Depends on the audience. It’s polarizing, hence the downvotes as well.

Hexbear and Lemmygrad are the two explicitly Communist instances, and Lemmy.ml has Marxist-Leninist admins (though apparently they claim .ml is because it’s cheap, not for Marxism-Leninism).

It isn’t feasible, period, until Socialism is achieved, which requires a smashing of the bourgeois state and a replacement with a democratic worker-government.

I’m a normal, healthy Communist, thank you very much

It’s almost like I’m a Communist or something.

Stay mad.

No, you’re a leach that seeks to endlessly profit off of once-created Value. You aren’t bettering anyone’s lives, you extort them based on their need of shelter. The minor maintenance you do does not entitle you to the vast rent you extract.

Many red fash support the states of North Korea, Russia, China, etc.

“Red-fash” isn’t a thing, except perhaps for PatSocs and MAGA Communists, like the aforementioned American Communist Party. There are Marxists, and Marxists generally defend AES. There are no Marxists who support Russia except in its anti-NATO stance.

Additionally, this doesn’t answer my question. What specifically makes a government authouritarian?

Ofc “real commies” would never support any state.

Are Marx, Engels, and Lenin not “real commies?” I suggest reading The State and Revolution, it’s around 25% Marx and Engels quotes and goes over the Marxist Theory of the State. Specifically, the Marxist position is that the State can’t be abolished overnight, so we must smash the Capitalist state and replace it with a more democratic worker-state that will itself work out contradictions, transitioning from a policing of people to an administration of things, a state-as-not-a-state.

Most identify as anarchists, nihilists, etc. in order to avoid ideology/terminology that’s largely been recuperated by authoritarianism.

Ah, that’s why you didn’t answer the authoritarian question and reject the Marxist analysis of the State, you’re an Anarchist and are trying to claim full ownership of the word “Communism” and reject all of Marxism itself. I suggest reading Marxist theory, not just Goldman and Kropotkin.

Called it.

Generally, “Commie” means Communist, ie a Marxist, not an Anarchist. The US rarely scare-mongers Anarchism, because there hasn’t been a large Anarchist movement that served as a genuine threat at the world stage to the US.

To be fair, most people on Lemmy.world can’t either. The vast majority of people in the west have not read Marx, or if they have done so, they have only read the Communist Manifesto perhaps once. Communism is so thoroughly demonized in the Imperial Core that only a minor fraction have even read Marx, and only a fraction among them have read more than just the CM.

You obviously have not once been operating in good faith, so I stopped engaging.

Trump has pretty specifically called Kamala a Marxist because her dad is a Marxist economist, and Marxism must be genetic I guess

It likely doesn’t function for you either, unless you’re a business owner or landlord

Everyday life is not functioning 👍

They have an endless buzzword pocket that they cycle around. Marxist-Leninist, Communist, Socialist, Transgender, Illegal, CRT, DEI, etc.

My favorite quote from that fuckwad is “Lenin. Leh-neen, as they say.” Dude has no fucking clue

Social programs are not socialism. The covid checks were not socialist.

Those are found in the nordics, that’s still dependent on Capitalism as the basis unless you also want to entirely restructure government.

Social programs are not socialism.

Nope. The USSR obviously wasn’t in the Imperial core.