• michaelrose
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    1 year ago

    Socialism and communism aren’t really the same thing and entirely aside from what sham wig the USSR put on its corrupt kleptocracy it was a brutal dictatorship that murdered 10s of millions and created mass starvation. How can you have socialism/communism if you replace the market with decisions dictated by some asshole that you all didn’t pick and can’t remove if he fucks up. I don’t see how you can possibly have socialism or indeed ANY economic system without a functional democracy. I also don’t understand how you can look at the history of the USSR and call THAT clusterfuck success.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      1 year ago

      Socialism is just a transition step between capitalism and socialism, you can read up on the relationship here https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3228-lenin-s-three-theoretical-arguments-about-the-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat

      Meanwhile, the studies I provided completely debunk the nonsense about USSR you keep regurgitating here. Maybe spend a bit a of time learning about USSR and how it actually worked. It was far more democratic than any capitalist regime. The very fact that it dissolved peacefully is proof of that. No autocratic regime would just give up power peacefully.

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        1 year ago

        You don’t think Stalins Russia was an autocratic regime? He murdered to get and keep power and was murdered in turn. Their successor state is run by a dictator! There is no dictatorship of the proletariat forthcoming. The withering away of the state is fiction.