cm0002Capitalism in theory vs capitalism in practice
PhoenixzCool!
Now do communism
Communism in Theory
- Everyone on equal footing
- Everyone’s basic human rights are met (Healthcare, Housing, Safety & Security)
Communism in practice
- Authoritarianism
- Homo/Trans-Phobia
We’ve yet to have true communism anywhere in my opinion. It opens up too baby pathways to corruption and tyranny that so far have always been taken up by someone or some group.
Being from ex-soviet state (although the one most hated by tankies), I can say that older folks still remember how there were constantly talks about reaching communism in next 20 years, and, of course, there years didn’t count down.
Funny, because when surveyed, most older folks in ex-soviet states say that life was actually better under the socialists than it is now. Like, it still wasn’t perfect, but most people felt more secure, had more access to housing, jobs, and necessities, and felt like the people around them were actually working together for the common good to build something equitable.
I imagine the tyranny was less felt in rural areas where a true sense of community still existed. And id correlate longer living wonders with living in those rural areas too. Wonder if that could be a reason?
So, in first few decades (if we ignore some elephants in the room, that my grandparents had to survive) living in village meant you belonged to entity, called “колгосп” (collective farmstead may be the best translation), people there didn’t even have USSR passports, just some papers about them belonging to that place. Villagers were paid for their work mainly by being allowed to take home some of the produce they made, and, most interestingly, they were heavily taxed for dumbest shit imaginable - if you, for example, had an apple tree in your backyard - yep, that’s a tax. Few strains of Ukrainian apples got extinct simply because of that. Later it got better, but at first people had to work for food and were perpetually in debt.
Or it could be that life actually was better…
I didn’t refute that…
samus12345True communism only world on a small scale. As soon as there are enough people that everyone doesn’t know everyone else, it collapses.
It really puts the community in communism
Yup, kinda the whole point! And why the authoritarian “communist” governments are BS.
I guess like communes right? Now that i at it it sounds stupid just saying it considering the name
Yes, exactly like communes.