• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    22 hours ago

    Communism lifted an illiterate nation of serfs into an industrial and atomic super power in, like, 50 years.

    Which is to say just as bad as capitalism but approximately four times faster.

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      21 hours ago

      Heard someone say that their grandparents who left the USSR during the collapse in the early 90’s told them something along the lines of “not everything the Soviet government promised us about communism was true, but everything they told us about capitalism is true.”

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      18 hours ago

      I don’t think any of the nations who call themselves “communists” can actually be considered communist. Hell, most of them are pretty much dictatorships, which is the farthest you can get from communism.

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      18 hours ago

      It was also responsible for the highly anti-intellectual culture that existed and still continues in said country today. So it swings both ways.

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        7 hours ago

        Anti-intellectual cultire fixated on higher education? I’m not saying that we don’t have collective mental disorders. Maybe during Stalin(see Doctors’ Case, cybernetics and genetics), but generally no.

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          The whole sctick of the Bolsheviks was to equalize everyone. Anyone that specialized in anything was demonized. Was the country started starving, that’s when higher education and allowing citizens to specialize again started to become the focus.