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Socialism, it’s in the country name.
by rrssh 7y ago
Socialism, it’s in the country name.
- vkou 7y agoA transition state towards communism. That's what the government officially called it. The country spent 74 years in that 'transition' state. It had little in common with the socialist democracies of Europe, nothing in common with the communist proscriptions of Marx, and some in common with the much maligned state capitalism of today's China.
- inawarminister 7y agoYes. Real communism have never been tried. Perhaps impossible to try. We'd be better off brainstorming a new, 21st century solution to the excess of capitalism, rather than relying on the industrial past.
- anoncake 7y ago> We'd be better off brainstorming a new, 21st century solution to the excess of capitalism, rather than relying on the industrial past. That sounds like something a socialist would say: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/socialism-as-a-set-of-principles https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/socialism-as-a-set-of...
- anoncake 7y agoDemocratic People's Republic of North Korea