ennuinerdog

How dare teenagers not become Neoliberals while growing up in a late capitalist hellscape where climate change can't be taken seriously because it isn't a profitable problem to solve.

Neither of those countries ever claimed to have a communist mode of production. Being led by a Communist Party and having a communist economic system are two different things. The USSR never claimed to have achieved communism, they achieved socialism (a transitionary phase between capitalism and communism) according to Marxist-Leninist theory.

This is a quote from Engels describing such a transitionary system:

What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect, economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges.

If an advanced capitalist country in the imperial Core, today, attempted a similar transition, it would be nothing like these other examples because our material conditions are entirely different (and closer to Marx's ideal -- Marx didn't expect communism to be tried within individual countries or within undeveloped countries).

Capitalism as it exists outside of the Imperial Core tends to be shit. Eastern Europe is still outside the core for the most part, as is most of the world.

Yeah but anecdotes from my Eastern European relatives who left (no selection bias there) say otherwise, so you're wrong.

This is the most correct political spectrum I've seen in the wild in ages, probably because it's based in materialism instead of pure nonsense.

I remember Voat and numerous other attempts to abandon Reddit.

I really hope that this one sticks but it needs to be very robust (in terms of moderation, server capacity, user friendliness etc) if it is going to handle a large influx of users without breaking down.