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on Embrace, Extend, Extinguish · c/memes · 17 pts · 3y

I'm not entirely sure; it just seemed like the kind of amusing half-baked idea that would be perfect for a shitpost.

AES isn’t communism, that’s kind of the point.

If you're using communism to refer specifically to the classless, moneyless society where production is done for common need/want instead of individual profit, that is correct. However, communists have used the term to refer to something that actually does currently exist as well.

From the very first point in Principles of Communism:

What is Communism?

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

This quote from The German Ideology is both very important and too often overlooked:

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

With this in mind, while no AES has abolished class society, the people directing these states are communists, and the movement they are taking to liberate the proletariat is communism.

I usually see Mastodon posts showing up as comments in Lemmy as opposed to posts. Back before the reddit exodus when the userbase was smaller, if you saw a random post get a shit ton of likes and comments, there was a good chance that was because Mastodon users engaging with it.