• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Communists never championed democracy and rights?

    What do you know of modern Greek history?

    Here is what I wrote:

    Communists were (and are) the people arguing for democracy for human rights and for liberty. And they were the people persecuted and jailed and tortured for this.

    Do you want me to list names of Greek communists who did exactly that and suffered exactly thar? I even have a great-uncle who did several years hard time.

    You say what state falls under this description? I dunno, Chile under Allende? Kerala under several decades of communist government? Uruguay under Mujica? Burkina under Sankara? Or do you want a recent European example, like Cyprus under Christofias? Or do you want examples of countless communist mayors from around the world? I could expand to Chiapas under the Zapatistas or Republican Spain or even Rojava under the SDF but let’s keep revolutionary governments out of the picture.

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      7 hours ago

      Cyprus, Chile and Uruguay? You’ve got to be kidding… these failed states have horrendous human rights records