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.
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.
[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 1 point 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.
[–] Broc_Lia [S] 0 points 2 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.