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Humor me- a clicky question (re: communism!)
Would you take any issue with the following phrase?:
"He tried to shift his views from communist to a more democratic government."
(real world context re: Soviet Union, not some Karl Marx utopia fantasy, if that makes a difference in your response)
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Re: Humor me- a clicky question (re: communism!)
On a semantic level that sentence is terrible.
LOL- I debated whether or not to edit it but figured I'd at least capture some of the 'huh?' that threw me.
For anyone wondering wtf this was about-
I'm taking an online class on American foreign policy and last week we were discussing the collapse of the Soviet Union. Throughout the Cold War talk, a lot of people were equating communist with Soviet which grated on my nerves horribly until the prof jumped in and told people to straighten that out. Then people started doing this, using communist an a way that implied it as a form of government rather than economic structure.
At first it drove me nuts. But then I decided it was passable, since communism has generally been equated with totalitarian/authoritarian control in real-world context. On the other hand, Marx's communist utopia was more of an anarchy so someone could theoretically find that problematic.
I also learned in another class that there are crazy fringe environmentalists who think the only way to save the planet is to revert the entire world to localized democratic communist communities. So I figured I'd add the 'disagree with the premise' option in case anyone here thought that sounded like a good and viable plan.
(the 'he' was Gorbachev but as I wasn't concerned with accuracy of the claim itself, I omitted that fact)
"He tried to shift his views from communist to a more democratic government."
I would say...
He tried to shift his views from being communist to more democratic.
OR
He tried to shift his views away from communism toward a government based on Democracy.
OR
He tried to shift from a communist governmental view to a more democratic one.
Edited: I wrote this response before reading your class info. Sorry.