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Is Communism good?
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Yes 375 66.25%
No 191 33.75%
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ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
An imbalance of wealth is a good and healthy thing for an economy.

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ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Marx and Engels were gay lovers, thus communism can only be viewed through the lens of grunting, sweaty man-love.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

gobbagool posted:

Was there any consumer product (no, AK-47s were not consumer products in USSR, only here) that the USSR or any other worker's paradise made better and more efficiently than in the west?

No. The best the Soviets could ever do was making inferior copies of Western technology, and that was mostly in their military. Consumer products were even worse-- take a look at some of the hilariously lovely Russian cars and consumer electronics that have been made, for example.

Even today, decades after the fall of the Wall, Russia still hasn't caught up techwise with the rest of the world for the most part.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

TomViolence posted:

Oh, poo poo, the human nature argument, marxism's only weakness.

Pack it in, boys, the past 150 years of revolutionary struggle have been for naught.

It pretty much has been considering that any attempt to try communism on a larger scale than a single tiny commune has resulted in a third world shithole.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

OwlFancier posted:

lol if you think that democracy can coexist with private ownership of the means of production.

In most of the western world it does and has for centuries now, so I'm not sure what kind of lame rear end burn this is supposed to be.

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ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

OwlFancier posted:

Uh, Marx is not remotely mystical. It's literally called dialectical materialism for a very good reason.

What it's called and how it's treated by it's proponents are not the same thing.

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