[ SECRET POST #3044 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3044 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Rosemary & Thyme]


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03.
[Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken]


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04.
[A Game of Thrones, Jon Snow]


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05.
(Overlord 1)


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06.
[Asterix the Gaul]


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07.
[Repo! The Genetic Opera / Marvel's Agents of SHIELD]


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08.
[Panic! at the Disco]


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09.
[Free! Iwatobi Swim Club]


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10.
[Harry Potter]


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11.
[Darren Criss in Hedwig and the Angry Inch]


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12. [ SPOILER WARNING for Downton Abbey ]



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13.
[Steven Universe]



















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #435.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[cushlamochree]

Ehhhhh I'd push back on this quite a bit. If when you're talking about "idealist communism" you mean anything to do with Marxism, then no, it's just not particularly beautiful or peaceful or even idealist, really. If you're talking about utopian socialism, that's a fair point, but that's very distinct from Marxism, and also has had very little effect on the world outside of a few scattered communes and intentional communities.

I'd also push back on the question of totalitarian dictatorships, in that I think that's an unfair description of most communist states outside of Maoist China and Stalinist Russia (and the Khmer Rouge, but that's kind of its own little thing of complete bugfuck insanity). Dictatorship, yes, frequently; illiberal state, almost always. But I find it hard to say that either Marxism or socialism generally has a serious problem with that kind of thing, at least not relative to other ideologies. I think it mostly ends up that way, not because of something inherent to Marxism or socialism, but because politics is fucking hard.

[herpymcderp]

Yeah I was not really talking about Marxism there, because although that might be where the Soviet ideal was derived (arguably), I don't think many other people would refer to it in those terms. I was more talking about the utopian communism/socialism that tends to get a lot of literary mention. A good example for the modern era would be the communist utopia described in Dinotopia; the every man and woman educated and empowered, everyone working for pleasure, everyone equally compensated and wanting for nothing (although to be fair, this idea also does have a place in some of the more romantic Soviet literature, it's just far from the state-approved variety of communism).

Also, I should also probably have qualified my earlier statement about totalitarianism vis a vis communism with "most of the time". And then I guess I'd have to further qualify that with the addendum: because most of the time communism isn't something countries really try at very hard unless they have aspriations of dictatorship/totalitarianism in the first place. :/