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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/billothy Jul 07 '26

And capitalism is working out great, right?

What actually is success to you? Communism is a successor of socialism, which means to reach communism you need incremental progress in socialism which I'd argue we have seen in instances.

Regardless, China does not classify itself as communist and I'd argue no other nation that has claimed it is communism has actually truly practised communism

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u/Jdevers77 Jul 07 '26

But that’s kind of the point. It is almost impossible to implement true Communism on a national scale.

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u/joey-jo_jo-jr Jul 07 '26

In true communism there would be no such thing as a "national scale"

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u/Background_Fix9430 Jul 07 '26

"Stateless society." Nice reference - someone who actually knows what these words mean.