As a Venezuelan currently living in Venezuela, I have always believed that the problem is not so much communism / socialism, but rather the incompetence and corruption of our leaders.
In fact, I could argue that if it weren’t for my country’s socialist policies, I and many people would have died of disease (COVID) or starvation.
I would think, as a Venezuelan living in Venezuela, your main problem would be the USA.
It always has been...
Last century and a half, sure. I'm pretty sure the Spanish were the problem there before that.
If all communism is soviet, then all capitalism is colonialism and chattel slavery.
Fun fact about NATO and the Warsaw Pact:
Only one of these two entities had a fuckton of defection to the other side.
People wanted to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
Imagine having to take extraordinary measures and worrying constantly whenever your sports teams, musicians, dancers go play or perform outside of your sphere of influence, because of the high risk of them defecting.
That's exactly what winning social conditions doesn't generate.
The problem is always about authority. The system that enforces the rules is more important than the rules themselves
Communism typically fails because the systems that manage it are corruptible. Capitalism has the opposite problem. If there are no rules surrounding what industry is allowed to do, they will always choose the most profitable thing.
The systems that manage capitalism are also corruptible.
Any time it is possible for one person to control more resources than others, there will be corruption.
Capitalism has the opposite problem. If there are no rules surrounding what industry is allowed to do, they will always choose the most profitable thing.
That's a lot of words to say that capitalism fails because the systems that manage it are corruptible.
It's not at all the opposite problem, it's just a different flavor of the same one. Capital infests the bodies that govern it to remove regulations that limit what capital can do, leading to the problems you mention. Not sure why you think the two situations are at all different.
Prescriptively adhering to a communist ideology: ❌
Prescriptively adhering to a capitalist ideology: ❌
Structuring a government to be free of corruption and able to efficiently and rationally respond to problems: ✅
Except the rational way to respond to our current issues is communism. Especially compared to the field of economics, communism and dialectical materialism is closer to what is observed in studies relating to work, living conditions and resource management.
"government free of corruption"
"rationally respond to problems"
And get this, we've convinced them it's impossible, and not even worth trying! They roll their eyes at the idea! Some of them even fight against it!
None of them even care to find out that some countries have been pretty much free of corruption for years!
mfs will say "we don't need communist or capitalism, we need a new separate third thing!" then describe Dengism.
A tankie’s dialogue options:
- It wasn’t real communism
- It was great. She’s just influenced by US propaganda
- It would’ve worked if it weren’t for US sabotage
- Capitalism is way worse!!
And hopefully it will continue IF you can keep the government for the people and keep billionaires, corporations, and authoritarians from having too much influence.
is this bait?
Same energy as "I have a black friend, I can't be racist." but with the uneducated smugness of a liberal.
Your "communist Polish grandpa" is irrelevant, nobody cares about his opinion. It's standard reactionary drivel.
A recent poll conducted by INSCOP Research for the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) reveals that more than half of Romanians (55.8%) believe that the communist regime was "rather a good thing for Romania."
What was grandma doing in the 1940s?
Still better than capitalism according to them though.
And I'm sure the polling methodology by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile was completely nonbiased, and respondents still view it more positively.
So what was grandma doing in the 1940s?
USA can have one Socialism as a treat (it seems to be going well enough in Canada)
I was thinking about this yesterday, isn't our "retirement" system a sort of reverse socialist policy? It's socialist policy for corporations.
You pay a corporation so they can benefit (stocks) until you are old enough to retire and then pray there is money left to take back out to retire with as opposed to just fucking paying taxes and then the government would give you a retirement distribution when it's time...
If you buy stocks that money goes to the previous stock holder, which is most generally not the corporation.
Makes sense. For the sake of simplicity and to help my understanding say a company sells 100 stocks at $1, people buy and sell them amongst themselves after the full 100 have already been purchased causing the price to increase to $2, the company only ever took in $100 as it was the initial sale even though there is potentially $200 out there?
If that is the case then why do we even talk about "billionaires" based on their company stock prices?
I think their stock valuations are typically of the stock they own rather than total stock. Bezos for instance owns 8% of Amazon.
The few attempts at communism have nothing on the all life on earth destroying efficiency of runaway capitalism. Literally billions of people and animals have been wiped out with colonialism and capitalism. We really need to start getting more enlightened on various forms of government that have been tried and build a better constitution after the inevitable revolution otherwise these pedophile ghouls will just build us another cage. Also, it’s very important we start identifying narcissists, wealth hoarders and psychopaths as mentally ill and removing their ability to gain any levers of power. It seems like a lot of failed systems were destroyed because narcissists and psychopaths were rewarded for their mental illness. https://coupsaveamerica.substack.com/p/capitalisms-deadly-legacy-hundreds
Communism and socialism do not necessarily equal whatever USSR was doing.
We may support socialism and communism without left imperialism and occupation.
Here they come!
Okay fed.
Typical reactionary Pole
After informing this lady I know her grandpa was a CIA plant and deserved to be shot for protesting:
Fuggen librul nozi it wasn't rael communism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum
Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?
Yes - 77,85% No - 22,15%