Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?message-squaremessage-square290linkfedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11message-squareELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square290linkfedilink
minus-squareRestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoThere used to be a country called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics It was built on the principles of socialism It turns out that actually living in a socialist state is oppressive to the point where millions upon millions were starved because that was what was needed to give socialism the chance to take off in a capitalist world.
minus-squareStupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoTell me you’re an American without telling me you’re an American. Next up: The Nazis were socialist, it’s in the name!
minus-squareRestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoI don’t read many books on fucking, but I read quite a bit of history. Maybe try some. Of course it’s easier to thump your chest on the internet if you gas light people and make ad hominem attacks.
minus-squarevga@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-225 days agoGood idea! Books are great. Here are some great classics. https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893 https://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-Holocaust-Miron-Dolot/dp/0393304167 https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087 https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Farm-George-Orwell/dp/0451526341 Have you read them already?
minus-squareStupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoTheir latest comment only adds to the list of things they obviously don’t understand. I hope they have a library card.
There used to be a country called the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
It was built on the principles of socialism
It turns out that actually living in a socialist state is oppressive to the point where millions upon millions were starved because that was what was needed to give socialism the chance to take off in a capitalist world.
Tell me you’re an American without telling me you’re an American.
Next up: The Nazis were socialist, it’s in the name!
Read a fucking book
I don’t read many books on fucking, but I read quite a bit of history.
Maybe try some.
Of course it’s easier to thump your chest on the internet if you gas light people and make ad hominem attacks.
Good idea! Books are great. Here are some great classics.
https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893
https://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-Holocaust-Miron-Dolot/dp/0393304167
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087
https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Farm-George-Orwell/dp/0451526341
Have you read them already?
Their latest comment only adds to the list of things they obviously don’t understand. I hope they have a library card.