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> Communist popular revolutions succeeded in replacing the previous elites. None of them resulted in a higher quality of life for the people. Utterly and demon

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > Utterly and demonstrably false Fair enough, I added the exception that’s known. If someone thinks there is Tsarist-level economic mismanagement in America to be reaped by a new regime, I have a DOGE to sell them.
  • clanky 1y ago
    China and Cuba were also both unquestionably improvements over the status quo. The neoliberal turn in Russia in the 1990s, meanwhile, was an unmitigated humanitarian disaster, and the removal of the USSR as an alternative on the world stage unshackled Western capital to the current relentless pursuit of advantage that has yielded today's K-shaped economy and all the instability, misery, and scapegoating of powerless groups like migrants that has come with it.
    • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > China and Cuba were also both unquestionably improvements over the status quo Fair enough. I'd point out that both had low baselines, and the former managed to still fuck that up under Mao. China's living standards dropped post Revolution, and didn't really start materially improving until its leaders had swapped away from communism. By that point, they proceeded to fabulously enrich themselves. > neoliberal turn in Russia in the 1990s, meanwhile, was an unmitigated humanitarian disaster Agree. > unshackled Western capital to the current relentless pursuit of advantage that has yielded today's K-shaped economy This was happening since at least the 1980s.