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URSS, Mao's china, other communist regimes throughout the 20th century. Capitalism doesn't equalize, it tries to maximize.
by Izikiel43 1y ago
URSS, Mao's china, other communist regimes throughout the 20th century.
Capitalism doesn't equalize, it tries to maximize.
- dragonwriter 1y agoThey used equality as a rhetorical pretext for empowering a different narrow elite that the one than the revolutionary cadre replaced.
- Izikiel43 1y agoWeird though that every time the same thing ended up happening.
- komali2 1y agoUSSR and Maoist PRC indeed took actions that killed millions, but so did capitalist India or mercantilist Britain or hegemonic America. I don't see a correlation between "forcing equality," which I'm not really even sure those regimes did (since Party members were clearly unequal in their power and quality of life), and the deaths. Just politics.