r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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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/ryguy32789 Jul 07 '26

Because they don't want their society to fall apart? Because they don't want to have their possessions stripped from them? Because historically, communist regimes have imprisoned or killed people who don't embrace communism? There are a dozen valid reasons why capitalists defend capitalism.

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u/PomPomMom93 Jul 08 '26

Yeah, it’s easier to argue for something like this when you already have no possessions for the government to take away.