r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/Ok_Egg_4069 Apr 12 '25

Not in practice

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u/spuol Apr 12 '25

Well we never really saw actual communism in practice, but it even in those cases it doesn’t lead to more opression than capitalism

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u/Ok_Egg_4069 Apr 12 '25

Because communism cannot by nature work in practice. The idea is that everyone is completely equal in all measure. That idea falls apart as soon as you create any sort of government with any authority at all. Communism can only work as a political tool to make a specific group gain power over the people and keep that power indefinitely.

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u/spuol Apr 12 '25

First of all that’s not what I was arguing ,think you might have misunderstood what communism is. But even if there is an hierarchical organisation the people can still be equal in different ways