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I have a very good Polish friend who lived through communism and related corruption to recall queues for essentials and cultural repression as a Catholic nation.
I think we should learn from the past and not try to recreate the issues due to flawed ideology.
We can do better. We really are all in this together and hopefully progress together. Do you know the 'Doughnut'?
https://youtu.be/4ttKueHEUig
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 @yogthos @yogthos @yogthos @mrjonno every human society is flawed, that's the reality. The claim that Marx is somehow out of time gets repeated often, yet if you actually read Marx then you'll see that his writings are very much relevant to our time and what's happening in the world today. And I have no idea what gbtqia has to do with communism to be honest. @mrjonno I must also assume that you're entirely unaware that GDR was a pioneer of many lgbtqia rights? https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/gay-liberation-behind-iron-curtain/ @mrjonno and of course you're evidently entirely aware of the fact that Cuba exists https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/26/cuba-overwhelmingly-approves-same-sex-marriage-in-referendum @yogthos @yogthos |
@mrjonno I literally grew up in USSR, but yes do tell me more about what my life there was really like π€¦ββοΈ
What the west has accomplished is worse than USSR in every way imaginable.
Nobody is claiming that USSR war perfect, or that we can't do better. However, one has to be deplorably ignorant that USSR wasn't a net positive for the world.
And collapse of USSR was a tragedy for millions of people
https://academic.oup.com/cje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cje/beac072/7081084?guestAccessKey=01c8dd9f-af1c-48b3-b271-eb5d3a45017c&login=false
@mrjonno I literally grew up in USSR, but yes do tell me more about what my life there was really like π€¦ββοΈ
What the west has accomplished is worse than USSR in every way imaginable.
Nobody is claiming that USSR war perfect, or that we can't do better. However, one has to be deplorably ignorant that USSR wasn't a net positive for the world.