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[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well I have to admit I only started reading up about him after this before that I didnt know shit about him either.

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[–] Broc_Lia [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I read a book by Jung Chang about her experiences growing up, which was a bit of an eye opener, which lead to other books and, well, I really have to wonder why we had several chapters of our history book devoted to hitler and only a photograph/subtitle of mao saying he was the leader of china.

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[–] xxHikari ago 

Funny thing is when I lived in China, all of my friends thought he was great for China and made them prosper. Pretty sure they didn't teach them about the cultural revolution or anything like that. Otherwise, what else could you possibly think of that fuck?

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[–] Mylon ago 

Communism gets a lot of shit thanks to Mao. Really they were just more of the same oligarchs operating under a new label than anything actually resembling communism.

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[–] Broc_Lia [S] ago 

Well... this is the thing. If efforts to produce communism through socialism (like the USSR and PRC) end up producing oligarchy, then has it really been given a bad name? Or has it earned it?

Like... there are a few communist communities here and there which work ok, but I don't think any of them were created via a political campaign.

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[–] Mylon ago 

If the environment that typically spawns communism is capitalism that has fucked up so hard that people decide they've had enough and start a revolution (which, like most revolutions ends up being redirected) into a shitty form of communism, is that communism earning a bad name or is that capitalism earning a bad name?

This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum and you can't blame the effect without looking at the cause.