• 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That might work on paper, but not in reality.

    Look, capitalism was also a great idea on paper, no doubt there… how things panned out, that’s an entirely different story.

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      1 year ago

      Capitalism was good, and useful, as an improvement over Feudalism.

      Now, it’s time to do better and move towards the next stage in our evolution. Socialism.

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        1 year ago

        That one’s been tried - spoiler: it’s worse.

        Pick literally any former USSR state and compare the improvements in living standards before and after socialism.

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          1 year ago

          No Leninist and Authoritarian society ever managed to turn control of the means of production over to the workers.

          Besides, with more attentive you would find that even Lenin’s abortive revolution was preferable to Tsarist Russia.

          Either way Makno’s Black Army territories are more illustrative of Socialism than examples based in Leninist counterrevolution and tyranny.