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There is definitely valid criticism to be made, but it can be a bit much at times. (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Mojave -3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Hunger. What other form of economic system has kept people this fed? All communist countries have had famines mass killing their population.

The dust bowl ran a few thousand deaths in America compared to Mao's famine killing millions, Soviet famines killing millions every couple decades, the '90s North Korean famine killed God knows how many people. Americans get fed dogshit slop, but they don't starve.

[–] SoftestSapphic 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's kind of hard to critique communism when capitalism declares war against every instance that sprouts up

Mao was an idiot tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

I'd urge you to compare systems by comparing other factors as well. We know communism produced Stalin, but it produced Stalin as an alternative to the Tsars, who were not much better. The Chinese Empire was also not famous for its humanitarian values. We don't know how Socialist America would look like because it's never happened.

I'm not here to advocate for anything, to be honest I'm on the side of "let's solve actual fucking problems before arguing ideology", but I feel comparing the USSR to the US is a stupid comparison.