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"During the years of Stalin's reign, the Soviet nation made dramatic gains in literacy, industrial wages, health care, and women's rights. These accomplishments usually go unmentioned when the Stalinist era is discussed. To say that "socialism didn't work" is to ignore that it did. In Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, revolutionary communism created a life for the mass of people that was far better than the wretched existence they had endured under feudal lords, military bosses, foreign colonizers, and Western capitalists. The end result was a dramatic improvement in the living conditions for hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or since witnessed in history."
Michael Parenti from Blackshirts and Reds, pages 84-85, I have provided a free PDF copy of the book so you can read it (we both know you wont).
and what's astounding is that all of the aforementioned gains were made in the context of a world completely dominated by warring capitalist nation-states, which were doing everything in their power to strangulate communist movements through shear monopoly on violence.
When communism fails so hard that you become a space-faring civilization on par with the richest nation on the planet, mere decades after significant amounts of your industry and citizens were destroyed in a world war
Marx failed to consider why the cheese is free
Hey look everybody it’s the guy OP was talking about in the post! You’d think reading the post would cause a flicker of self awareness and this dipshit would pause a second and think about how much they really know, but nope! right into the idiotic talking points lmfao!
They even did the hilariously self-assured while being wrong thing!
i didn't realize the united states government was deliberately sabotaging star citizen
Shit! There goes my cover!
the only time in my life i have ever heard that phrase it was uttered by a liberal
also my 10 minute break is about up, someone else post the parenti quote about communism "not working"
I got u
https://youtu.be/6Tmi7JN3LkA?si=08lOQqK3DzoRPYSv
Homie there are entire books about how wrong that is
bold of you to assume that libs can read.
It's truly a marvel what communism can accomplish in terms of improved life-expectancy, rapid economic growth and industrialization, literacy, public health, housing, and economic equality when it "doesn't work."
now imagine if it did
no, but for real though, imagine if a socialist country could just exist without having to waste billions on guns
I mean that's why a global and total radical reorganization of society is necessary to get beyond this trap. We have to resolve one of the fundamental contradictions of our current organization: that states that can exploit natural resources, other states, and their own populations can use the surplus gathered from that exploitation to impose their will and maintain their existence; while at the same time, this organization also necessarily contributes to its ultimate ruin, but it does mean that they are able to enforce that challengers also maintain a surplus put toward combating that will in order to resist domination - at least so long as the internal contradictions are kept at bay.
Anyway, we'll either advance to a new organization of human beings with its own, new contradictions, or fall to permanent ruin. I doubt it will be very long now in the grand scheme of things.
That is what dipshit undergrads in Che Guevara t-shirts say. That is not what most Marxists say.
list every historical instance of communism
and that's why capitalism is the only solution
Great job walking in here and saying word for word what we all expected you to say champ
The Soviet Union was real communism, the People's Republic of China is real communism, the DPRK is real communism, Cuba is real communism, Vietnam is real communism
You're such an expert that this is your first time speaking to actual communists
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Please come and share your expertise about the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia
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Despite being a hexbarista you went for the classical emoji option. I love you.
I just think it's funny. Gotta keep it fresh!
I have chosen deliberately to call you that since federation began. I won't stop.
lol
lmao
What is capitalism then? Star Atlas?
Great reading comprehension nerd, do you get the rest of your worldly knowledge from little people that have yet to develop object permanence?
Communism bettered the lives of hundreds of millions. Maybe you ought to understand something before you open your stupid mouth
Stop trying to impress us, nerd.
Video gaem
are you doing a bit