Cool!

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?