• daninet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Communism meant that there were equal people and some more equal than others. If you have convinced the right people they got funds to do things. But it is highly burocratic and slow unless instructions come from above. Communism also meant that everyone capable of working must work so they made up many-many bullshit jobs where people just spend time.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t get why you’re downvoted. Probably all the people who’ve never actually lived in communist states.

      • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Very true of the criticisms of the USSR, to be sure. What you have to remember is that the USSR had a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party system implementing the so-called “dictatorship of the proletariat” in order to, at some point in the future, achieve “true” communism. The USSR was intended more as a transition phase than a permanent form of government & economy. For many reasons, it did not work out.

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          For many reasons, it did not work out.

          For many reasons that anarchists had perfectly predicted long before the Russian revolution, of course.

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      1 year ago

      Communism meant that there were equal people and some more equal than others

      No, it doesn’t. If that’s what you think, it means Animal Farm went straight over your head.