Communism & Oppression

[Zam-Zam]

Did communism fail economically when it made the USSR the first big country with universal access to electricity and allowed them to build the industrial infrastructure that allowed them to defeat the Nazis' mighty war machine almost single-handedly? When it turned backward, starving China into a modern industrial powerhouse? When it eliminated homelessness in East Germany and Cuba?

It should not be surprising that the earliest socialist countries, stamped from the beginning with the vestiges of their capitalist origins, should reproduce some of the most glaring failures of capitalism. Yet is there a single one where the standard of living did not improve due to the introduction of socialism? Meanwhile the vast majority of the capitalist world has gotten worse and worse off as capitalism has developed, no?

Yes. Communism failed economically, and the Soviet Union is no more.

It always fails. Thanks for bringing up the USSR and proving my point for me.

 

[EatTheRich]

Yes. Communism failed economically, and the Soviet Union is no more.

It always fails. Thanks for bringing up the USSR and proving my point for me.

Did you notice that the standard of living plummeted in Russia, Ukraine, etc., with the reintroduction of capitalism?

 

[Zam-Zam]

Did you notice that the standard of living plummeted in Russia, Ukraine, etc., with the reintroduction of capitalism?

Did you notice the collapse of the Soviet Union?

 

[EatTheRich]

Did you notice the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Yes. The collapse of Stalin’s “prison house of nations”—something which Lenin and Trotsky opposed the creation of—was a victory for the masses and a defeat for imperialism (in fact, the CIA correctly assessed the collapse of the Soviet Union as a loss for U.S. imperialism and attempted to prevent it).