Can someone debunk the stupid “communism only works on paper” argument? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I vaguely remember a user debunking this claim but I cannot find that comment and I don’t remember what post it was on.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Name me 2 deindustrialised feudal States that have transitioned to become world superpowers without imperialism and colonisation. uSSR and China.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

The USSR went from a semi-feudal backwater that lost WWI and a ton of European territory to winning WWII and putting the first humans in space

Inside of one generation

[+] [email protected] -33 points 2 years ago

And then it collapsed due to corruption, central planning and budget deficits.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

And were the people of the former USSR better off?

Male life expectancy at birth in Russia fell by six years between 1991 and 1994, from an already-low 63.4 years to 57.4 years over that period, an almost unprecedented decrease in life expectancy in three years.Footnote1 Female life expectancy followed a similar but less extreme pattern, falling from 74.2 to 71.1 years from 1991 to 1994

If your government is better than what came before it and better than what came after it...

[+] [email protected] -30 points 2 years ago

Well yes, most former Soviet satellite states went into recession because companies where no longer state funded and had to be profitable and compete on the global market (do you know any good cars, computers or electronics from eastern European countries?), government funding went down in all sectors and taxes went up to get the budget back on track which caused mass unemployment. This happened because the previous government was running a huge deficit, and no other states would agree on any trade deals or credits until the finances where back in order.

Sincerely, someone who was born there long before the 90s.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

someone who was born there long before the 90s

Then you must be aware that the vast majority of the people living in the USSR wanted to keep it.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

"Left to the free market, quality of life plummeted" is not the argument you think it is.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

do you know any good cars, computers or electronics from eastern European countries?

Yeah, but under names like Siemens or Renault. When the USSR was illegally overthrown, their assets were sold to capitalist companies for pennies on the dollar, literal looting. They got absorbed and their name destroyed.

The USSR was restoring and editing pictures digitally 3 years before Photoshop was ever released (and the best it had in that department was the clone tool) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PsiJXswiM

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Did Stalin take out a large spoon and eat all of your parent’s grain as well?

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