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Re:After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Tim... by Karunamon on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:57AM (#34693587)
What little they did write in the Manifesto did plenty of damage all on its own, and it served as a step-by-step guide for most of history's failed communist states. (Particularly the bits of making "despotic inroads" on the existing systems)
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Re:After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Tim... by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:24AM (#34693982)
I don't disagree, but I also think much has been lost in translation between 19th century phrases and language and conventions vs now. Context of the time was revolutions in the context of a mix of brutal 19th century monarchies/dictatorships, proto-capitalist/mostly agrarian economies, and brutal badly regulated industrial capitalisms.

The phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat" in particular has a very unfortunate history and ... interpretation.

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