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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

Communism in theory vs in practice

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Communism in theory vs in practice

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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago
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  • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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    The USSR is responsible for the largest decrease in poverty in all of world history

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        https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

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        How very Malthusian of you to think killing poor people lowers poverty.

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          1 apple, 2 people, 1/2 apple per person.

          1 apple, 1 person, 1 apple per person.

          It’s not a good fix, it’s not a long-term fix, but in the short term you can claim to have lowered poverty by getting rid of a lot of mouths you’d otherwise need to feed.

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      Finland decreased its poverty between 1917 and 1991 more than Soviet Union did. In the beginning of year 1917 Finland was a part of the Russian Empire, so we were extremely poor here as well. Soviet Union could be on the second place, perhaps. But, since there is at least one country that fared better, the claim you made it evidently false. There can very well be other countries than just Finland that decreased poverty more than USSR did. I do not know for sure, though, as I’m not terribly well aware of how faraway places like Chile or Burma were faring in 1917.

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        China is second place

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