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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

At what point did the final straw finally break?

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[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When I discovered that communism has and does work (i.e. learning about the achievements of USSR, China, Cuba, DPRK. Never hated any of these countries, I just knew nothing about them)

Pretty much always had the same values as I do now but I was extremely captured by capitalist realism and believed only through that system could anybody escape wage slavery

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

Pretty much always had the same values as I do now but I was extremely captured by capitalist realism and believed only through that system could anybody escape wage slavery

Relatable. Marxism gave me language to better express things I had already known for a long time.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

That was always the fairy tale expounded, that whatever the flaws of Capitalism, that it ultimately created so much growth in the economy that it would eventually eclipse any of the accomplishments of a Communist system. But in order to make that lie work, they needed to either just lie about the accomplishments under communism from the 20's to 80's... or just straight-up take credit for communist accomplishments from the 80's to the present.

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