diplodocus

There is a euphemism for dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and it is bourgeois democracy.

I don’t really think you’ve captured communism: Cuba isn’t.

Communism has never yet been achieved, as any communist government will tell you. Socialism is a transitionary step toward communism. You can’t go to bed in a capitalist state and magically wake up to a classless, stateless society.

China has been moving away from communism for decades.

If you think that then you have not been paying attention to what’s been happening in China for the last decade.

Russia rejected the Communists for the Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks were the communists! Come on. Maybe pick up Wikipedia or an even better wiki on the topic: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

The phrase is whittle it down.

Not OP, but I’ll take a stab at it.

In your opinion, are worker cooperatives operating in a market economy socialist?

That’s not really how it works. The fundamental question is: is the state capitalist, meaning a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, or is it socialist, meaning a dictatorship of the proletariat? While you can have a worker coop in a capitalist state, you’d still fundamentally be under the boot of the capitalist class that controls the state at the expense of the working class.

And do you consider any countries today socialist?

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Actually_Existing_Socialism

If you’ve never lived in a communist state you’re much more likely to favour communism. People who have (lived in communism) don’t.

• Gallup, 2013: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm From Breakup
• Pew Research, 2017: In Russia, nostalgia for Soviet Union and positive feelings about Stalin
• United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• Newsweek, 2022: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans

Given your false reports to the authorities, it seems you like authoritarianism after all.

If you’re really upset by it you can filter lemmy.ml which is gonna be the main source of left wing posting.

That’s true for you, anyway, because your instance is defederated from lemmygrad and hexbear.

First you choose to be a wage slave and then you hate your bosses?

Communists believe that socialism is a transitional state from capitalism to communism, but 1) communists aren’t the only socialists and 2) a lot of Americans think milquetoast social safety net capitalist reformers like Bernie Sanders are socialists despite them never calling for the abolition of private ownership of the means of production.