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AntiFascist

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3. I understand the attraction of the ideals of Communism...

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 26, 2025, 06:20 PM

Jun 2025

I'm just referring to the modern realities of how Communist societies operate and how the Soviet Union operated. If Marxist prophecy comes true, it will be at the hands of those oligarchs who are corrupting capitalism.

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Trump is much more of a Communist than any leftist politician... [View all] AntiFascist Jun 2025 OP

I don't think that word means what you think it means n/t leftstreet Jun 2025 #1

I understand the attraction of the ideals of Communism... AntiFascist Jun 2025 #3

LOL n/t leftstreet Jun 2025 #4

Communism markodochartaigh Jun 2025 #2

Has the egalitarian socialist economic component ever been fully realized? AntiFascist Jun 2025 #5

I think that the corruption is usually by outside forces markodochartaigh Jun 2025 #6

I agree with your post... AntiFascist Jun 2025 #7

That's what Moonshine just said earlier today Polybius Jun 2025 #8

I saw that after I posted! n/t AntiFascist Jun 2025 #9