purpleworm [none/use name]

You can read almost anything they put out, where they are proud of their accomplishments but emphasize the continual need for progress. The five year plans are a good example of that.

You are seriously misunderstanding what communists advocate for. We don’t want a benevolent dictator, we want democracy without the corruption caused by capitalism and we want it to extend to production without the “private property rights” of capitalists getting special say (to the extent that the economy can support other organizational methods, which depends on the level of development).

Workers have common class interests and make up the vast majority of the voters and that’s fundamentally what it hinges on.

1 in 32000 is very close to the ratio of deaths from COVID itself.

Covid had a much higher lethality than 1 in 320000 and the 1 in 320000 having myocarditis does not mean the condition killed them, though some of them were killed (a fraction of that already small number).

they didn’t work (according to the same doctors who administered them).

You keep citing these completely anecdotal testimonies, but the subject has been extensively studied and yes they did work, especially lowering the lethality rate. If you were vaxxed when you had that high fever, there is a much higher chance you would have been killed by it were you not vaxxed (though I can’t claim to know the outcome, of course).

I think it’s good to either respond to people in good faith or, on a forum, simply ban them if good faith can’t reach them, but that doesn’t make insulting someone “aligned with fascism”.

The bulletpoints you listed do not mention anything consistent with actual genocide by either the UN or colloquial definitions. The UN report’s conclusion is that there were various types of abuse and repression but that there was no genocide.

How long ago was this and where? China made a big push against extreme poverty in the years leading up to 2020 and a central element was making sure people had functional housing and plumbing where in some cases people literally lived in a big cave or in huts in remote villages. While poverty in general persists, conditions that bad were basically eliminated.

Edit: I see elsewhere you said 11 years ago, so yeah, I think it’s perfectly likely you encountered something like that if you say you did, but I expect that if you look into how wherever you were is doing now, you’ll see that it has changed because of the national initiative.

I’d also point out that countries like Australia don’t have a constitution at all and they’ve lasted longer than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Australia ?!?! I’m genuinely a little baffled by this. Reading about it, it looks like there are some important elements of the structure of the government that aren’t part of the Constitution, most notably the office of Prime Minister not even being mentioned, but that’s extremely different from there not being a Constitution at all.

I think that you need to find a better argument to promote a worker based economy. Perhaps the co-op based system in Italy, which has lasted longer, is a more sustainable way to go.

“X country was defeated, therefore a better example of a government is a bunch of cooperatives that exist inside of an imperialist state that is building up toward being taken over by fascists again.”

I’ve got nothing against those co-ops, but this is apples to oranges and just seems like motivated reasoning.