I thought we were all trying to get away from politics.

First of all, why would you think that? Second of all, everything is political so that is literally impossible. And third of all, only centrists who want things to stay exactly as they are, because they feel they are are benefiting from the status quo, ever say such things.

It may have come from a hole in the ground. It may have come from the Pentagon. It may have come little green men from Mars. What are you smoking?

If Dessalines is receiving money from the Chinese or other fascist government to develop the Lemmy sourcecode

What kind of moldy McCarthyite garbage is this? If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike.

That’s not how Russian oligarchs originally became oligarchs. They did it the same way it’s always done in neolocolonized countries: by being compradors to predatory foreign states and capitalists.

The west is legit afraid of Russia’s collapse because once again someone will have to bail Russia out

Yeah… that’s not what happened at all. What happened was the Western capitalist neocolonial plundering of the post-Soviet states through neoliberal shock therapy. And that’s why the US especially hates Putin: he kicked the plunderers out of Russia, interrupting their plundering.

If Ukraine murdered civilians of a specific ethnicity indiscriminately

Not so hypothetical.

• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Guardian, 2014: Cluster bombs used in eastern Ukraine, says human rights group
• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Atlantic Council, 2016: Europe’s Forgotten War: Fighting in the Donbas Has Never Stopped
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• UN, 2018: As Civilians Bear Brunt of Four-year-old Conflict in Ukraine, Continued Ceasefire Violations Test Credibility of Global Community, Officials Warn Security Council
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine

There is not well-documented evidence. There is garbage, Cold War II propaganda “evidence” from Adrian Zenz and from US-backed regime change non-governmental organizations.

A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

Thanks, BASIC, for teaching me so much I had to later unlearn in order to not be a garbage programmer.

That's what happens when the communists are purged and billions of propaganda dollars are spent over generations to erase their memory: you end up with Newspeak, where people don’t know their asses from their elbows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare

The more you know.

Even NATOPedia thinks they’re synonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie

The only time they’re not synonyms is when the capitalist class finds kayfabe democracy insufficient, at which point they deploy fascism. That’s what’s been developing in many Western capitalist states around the world in recent years. The working class is more and more agitated by their deteriorating conditions under neoliberalism. Even the petit bourgeois feel threatened. The far-right surge isn’t organic, though: the capitalist class fuels it to maintain their position.

There is a euphemism for dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and it is bourgeois democracy.

I don’t really think you’ve captured communism: Cuba isn’t.

Communism has never yet been achieved, as any communist government will tell you. Socialism is a transitionary step toward communism. You can’t go to bed in a capitalist state and magically wake up to a classless, stateless society.

China has been moving away from communism for decades.

If you think that then you have not been paying attention to what’s been happening in China for the last decade.

Russia rejected the Communists for the Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks were the communists! Come on. Maybe pick up Wikipedia or an even better wiki on the topic: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

The phrase is whittle it down.

Not OP, but I’ll take a stab at it.

In your opinion, are worker cooperatives operating in a market economy socialist?

That’s not really how it works. The fundamental question is: is the state capitalist, meaning a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, or is it socialist, meaning a dictatorship of the proletariat? While you can have a worker coop in a capitalist state, you’d still fundamentally be under the boot of the capitalist class that controls the state at the expense of the working class.

And do you consider any countries today socialist?

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Actually_Existing_Socialism

If you’ve never lived in a communist state you’re much more likely to favour communism. People who have (lived in communism) don’t.

• Gallup, 2013: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm From Breakup
• Pew Research, 2017: In Russia, nostalgia for Soviet Union and positive feelings about Stalin
• United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• Newsweek, 2022: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans

Given your false reports to the authorities, it seems you like authoritarianism after all.

If you’re really upset by it you can filter lemmy.ml which is gonna be the main source of left wing posting.

That's true for you, anyway, because your instance is defederated from lemmygrad and hexbear.

First you choose to be a wage slave and then you hate your bosses?

Communists believe that socialism is a transitional state from capitalism to communism, but 1) communists aren’t the only socialists and 2) a lot of Americans think milquetoast social safety net capitalist reformers like Bernie Sanders are socialists despite them never calling for the abolition of private ownership of the means of production.