Failed is an interesting word to use when describing liberation of billions of people from the yoke of capitalism and colonialism. Only somebody who've never had to personally experience capitalist exploitation would make the sort of false equivalence you're making between communist and capitalist states.

[–] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Millions of people "liberated" so they can work in the people's factories and labor camps, spend time in the people's prisons for political activities, be executed for being gay or muslim, and starve while those in power feast in abundance. Please tell me more about how that's different from capitalism?!

(i'll ignore the ad-hominem which really doesn't serve your point :))

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I implore you to learn a modicum of history.

[–] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Are you saying the queer/muslim massacres of Stalin are just a dream? That Trotsky's political police was in fact throwing parties with the people they disappeared? Or that the labor camps were just a day spa for exhausted workers? I implore you to learn a modicum of history.