this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
912 points (86.8% liked)
Memes
45730 readers
817 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Won by communists? Bruh. My country has climbed the ranks as one of the best countries in terms of HDI, happiness, etc. All the communists ever did was threaten and spy on us.
Pure communism will never happen and will never function. Humans are human and don't want equality, we need something to thrive for.
Does your country's QOL not come at anyone's expense, disproportionately? The Global South's for instance?
Yes, and both of our countries are wrong for it.
Any concessions capitalists have given the working class in your country are likely due to their fear of a proletariat uprising in your own country because a socialist country was on your doorstep. Turns out when people see that other people are able to seize back the power in their country and don't have to lick boots they start to think, "huh, maybe we could do that here too."
This scared the shit out of those in power, so they gave social concessions. After the fall of nearby socialist states, you'll see those concessions slowly erode as capitalism begins eating its own ass again and they "need" more profits at the expense of your social welfare. If it hasn't happened yet, just wait until your country can no longer export the levels of exploitation they need for unlimited growth.
Go read a history book and think critically before posting such stupid shit online again. It was the capitalist countries who began shit with the communist countries and that continues to be true to this very day. Ask yourself, how many foreign communist military bases were there? Sure sounds like they were the aggressor compared to capitalists in this regard.
equality sounds nice but its boring is completely applied to everything.
No it's not, because that literally has never happened. The propaganda of "under communism everyone will eat dry bread and live in grey cubes" is both not rooted in actual examples. In those times and states there were both still a privileged elite and the majority of world superpowers were not only not participating in the sharing of resources, they were actively attacking it either indirectly through political pressure or directly through literally killing people.
If we had actual true global equality everyone would be doing better than you're probably doing right now.
And it will never happen. Everyone is greedy and corrupt.
You perhaps?
Spoken like someone benefiting from the status quo
thankfully!