A lot of these comments are the classical “it works only on paper” bullshit or the “it always fails” schtick as if it has been tried in a void and not with constant assault from capitalist superpowers and the oligarchs that control those countries. Or what the countries looked like before revolution. Many cases of increased life expectancy, quality of life increases, and lowered infant mortality rates after communist or socialist regimes are installed. Even with capitalists and the countries they control doing literally everything they can to destroy the lives of the people within these countries to fit a narrative. Many of you are way oversimplifying things with preloaded phrases straight out of McCarthyism and it’s really depressing.
If Communism can’t survive or requires totalitarian despotism in the presence of capitalist countries, then it’s an unfit system of government. Governments need to be able survive outside challenges.
“Communism hasn’t been properly tried” is the real bullshit. It doesn’t work, and devolves quickly to authoritarianism.
Communism did that when starting with fuedelism or other tyranical systems. when starting with clasical liberal societies it doesn’t improve much. There has never been a capitalist society so who knows how that would fare.
A lot of these comments are the classical “it works only on paper” bullshit or the “it always fails” schtick as if it has been tried in a void and not with constant assault from capitalist superpowers and the oligarchs that control those countries. Or what the countries looked like before revolution. Many cases of increased life expectancy, quality of life increases, and lowered infant mortality rates after communist or socialist regimes are installed. Even with capitalists and the countries they control doing literally everything they can to destroy the lives of the people within these countries to fit a narrative. Many of you are way oversimplifying things with preloaded phrases straight out of McCarthyism and it’s really depressing.
If Communism can’t survive or requires totalitarian despotism in the presence of capitalist countries, then it’s an unfit system of government. Governments need to be able survive outside challenges.
“Communism hasn’t been properly tried” is the real bullshit. It doesn’t work, and devolves quickly to authoritarianism.
All states are authoritarian my friend. I would simply rather authority be wielded by the working class.
Yeah I’m sure all the countries involved in operation CONDOR would love that take.
Communism did that when starting with fuedelism or other tyranical systems. when starting with clasical liberal societies it doesn’t improve much. There has never been a capitalist society so who knows how that would fare.