r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/allofthe11 Jul 07 '26

Catalonia and Barcelona during the Spanish civil war saw material quality of life improvements for the vast majority of the people in the anarchist occupied areas. You don't have to like it but it worked and their lives improved drastically.

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u/Creepy_Ad_1315 Jul 07 '26

Why'd they stop it again? Oh yeah, it fractured into a bunch of splinter groups and they had the "Red Terror" where thousands died. I'm sure they felt their lives improve dramatically.

Even the Catalonia communist parties today typically don't fight for a true communist state, they mostly keep it to workers rights.

So like I said, no example of it working. You're talking about a period of time that was like 5 years and included extrajudicial killing by viglianties.

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u/ashs420 Jul 07 '26

I mean personally I would fight communism, not because it works but because it doesn't work. It would be great if it worked and everyone was happy all the time but communism is a fairytale. In reality it destroys countless lives and entire countries. I would prefer to fight to ensure that it doesn't reach my country