• leriotdelac@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Russian here. Some people hate communism because they lived through that shit, and didn’t like it.

    (Can’t say I like what came afterwards either heh.)

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            10 hours ago

            No? Its economy was nothing like the Republic of Korea, Singapore, US, etc. The economy was overwhelmingly publicly owned and planned and the working classes controlled the state.

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              10 hours ago

              working classes controlled the state

              😭😭😭😭

              the state owned all the capital. workers owned nothing

              state capitalist

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                10 hours ago

                The working classes collectively owned the overwhelming majority of the economy. You are drawing a hard line between workers within administration and workers outside of administration where such a hard line does not exist. Your analysis is more of a moralist stance, not a materialist or otherwise Marxist stance.

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                    Source for which aspect specifically? I touched on the nature of class, which is more straight from Marx and Engels, and I also touched on materialism, which I can recommend sources for dialectical materialism. If you need a source on the economy being overwhelmingly publicly owned and planned, then I think even Wikipedia can help, but I can recommend other works if you want to dive into the specifics.