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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

See every communist nation in history

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

So large increases in literacy rates, life expectancy, home ownership, education access, healthcare access, and democratization of society is "devolving into a shitshow?"

Do you think Russians were better off under the thumb of the Tsar? Do you think Cubans were happier as slaves in Batista's US-backed slave-state? What point are you genuinely trying to make?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

First part is a result of industrialization.

Second part, no they weren't, but that just means that they were worse off before, not that they were great afterwards.

I genuinely think the idea of communism is great, but human nature will ensure that it will never be successful. There will always be someone who gets greedy and takes more for themselves in the pursuit of wealth and power.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

human nature will ensure that it will never be successful

Human nature is to be kind and helpful. Humans are social creatures. We wouldn't have survived for thousands of years if everyone said "fuck you got mine".

Even if that were true, you are saying we should continue with the system that rewards stuff like greed, rather than try to have a system that doesn't. "Human nature" is an argument for socialism/communism.

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