An interesting point against communism is the lack of drive for innovation it creates. If you’re living in a truly classless society (which has never and does not exist), you have no drive to do better, there is no personal reward to innovate besides progressing your society in ways you’ll likely never see / be rewarded for.
Ah, you know what you’re clearly correct. China, who is not a communist state, has a population of a billion people, and an authoritarian regime who would love nothing more than for it to look like China’s innovating having filed more patents than the next nine countries combined means that Communism drives innovation!
Besides common knowledge, you could also research why China files so many patents (subsidys per patent filed, and the fact China acknowledges utility model and industrial design patents that are not considered patents in most countries [AND these patents make up at least 75% of those filed in China, meaning their number of real (invention) patents is more like ~400,000, and that 75% is conservative.
That second paragraph isn’t necessary though, your point never had legs to stand on.
I know a lot of people push back against this but it’s true in many regards. The vast majority of soviet innovation is directly from government activity and investment. When the Soviet union surpassed western governments in certain fields, it was always heavily funded by the government.
If you step back and look at the small things, consumer products and especially computers, they were extremely behind.
An interesting point against communism is the lack of drive for innovation it creates. If you’re living in a truly classless society (which has never and does not exist), you have no drive to do better, there is no personal reward to innovate besides progressing your society in ways you’ll likely never see / be rewarded for.
This sounds like a neoliberal just-so story that may have come out of The Road to Serfdom.
China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: https://www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents
China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents
Ah, you know what you’re clearly correct. China, who is not a communist state, has a population of a billion people, and an authoritarian regime who would love nothing more than for it to look like China’s innovating having filed more patents than the next nine countries combined means that Communism drives innovation!
Besides common knowledge, you could also research why China files so many patents (subsidys per patent filed, and the fact China acknowledges utility model and industrial design patents that are not considered patents in most countries [AND these patents make up at least 75% of those filed in China, meaning their number of real (invention) patents is more like ~400,000, and that 75% is conservative.
That second paragraph isn’t necessary though, your point never had legs to stand on.
I know a lot of people push back against this but it’s true in many regards. The vast majority of soviet innovation is directly from government activity and investment. When the Soviet union surpassed western governments in certain fields, it was always heavily funded by the government.
If you step back and look at the small things, consumer products and especially computers, they were extremely behind.
For real, government funded space program ≠ innovation at scale