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This is empirically untrue.
by direwolf20 3y ago
This is empirically untrue.
- DeathArrow 3y agoWe already tested this in communist countries.
- edrxty 3y agoWill this ever die? None of the societies that people point and scream about were actually communist in any real sense. They were just random flavors of authoritarianism wrapped in incoherent bits of Marxist–Leninist and/or Maoist ideology, both of which are the furthest thing from any of the popular left-communist and anarcho-socialist movements that exist in the US. To put it in perspective, the Soviets literally rolled tanks on striking union workers and students in Hungary and killed thousands of people because they were (to heavily summarize) the wrong kind of communists. This is where the phrase "tankie" comes from.
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoThat's an obvious strawman. Regulation against market failures is not equivalent to central planning.
- palemoonale 3y agoWhy not just one-up it and seize the means of production, i mean seize unused private property? Of course they'd have to label it as market regulation. (Coming from a country where options for private property and private means of production were once pretty limited)
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoAgain, a straw man. The motivation of the OP is nuscances driven by the vacancies such as pest infestations. That's an entirely reasonable concern to regulate. If you want to talk with actual seriousness and intellectual honesty I will. If you just want to do this I'm not going to waste my time.
- shortsunblack 3y agoPost-communist countries have highest rates of home ownership. It seems like it worked.
- readthenotes1 3y agoWe've also tested it in the capitalist societies. There is a reason why regulations exist and you could probably read up on history to find some of them