@leondmaster  

 
And so does Liberal Democracy have that same problem or Republicanism when left unchecked. Republican revolutions have seen the rise of figures like Oliver Cromwell and even Napoleon being given control of the organs of state and then dissolving it. Caesar was elected as dictator for life by a Republican state, Napoleon was given power by the National Assembly ostensibly - by his late in life reflections - to be a French George Washington. Santa Anna and the history of post-colonial Mexico is of rich or powerful military men abusing the powers given to them by an electorate to become dictators overthrown by others in coups.
 
The Republic of Venice and the rest scattered over Italy were oligarchies ruled for the benefit and bloodshed of Doges and aristocratic families in the streets. And between them and Oliver Cromwell the weight of failure weighed heavy on the Founding Fathers who sought in their own ways and their own philosophies to build a Utopia in the new world.
 
On the whole, dismissing something as a Utopia pipe dream isn’t an argument that ends the idea of realizing that lost bit of Republican virtue, because it also serves to destroy everything else. So in the end: why not just be Anarcho-Communists at the end of it, if everything ends in dictatorship and oppression through flying the flag of liberty?

@Genny  
Except that’s not how it works, the government is never abolished, and if it is, something functionally identical to a state is created. It really appears that this ultimately comes down to little more than semantics.
 
 
Communism is a made-up utopian pipe-dream that will never exist in the way it’s described and is ultimately used by authoritarians to manipulate gullible idealists into giving up what little rights they have to their collective.

@softland  
except that… “The proletariat seizes political power and turns the means of production in the first instance into state property. But, in doing this, it abolishes itself as proletariat, abolishes all class distinctions and class antagonisms, abolishes also the state as state.’’ - Engels
 
‘‘But it was this only in so far as it was the state of that class which itself represented, for the time being, society as a whole: in ancient times, the state of slave-owning citizens; in the Middle Ages, the feudal lords; in our own time, the bourgeoisie. When at last it becomes the real representative of the whole of society, it renders itself unnecessary. As soon as there is no longer any social class to be held in subjection, as soon as class rule, and the individual struggle for existence based upon our present anarchy in production, with the collisions and excesses arising from these, are removed, nothing more remains to be repressed, and a special repressive force, a state, is no longer necessary.’’ - Also Engels
 
’’The first act by virtue of which the state really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — this is, at the same time, its last independent act as a state. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not “abolished”. It dies out. This gives the measure of the value of the phrase “a free people's state”, both as to its justifiable use at times by agitators, and as to its ultimate scientific insufficiency; and also of the demands of the so-called anarchists for the abolition of the state out of hand.” - Again, Engels
 
(Sorry if it looks long btw)

Starlight:b-but it wasn’t true communism. 
Twilight: it made 100+ million death. 
Starlight: b-but we can get it right. 
Twilight: literally every communism regime has failed horribly or is now a dictatorship with cult personality. 
Starlight: isn’t that what princess Celestia and Luna are ? 
Twilight:no, they are benevolent dictator for life and we like them very very much. 
Starlight: Oo oh, ok.

Indonesian Police will come after Starlight and raids her house

@Background Pony #37B1 
Glimmy gets the bougieose blues.

@LegatusFlagrans
 
CANTERLOT IS FULL OF BOURGEOISIES, ALSO MANEHATTAN .
 
PONYVILLE AND SWEET APPLE ACRES IS THE PLACE FOR WORKING CLASS PROLETARIATS

“COME, TWILIGHT, WE MUST FREE THE PROLETARIAT FROM THE CHAINS OF THE BOURGEOISIE!”

GLIM YES  
YESSSS  
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@Darth Sonic 
I’m assuming that’s supposed to mean “I agree” in your native language. XD
 
Subsequently, if I had the ability to edit it, my most recent comment would precede with “I agree, Americans subsequently et cetera.” ^_^

@thps48 
Why do people assume that I don’t know this? I’m allowed to shit on both my own country, as well as other countries, simultaneously.

Glim yes!

@Darth Sonic 
Americans subsequently have various problems with their own government as well. Run by kings, run by the people, the song and dance tends to go through the same shit nearly every time, as far as I can see from high school history and politics. I tend to think of the phrase “history is doomed to repeat itself” as less of a lesson to future generations and more of an absolute. <3<

Well, Indonesia has no tolerance on communism, even if it’s only the symbol itself. In short, it’s banned.
 
This is because of a tragic event that occurred in 1965-1966, where a failed coup d’etat was allegedly orchestrated by the now-defunct communist party, then end up in mass killings which eventually results in communism being banned by the new president
 
Due to that event, communism there is also become a very negative stigma

@Ping_chan 
>Don’t tell other countries how to do their thing.
 
Are you a head of State? No? Then you have no moral or pragmatic reason not to, and every reason to criticize immoral governments.

@Darth Sonic 
For what it’s worth I don’t really tell other countries how to do their thing I’ve been over to different European countries 5 times already for various reasons, mostly to visit grandma and grandpa, but like I didn’t really hate on any of the locals for not speaking English or questioned why they set cars on fire over the results of a sporting match, I mostly smiled and nodded at the rioting youth while drinking a sample of the local brew and said “hey! We kinda do that back in the states as well!”  
I found the best way to survive visiting a foreign country is to bring your relatives who speak the language or make a friend who does, and then do as the locals do while your there… 
Because judging them by your standards from your hometown is asking for disaster…

We also have to remember something very important: The Bill of Rights only exists in America. There is no such document in many countries.

@RhodieNite
 
@Ping_chan 
Indonesia and China are in the wrong in those scenarios.

@RhodieNite 
I love coming across stories of college students going to other countries, like China, and do stupid stuff in front of Chairman Mao “I’m expressing my freedom of speech!” but you don’t really get to exercise most of those privileges while you are a guest in another country. XD

In Indonesia, she would have been arrested by now
 
Or the worst, getting shot on sight

Why not?

The comments… Delicious!

What’s wrong with a little communism in your daily life?

You guys are funny. Glim wasn’t a communist, the episode was about individualism.
 
It’s like saying Flutter Brutter was about bronies, another popular misconception.

@TubaHorse  
Showers are good for both the mind, body and the quality of your comment posting. 🚿