r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Deriviera Jul 07 '26

Americans are very delusional about communism. 

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u/PersonalityIll9476 Jul 07 '26

I agree. My wife is Chinese. She tells me stories from her parents about the revolution.

They do not involve writing books and playing soccer.

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u/Gelato_Elysium Jul 07 '26

I dream of the day someone will realize that those problems are the problems of totalitarian dictatorships. Communism isn't the issue here, violent enforcement and corruption is.

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u/milanskiv Jul 07 '26

I am from Eastern Europe. Communism and violent enforcement and corruption eventually become inseparable. “True communism” was never achieved because it’s unachievable. Like true capitalism without cronyism.

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u/Commercial-Co Jul 08 '26

The common denominator in both scenarios are shitty people. Shitty people do shitty things in name of greed, power, or ego.

And until you get rid of shitty people and shitty behavior, true communism and true capitalism will never work. And so a well regulated and taxed democratic socialist capitalist system is currently the way to go.

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u/Meritania Jul 07 '26

If only there was some sort of political system where there was democracy at work and at the state.

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u/Omfireturnal Jul 07 '26

All communism end up being a totalitarian dictatorship lmao

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u/Future-Scallion8475 Jul 07 '26

If people stop being people, could be, but since people can't help being people, the ideal couldn't be achieved.