• Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    Both can be true. Over time the Soviet Union economy got worse because there was no corrective mechanism. A lot of the leadership (especially Stalin) was more interested in maintaining their own power than governing effectively. The Soviet Union being subject to US interference couldn’t be a democracy, but it’s difficult to correct errors in the economy without democracy.

    China has managed to overcome the issue of dictatorships, and it’ll be interesting to see what’ll happen as America shoots itself in the foot.

  • ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw
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    26 days ago

    Never in my life did I ever expect to be seeing this much soviet propoganda.

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      25 days ago

      It just feels that way when exposed to non-empire approved facts after a lifetime of pro-empire propaganda.

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    26 days ago

    Communism is not about an economy, but about freedom of science, education, and general peoples wellbeing

    So stop fucking measuring it by Capitalist standards

    Its like calling a Banana a lesser fruit because it has less seeds in it than a cocoa fruit.

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      15 days ago

      Economy is just “the state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services”

      So no, it doesn’t have to be capitalist, it just has to facilitate the production and consumption of goods and services.

      If a communist government distributes food among its citizens, that is facilitating the consumption of goods. That’s economy.