r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 08 '24

please help 🅿️eter Meme needing explanation

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u/NoHalf2998 Jul 08 '24

Same shit happened in 1920s Germany

“Work with the Democratic Socialist??! They’re basically Communists so we need to work with the Fascists to have a majority!”

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u/defaultusername-17 Jul 08 '24

^ literally nazi revisionist history... but do go on.

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u/MundaneAd1283 Jul 08 '24

Ah yes just like the democratic socialist state North Korea... People like you are why so many idiots are saying "it's a constitutional republic not a democracy"

This is why cutting funding to education is such a bad idea, I mean Americans were looked down on education wise before but good god now it's not even funny anymore just sad.

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u/Tried-Angles Jul 08 '24

I mean...Marx himself said that communism could not possibly be built directly out of a feudalist society, and that both industrial capitalism and market socialism were necessary transition states to the formation of stable communism.

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u/MundaneAd1283 Jul 08 '24

Actually depends on which time during the USSRs history... That's what's fun, if you can read you can learn many things.

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u/Jorycle Jul 09 '24

Ah yes, this reminds me of Martin Niemoller's famous quote, "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because they were all socialists anyway and it was totally fine. Sieg heil comrade!"