In France, none of my friends, coworkers, or family members are religious
No idea how in France, but in Poland i never met nor heard about religious people who wouldn’t be hostile to communism.
do you know per chance if there’re similar communities somewhere on Lemmy ?
No, i do not know. “CapitalismVsSocialism” or something like that on lemmy would be swarmed by the vilest redditors from multiple anticommunist instances and unusable anyway.
And even if progress was indeed slower under all forms of socialism, which i don’t believe
It was much faster. Still is when you compare socialist and capitalist countries on similar level of development.
a serious case could be made that a united&peaceful world with countries from all kind of ideologies would be greater/‘more instructive’ than an hegemonic communist world
Absolutely not. Capitalism needs to grow to function. Eventually it crashes because infinite growth is not possible on finite planet, but in the meantime capitalist states would necessarily tried to expand on the socialist ones. It makes communism impossible when capitalism still exist because you cannot make stateless, classless, moneyless society when some warlords want to colonize you. Capitalism must be completely eradicated as a system in order to achieve communism.
the alternative to coexistence is something i’d rather not think about, and unecessary/undesirable.
Coexistence with capitalism? That’s paradox of tolerance, capitalism cannot tolerate noncapitalist countries, you can notice this everywhere in its history, both feudal and socialist states (not to mention weaker capitalist states) always came under the attack of stronger ones. Read Lenin’s “Imperialism: the highest state of capitalism”
No idea how in France, but in Poland i never met nor heard about religious people who wouldn’t be hostile to communism.
No, i do not know. “CapitalismVsSocialism” or something like that on lemmy would be swarmed by the vilest redditors from multiple anticommunist instances and unusable anyway.
It was much faster. Still is when you compare socialist and capitalist countries on similar level of development.
Absolutely not. Capitalism needs to grow to function. Eventually it crashes because infinite growth is not possible on finite planet, but in the meantime capitalist states would necessarily tried to expand on the socialist ones. It makes communism impossible when capitalism still exist because you cannot make stateless, classless, moneyless society when some warlords want to colonize you. Capitalism must be completely eradicated as a system in order to achieve communism.
Coexistence with capitalism? That’s paradox of tolerance, capitalism cannot tolerate noncapitalist countries, you can notice this everywhere in its history, both feudal and socialist states (not to mention weaker capitalist states) always came under the attack of stronger ones. Read Lenin’s “Imperialism: the highest state of capitalism”