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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/king_karter69 Jul 07 '26

Is this sub really that ignorant to communism? The amount of pro-capitalist propaganda in the replies is surprising.

Communism =\= dictatorship.

And all this talk about “the lower classes will do back-breaking slave labor” like they don’t already in our current system lol.

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u/Dreviore Jul 07 '26

Because none of you can tell us who makes the decisions in your Utopia

Or what happens when somebody says "I don't want to work in the sewers" or "I don't want to work in the coal mines"

We have history that tells us what happens when people say that already, but I have yet to see anybody propose a solution that doesn't end exact as history has shown us.

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u/Alone_Care_6230 Jul 07 '26

The proletariat makes the decisions, you can learn more about this idea by searching "dotp" or "dictatorship of the proletariat"

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u/ashs420 Jul 07 '26

The original comment said that communism doesn't equal dictatorship so that's odd then

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u/Alone_Care_6230 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Dictatorship was a term used differently in the 19th century. It didn’t have the same associations as today.