Well. Stop using strawmen. Communism is defined by progress through dialectical Materialism. Has any nation finished that progression?
EchoCT
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Read 'State and Revolution' by Lenin. It's quite short and not that bad a read. Addresses exactly what you are talking about.
Look up dialectical Materialism. China is 'communist' as they are progressing along the roadmap Dialectical Materialism provides towards achieving communism.
Those famines happened every 10 years before communism, they happened ONCE during in each location and not again since.
In the meantime capitalism had that death total due to forced starvation every 7 years on average.
Not going to downvote, but I do think you're lacking quite a bit of insight into the reasons human society exists at all. Cooperation is the reason human society exists at all, so saying we're inheritly selfish is kinda laughable in that context.
I would encourage you to look up information on dialectical Materialism and the necessity of capitalism as a stage in that dialectical.
Capitalism had a purpose, and it's past time for us to move on.
Dialectical Materialism. Right now, they are. You either work towards communism or capitalism moves towards consolidation of capital. Those are your choices.
The rest of the world knows what's going on and is a lot to work around the US since our politicians don't have the balls to do the right thing.
Nice: "Thank you for the input, I prefer to do it the way I have been, which is equally effective and works for me. If you believe it is causing issues elsewhere in our workflow we can bring it up with manager "
Less Nice: "I understand, but no thank you."
Less nice than that: While maintaining direct eye contact, "No."
Not nice: "Shouldn't you be doing your job and not mine?"
Satisfying, but likely get you fired: "Fuck off."
And nonfederated social media. Not just that one.
The nice thing about Lemmy is that I can say "I hope he dies" and won't get banned.
Fuck 'Bibi', Fuck Israel.
Neither the USSR or China fulfilled Dialectical Materialism yet either. That's a prerequisite for the ideals of communism.