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The Soviet Union was just the same old russian feudalism with a new name tag and leadership. In a sense even modern-day russians are still not emancipated citiz
by TomK32 2y ago
The Soviet Union was just the same old russian feudalism with a new name tag and leadership. In a sense even modern-day russians are still not emancipated citizens like we are in the West.
- b800h 2y agoAbsolute rubbish. This is a classic trope of the fully-brainwashed. The bread queues that resulted from collectivised agriculture that couldn't respond to market conditions had nothing to do with feudalism. The mass-murder of the middle-classes in Cambodia had nothing to do with feudalism. Communism is a brutal, oppressive system that has to erase individual liberty in order to force people to comply with its absurd, unfair rules. If it was so great, why didn't the Russians just vote it back in again?
- croisillon 2y agothey wrote "same old russian feudalism" and "still not emancipated citizens" and you non-sequitur it with "if it was so great"..?
- b800h 2y agoFair point - my argument is that it added a load of additional garbage on top. It clearly didn't achieve anything substantially positive, and it hasn't done anywhere it's been tried.
- croisillon 2y agoi agree with that and i believe the person you answered to agrees as well
- b800h 2y agoI'm not so sure. Sounded like apologism to me, which is dangerous, frankly.
- eru 2y ago'Real Socialism has never been tried'?