Jokes aside, I genuinely don’t understand why he looks so weird, like a haunted wax dummy version of the real Zuckerberg that’s hidden in the basement.
Not on the scale of Star Trek, where advanced technology such as replicators allows them to create food out of waste through atomic recomposition. Modern-day communist societies such as the Soviet Union are plagued by hunger and starvation. en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Soviet_famine_of_1930–1933
USSR and China aren't really communist countries. They are, at best, revisionist. They are command economies with state-capitalism and authoritarian rulers that definitely have different social classes. While USSR ostensibly got rid of personal property, that just entailed the authoritarian owning everything. Both countries lied to the people to get a socialist revolution started and then seized all power for their party (which don't exist in communism).
With all due respect some parts are crudely wrong and some absurd, and the decisiveness with which you state it is unjustified and makes it hard to take you seriously.
USSR ostensibly got rid of personal property
Absolutely not. They got rid of private property. Personal property means the ownership over your personal belongings. Private property is the ownership of non-governmental entities. What existed in the USSR was public property - the property of the state/party (state and party are to be seen interchangably in an authoritarian one party state)
USSR was state-capitalist
Also: No. Capitalism is defined by the existence of private property, concretely the private ownership of the means of production. There was no private property.
There also were no competitive markets, “free” price systems or a ubiquitous profit motive, finance capital and certainly more characteristics.
I can’t see how calling the USSR capitalist in any capacity is anything but absolutely ignorant. The best label to assign it is: state-socialist.
Both countries lied to the people to get a socialist revolution started
Where is that from? NED weekly magazine?;)
The USSR did fail the people in many regards, sometimes criminally so, and its important to understand them, but for that to happen we must undertake a serious attempt. There is a lot of neoliberal propaganda (“history is written by the winners” etc).
I didn’t talk about China bc calling it capitalist is significantly less absurd but rest assured I don’t subscribe to your statement.
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No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed
Its forgivable we have all been molded by the propaganda of out capitalist ruling class, but we can’t be content with that. Stay on course we need a better socialism but we can’t learn with closed eyes
May have something to do with modern capitalist nations taking economic action against modern communist countries, at least in part. Not that they don’t have their own issues caused by an unreasonably sensitive transition.
I feel if you assume the good will which a communist society would need to flourish, a capitalist society would also be egalitarian under similar conditions.
Capitalism encourages and even requires antagonism, so even if people started as good, it is difficult to maintain that in the population over generations. In communism, the reward for being greedy or lazy is insignificant. I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a communist, but I would say that I’m cynical of capitalism.
Not if you assume people will be altruistic and that the system will not be corrupt, which are the assumptions people make for theoretical communism. Then it too can be egalitarian.
So the soviet union had a single famine 8 years after it was formed, compared to the hundereds before, in the middle of a great depression and complete isolation on the international stage, and you condemn the rest of its existence as being ‘plagued by starvation and hunger’?
P.s Heres a link to a declassified CIA document stating that compared to the average US diet, the soviets ate approximately the same amount of food, and had a more nutritious diet overall.
In a way it’s understandable, people who are drawn to this community might be quite vulnerable to mention of suicide. Then again, some of them may need a space to discuss their suicidal thoughts. There’s no easy answer to this problem. Blurr suicide related posts in feeds maybe? Not ideal still.
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