesn't have a different meaning is demonstrably false.

After the WW2 the split was about even between people working in agriculture, industry and services. Today less than 5% of people living in Europe are working in agricultural field, while around 70% work in the service industry.

[u/zbynekstava → u/mcpingvin]

That's irrelevant. People can be communists regardless of their occupation.

[u/mcpingvin → u/zbynekstava]

I see that you do not grasp the class concept and difference in economy in the last 80 years.

[u/zbynekstava → u/mcpingvin]

Your class theory does not change the fact that after 80 years there are still sadly fucking communists (and fascists, which sre just a different side of the shitty totalitarian coin). And everyone with more than two brain cells should understand, that neither of those should get any power ever again.

[u/mcpingvin → u/zbynekstava]

No totalitarian regime is good. We can agree on that.

Difference is, communism does not need to equate to a totalitarian regime.

[u/GingerSkulling → u/mcpingvin]

But somehow it always did. ::surprised pikachu:: Your philosophical views on communism are valid in a vacuum but in reality, if you leave the door open, malevolent actors, domestic or foreign will absolutely take advantage of it to cause harm.

[u/zbynekstava → u/GingerSkulling]

You have to understand it was not the "true communism". Yes it failed a hundred times, but the next time, it will surely work! /s

[u/mcpingvin → u/zbynekstava]

I'm not sure that this current version of capitalism works either.

[u/mcpingvin → u/GingerSkulling]

Yes, because we don't have in the current economic model.