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      • Neato@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        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).

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          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

          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, no “free” price systems nor a ubiquitous profit motive, no finance capital and certainly more characteristics of capitalism.

          You can’t call the USSR capitalist in any capacity, that would be ignorant, the best label to assign it I’ve heard 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 learn from them, but for that to happen we must undertake a serious attempt at understanding them. 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.

          Obligatory Michael Parenti

          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. In the end you seem to be making a nod to communism, if that is true then stay on course we need a better socialism but we can’t expect to have it if we’re not willing to learn

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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Batman
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          1 year ago

          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.

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            1 year ago

            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.

            • Batman
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              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.