• novibe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Capitalism =/= markets.

    Socialism =/= public services.

    Markets are much older than capitalism, and socialism is a very simple economic idea, being the collective ownership of the means of production by the workers.

    Capitalism guides innovation towards increasing profits for capitalist, hardly “innovative”. The USSR was the first to the Moon, after being a feudalistic society, thanks to socialism.

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      1 year ago

      Imean, the USSR wasn’t even good socialism. They still used money for quite a large set of things, businesses were very much NOT worker owned in many places, people could be killed by the whims of authorities and a dictator… Yep, not even good socialism got to space first.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, not having money is a communism thing, not socialism.

        But most businesses in the USSR were co-ops or state-owned.

        I’m not in the “the dictatorship of the proletariat is identical to collective ownership” camp, but I mean, that is in the end a difference of ideology regarding what socialism really is.

        And…. What dictator? I mean, all that “there’s no freedom in the USSR, if Stalin thinks you’re ugly you go to the gulag” is 100% propaganda, right? I mean the CIA admitted in their secret reports that not even Stalin was really a dictator, but that disclosing that wouldn’t be politically favourable to the US.

        And like… I don’t think the USSR killed anymore people than the US or Europe lmao

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          “there’s no freedom in the USSR, if Stalin thinks you’re ugly you go to the gulag” is 100% propaganda, right?

          Sure buddy. That was just a psyop that the MAN wants us to believe so we don’t revolt and bring back communism.

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            1 year ago

            Oh no, I’m brainwashed! Lmao

            Sure buddy. Go back to believing everything your school textbooks and journalists on TV have been saying since the Cold War.