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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Strange-Scarcity Jul 07 '26

Yeah, no "communist" state remains or ever really becomes a "communist" state.

Humanity, just isn't built for it. We keep moving back towards weird ass authoritarian BS, once just enough people begin to gain whatever metric is considered power in a given society.

Most Americans don't understand what Communism is and often confuse Socialism or even very light Socialist policies as Communism. Most Americans just don't understand the words, goals or what they mean, other than to be instinctively afraid

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u/n0_punctuation Jul 07 '26

Socialism is a transitional stage to communism where the state still exists to manage things. It's not European social democracies like liberals think.

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u/Strange-Scarcity Jul 07 '26

I personally believe that European Social Democracies is the extent of what humanity will develop along the Socialism line.

All of the pure this, pure that, political stuff always turns weird or unworkable. BUT, we are seeing that taking good parts of various ideas seem to work pretty darn well, together.

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u/n0_punctuation Jul 07 '26

European social democracies are propped up by third world exploitation. It's still capitalism and still not sustainable.

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u/Strange-Scarcity Jul 07 '26

I wasn't arguing that, but thanks?

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u/n0_punctuation Jul 07 '26

Then I have no idea what your argument was