“Minor” nitpick: there was a communist revolution in 1917 in Russia and Ukraine. But after Lenin came back from western european comfort, seized power and murdered all the revolutionaries with the help of his friend Trotsky, there was no communism afterwards, only State capitalism.
I mean it makes sense that the majority of the remaining population has decent standard of living when you have slave work in the gulags… under that standard, nazi Germany also had good economic standards thanks to the working camps. That doesn’t make any of these approaches good.
It would help your point that mutualizing (and fairly sharing) resources is an overall improvement to humanity, if you were not confusing actual communism (such as the zapatistas are practicing to this day) with genocidal tyranny.
“Minor” nitpick: there was a communist revolution in 1917 in Russia and Ukraine. But after Lenin came back from western european comfort, seized power and murdered all the revolutionaries with the help of his friend Trotsky, there was no communism afterwards, only State capitalism.
I mean it makes sense that the majority of the remaining population has decent standard of living when you have slave work in the gulags… under that standard, nazi Germany also had good economic standards thanks to the working camps. That doesn’t make any of these approaches good.
It would help your point that mutualizing (and fairly sharing) resources is an overall improvement to humanity, if you were not confusing actual communism (such as the zapatistas are practicing to this day) with genocidal tyranny.