I would definitely want more parties in Cuba on the governance side. One party is ripe for abuse. Generally the more the marrier.

Right now I think thier government is too large. Large isn’t necessarily bad, but a government should only IMO be as large as it needs to be to help its population. Of course on a political compass, I’m more on the libertarian end in terms of governance.

I think the economics of Cuba would be better if the US would stop senseless embargo.

Again, ideally we want strong communist economic and social fabric AND a thriving democracy to pick leadership. I think they are struggling on the latter.

Of course my perspective is the strict embargos are in place solely because the US really doesn’t want communism to work. If it worked somewhere, then it makes US capitalism look quite bad.

I think there was a misunderstanding based on the context of the post above? Sorry. I thought you were talking about my views as being authoritarian.

Edit: dumb voice to text software

See this just reads as a complete misunderstanding of what communism is. The word Communism is derived from the word Commune, in which there is traditionally no standard power structure. Too much red scare propaganda. To me of the most prevalent feelings of authoritarianism in my life has been the boss/underling dynamic in the workplace under capitalism.

I’m pro communist economics and pro democratic governance. There is a reason the movement here in the US is towards “democratic socialism”, because they are two separate facets of a country. The governance (democratic) and the economic (socialism).

I’m a democratic Communist

Indeed

No, I find socialism and markets to be a capitalist compromise that still breeds wasteful middlemen. More regulated middlemen, but still. Communism is an economic framework, not a governmental one.

For sure socialism is a step up from cpaitalism, but I don’t think it’s enough.

They have an entire sub called “thedunktank” that is about sending targeted harassment to specific users.

I was bullied for off Lemmy.One by the hexbear mods who sent hexbear users my way to harass me…

All for (while I’m still a raging communist) not being a pro authoritarian communist.

We just need a little more inflation and a few more Netflix price hikes before we lose our bread and circuses.

I never said we dont need reforms. In fact the issue I have is Capitalism as a whole.

All UBI would do is give those who own the means of automation 100% power. What leverage would we have if not our labor?

Thats not at all to say what we have going on right now is not evil.

I actually think universal basic income is a very flawed idea from a leftist perspective.

It is effectively a capitalist compromise that still puts all of the asset holders in immense positions of power. The only difference now is they effectively are governmentally enforced as those positions of power. It will make the wealth disparity exponentially worse.

The answer to our wealth disparity is to put power in the hands of the average person.

Lol “art”

No, I’m a communist. I don’t believe in monitary commerce. But I’m absolutely with you, with communism also only being able to succeed if it’s democratic.

Literally, the only statement I made was that if they weren’t communists, they probably would not have made lemmy. A capitalist would have made Reddit. That doesn’t diminish their faults. It’s just pointing out that none of us would be here if they weren’t communist.

I literally just described the difference between their governmental philisophies and their economic ones.

We already have a capitalist, Lemmy. It’s called Reddit.

Lemmy exists explicitly because of anti-capitalist sentiment, not despite it. Remember that politics is two separate spectrums, possibly more. Economic theory and governmetal theory are completely different things. My point is that it is their economic communism that birthed lemmy, and thier governmental theory is really not releveant to the software in the same way.

I’m more of a libertarian communist, communist economic theory I think is excellent. That doesn’t mean that communist regimes of the past make any sense, because of their authoritarian bend.

Turns out political opinions arent black and white.

My problem with this ideology is while there are plenty of tankies on Lemmy, the term gets overapplied.

Some people think anyone to the left of Bill Kristol is a tankie.

Right, but Lemmy is open source. It can be forked.

Their political ideologies that are anti-capitalism are actually Lemmys greatest strength.

Why did they not have 2 doctors? Its a big ship. There was room for both.

I dont see why not. Especially with the switch 2 coming out eventually, I think the value proposition of the deck goes up for consumers who might want to make a choice