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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago (81 children)

A communist nation that can really provide all that is as realistic as capitalistic utopia.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

In what communist country was housing a problem?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is a trick question, the real answer is that there weren’t real communist countries

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the final refuge for tankies. That and the old "social democracy only works by exploiting the global south" canard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

“social democracy only works by exploiting the global south” canard.

Yeah, I could see finding this unconvincing if you haven't read theory, history, or were just cool with benefiting from imperialism

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