Many countries include ‘Democratic’ or ‘People’s’ in their names, even though they are not democratic and do not serve their people. Examples: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Lao People’s Democratic Republic People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria Democratic Republic of the Congo And German Democratic Republic (East Side) in 1949–1990. None of these states are democratic, power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a small ruling elite. Who are they fooling with these names?

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      182·
      24 days ago

      A revolution without a solid, detailed plan for how to actually run the country afterword is just teenage angst exercised at a larger scale.

      “We’re going to be a social anarchist commune!” does not count as a plan. It’s an aspiration at best.

      If there is no plan laid out, with strong community buy-in, then what always happens is that the “revolution” gets co-opted by someone to serve their own power-hungry ambitions.

    • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
      83·
      24 days ago

      and fascists took advantage of the resulting power vacuum.

      • teslekova@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Not fascists. Fascists need expansionist military conquest for the regime to survive. When authoritarian communism goes bad, it’s able to survive by The Revolution. The Revolution justifies any act, no matter how brutal and misguided.

        Fascism justifies itself through conquest and extermination of “lesser peoples”, like the Slavs or the Palestinians.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      The larger problem of projecting is universal, and worse if the west if anything. No child left behind is to leave children behind, big beautiful bill is ugly, take any republican bill, it’s all opposite, which is not substantially different from these other countries having an ironic name.

      It’s not communist or capitalist, it’s authoritarian.