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by golergka 2999 days ago
> most of them only paid the tiniest bit of lip service to what Marx envisioned

Oh, the old "no real scotsman" argument. See, the whole communist ideology is like convincing people to jump of a cliff so they can fly: when they inevitably fall to their death, you just tell that since they didn't fly, it wasn't what you envisioned.

Dictatorship and blood is the inevitable outcome of Marx's ideas executed on scale of millions. As inevitable as gravity.
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KozmoNau7 2999 days ago
Yet another examples of a completely rigid worldview, no doubt caused by decades of anti-socialism propaganda and indoctrination. There is absolutely no call for the frothing-at-the-mouth reaction so commonly seen from free market/capitalism proponents.

Did you read the article?

https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-com...

Marxism and what happened in countries like USSR, China and Cambodia only have an extremely tenuous connection, most of it related to the propaganda fed to the populace to force the tyrannical regime on them, without too much opposition.

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golergka 2999 days ago
> no doubt caused by decades of anti-socialism propaganda and indoctrination

Dude, I live and Moscow. My whole family survived 70 years of communism. I seen first hand how capitalism and free markets raised us from hunger and poverty to first world country living standards.

Please, don't make assumptions about people on the internet, you may end up completely wrong.

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KozmoNau7 2998 days ago
In that case you should also have noticed the crushing poverty "enjoyed" by many Russians, while the über-capitalist oligarchs live in outrageous luxury.

If you think the majority of people in Russia enjoy a first world standard of living, you're sorely mistaken. Moscow is very much an outlier.

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golergka 2998 days ago
> In that case you should also have noticed the crushing poverty "enjoyed" by many Russians

Compared to Soviet Union, modern Russia is light years ahead. Of course, all this progress is built on the foundation laid down in the 90s, and is slowly deteriorating away for the last 10 years.

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