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UBI was never a "selling point" for Communism (except if you have a very vulgar concept of Communism), quite the opposite it's what sustains Capitalism beyond t
by daptaq 9y ago
UBI was never a "selling point" for Communism (except if you have a very vulgar concept of Communism), quite the opposite it's what sustains Capitalism beyond the point it should have already had died off.
- atemerev 9y agoReally? I am Russian, I went to a Soviet school, and I am quite aware what was and what wasn't a selling point for Communism. It was -- down to being mentioned in every socialist realism book, in nearly every major TV report, even as a running joke. There was a line in a popular Soviet movie: "no more worries, no more rat race, robots are toiling, man is happy" -- and this line was taken at a face value, as a defining feature of the future Communist utopia we were all building.