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by nec4b 1y ago
>>1. Black Book of Communism Are you contending existence of mass murders under almost any communist regime? What agenda are you talking about? You are making it sound communism is a noble idea, which someone is trying to discredit un
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They are both the same. One wants one true race society and the the other one true class society. The only way tho achieve one or the other state is by eliminating those who don't conform (Holocaust and Holodomor). It's despicable
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>> Yugoslav communism looked like people with high standards of living You're just making things up as you go, aren't you? More then a million Yugoslavs left the country as "Gastarbeiters" to be able to feed them
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by nec4b 1y ago
>> about inequality in communist countries- these countries had much less inequality than western countries. Maybe some, while others had much higher inequality. E.g. Tito lived like a king. Not only did he amass huge private fortune,
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No it's impossible, because if the state steps down, other criminal associations will take it's role. You are effectively saying, if we delete mentions of gravity in physics textbooks, it will cease to exit.
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>> It'd be quite easy to prevent private ownership of land or large businesses without black markets for those things forming. Quite impossible actually.
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At one point almost 40% of the world population lived in communist countries. They had more then enough people and resources to make it. If by pressure of capitalism you mean pressure of reality, then yes they mostly folded one by one and s
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by nec4b 1y ago
>>There are no countries in this world where capitalism is not the dominant factor. That is certainly news for North Koreans or Cubans. >> This has been true for centuries. Soviet Union would like a word with you. What they did
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Which country not driven by capitalism is doing better in regards to environment?
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Is it possible for you drive over the border to Mexico and have best Mexican food costing almost nothing. Can you fly to Caribbean or Hawaii over the weekend? Can you camp in Grand Canyon, Yosemite or Yellowstone? Your view is in no way rep
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>> Your average rich person is an average person with average intelligence, average knowledge I'm pretty sure the distribution curves for average rich person and average intelligence are not aligned. That is basic biology and sta
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>> Rich people is just average people with money. I suppose you can play basketball as good as Luka Doncic or write and perform songs as good as Taylor Swift?
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Are you proposing moving Israel to another location?
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>> The problem with nuclear reactors isn't that their pollution couldn't disposed of with ideal methods but that when they run by for-profit corporations, you will always have the company skirting the edge of what's saf
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Only some parts were industrialized. Most of the the best companies were existing before Yugoslavia. They were nationalized after the revolution, the owners killed or they escaped to the west. Very little new industry was developed by the r
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by nec4b 1y ago
I really like what you wrote, because it demonstrates what kids in Yugoslavia were thought from a young age. There was this idea of a foreign enemy that it there to get them and any economic and political fault in the country was because of
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Thank you comrade to alleviate us peasants of having to think too much on our own.
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by nec4b 1y ago
That is such a big lie. There was no worker self-management in practice. All the companies had leadership structure like most companies have today. Those leading them, were loyal members of the communist party and were politically appointed
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by nec4b 1y ago
If you had lived in then you should know the standard of living was poor. More then a million people left to work in Germany as Gastarbeiters to send money home. Gas was limited. Common goods had to be brought through the border with Austri
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In Yugoslavia you couldn't even get bananas or coffee or jeans. People had to go to Italy or Austria to buy it. You had to wait more than a year to get a car. Of course then there was no gas for it. Inflation ate your paycheck before y
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by nec4b 1y ago
You are free to expand on why you think it's condescending, since you brought it up.
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by nec4b 1y ago
It is only useless on mindless elitist mind. Why would it be condescending to remind people actions have consequences?
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Do you know the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"?
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America will gain the know-how how to make such factories and maintain them. Use the knowledge and experience to make more such factories in other fields. A whole industry can grow around it. Do you think factories in China pop-up like mush
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by nec4b 2y ago
>> Housing is a fundamental human right. No it's not. A fundamental human freedom is to build or to buy a house. Nobody is owned a house.
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by nec4b 2y ago
Which tech bros? Aren't most tech companies owners against current administration? Hardly anyone donated to the Trump campaign in the elections.
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by nec4b 2y ago
Question for all the people who suddenly don't want to have anything to do with Musk or anything American really. Do you feel the same about Chinese manufactured goods or using oil and gas from the middle east or Russia?
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by nec4b 2y ago
>> America's image is toxic to everyone right now (including its own citizens). That is evidently not true. You being unhappy, doesn't make the whole world unhappy too.
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by nec4b 2y ago
>> Personally I do feel betrayed as well and for the first time in my life I've started looking for where the product I consume come from. Do you own anything made in China or have ever used oil and gas from Russia?

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