A Cool Dude@lemmy.mlM to Comics@lemmy.ml · 21 days ago“Communism bad”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square681fedilinkarrow-up1877arrow-down1159
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minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·21 days agoWhat you’re talking about here are results of industrialization. The same can be said for capitalist countries during the Industrial Revolution.
minus-squareCowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down8·21 days agoThey were not. The USSR had free healthcare, education, incredibly cheap housing, all while it was far less developed than Western Countries. Development helped, yes, but what helped the most was Proletarian control and direction, not Bourgeois.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down8·21 days agoAll while draining its member states of their wealth and human capital…
What you’re talking about here are results of industrialization. The same can be said for capitalist countries during the Industrial Revolution.
They were not. The USSR had free healthcare, education, incredibly cheap housing, all while it was far less developed than Western Countries. Development helped, yes, but what helped the most was Proletarian control and direction, not Bourgeois.
All while draining its member states of their wealth and human capital…