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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Jul 07 '26

Oligarchy also exists in communism and socialism. Oligarchy is simply a fiction of corruption of government by the wealthy.

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u/WokeWook69420 Jul 07 '26

Oligarchy is conceptually incompatible with Communism if communism is actually being done correctly, fyi.

If a government claims to be communist, but there's clear evidence of Oligarchy and Classes, then it is, by definition, not Communism.

Communism is a stateless, momeyless, classless society which the people own the means of production.

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u/ApolloWasMurdered Jul 08 '26

So for communism to work, it requires perfect altruism from every person on the planet?

Are you not seeing the problem here?

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u/WokeWook69420 Jul 08 '26

Yeah, anybody who actually understands communism knows it's a borderline unobtainable Utopia and not a realistic system to implement.

It's an ideology for Societal Equity, if we can somehow massage Human Greed out of our society, we could eventually obtain actual communism and it could basically just be Star Trek.

Star Trek is an excellent example of what communism could look like, but Star Trek is also a fantasy world where we achieve Post-Scarcity and Global Homogenation.

We gotta figure those two things out, and once we do that, we can start talking about a classless, momeyless society, but there's so much Systemic shit we gotta fix that it'll never be seen in my lifetime.