Pedro Martínez:

“Dictatorship of the proletariat“

"Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie"

It is all the same crap. Here is a political and economic elite. They have power and want to keep it in their hands. So they oppress everyone around them.

I saw it in Guatemala where I was born. The rich oppressed the poor and used them as cheap labour. When the poor figured that they had enough they rose up, and the rich responded by throwing the army at them. The CIA figured that communists were taking over, so they pumped money and weapons into the military and turned Guatemala into a Fascist dictatorship. The rich got richer, and the poor got screwed.

Hungary and Czechoslovakia were oppressed by the Soviet Union when they had had enough of "Communism". The question is: "Who had the power and why did they oppress?"

It is the same: capitalism and communism are equally oppressive. Stalin sent 9 million Ukrainians to their death in the name of the revolution. Our western "democracies" (mostly represented by the US, the UK and France) sent 6 million Vietnamese and 3 million Koreans to their deaths in the name of freedom and democracy. Every oppressive system uses ideology to justify itself. In the end, oppressors are oppresors, no matter how hard they try to justify their actions.

People and their political systems are defined not by their ideologies but by their actions. Ideology is just empty justification. Higher principles life freedom, democracy, equality, liberation and revolution are abstract concepts and the powerful use them to justify lining their pockets with money and pursuing political power.