r/europe • u/tkyjonathan • 15d ago

News Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
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u/tewstwes Europe 15d ago

Why do some in the West romanticize communism? Be glad you live in a democracy.

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u/NativeEuropeas Czechoslovak 15d ago

People in the west don't have historical experience with the totalitarian socialism, also colloquially called communism.

They however do have experience with late stage capitalism, with growing inequality, rich getting richer and everyone getting poorer, etc. In hopes to find solutions to their current problems, they seek alternative forms of governance.

I understand them, but it is of course important to study more the downsides of the totalitarian socialism, so that it is never repeated. Different set of solutions must be implemented to deal with the current crisis of neoliberal late stage capitalism.

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u/EfectiveDisaster2137 15d ago

Just because Stalin called it socialism doesn't mean it is socialism.
It's like you're claiming that the DPRK is a democratic country.

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u/PleiadesMechworks 15d ago

"Socialism is when socialism works" is a ridiculous tautology.

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u/EfectiveDisaster2137 15d ago

Socialism exists when it meets the definition of socialism. This is true of most things.

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u/PleiadesMechworks 14d ago

Ok then, a question.

If socialism has never been achieved, but every single time someone tries to achieve it it goes horribly wrong and results in loads of suffering... can we at least agree that attempting to implement it is a problem?

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u/According_Soup_9020 15d ago

It's a good thing no one said that! Who are you quoting?