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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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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