• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Well… Communism is directly responsible for multiple famines that killed into the hundreds of millions. Then there are the inevitable purges that have taken millions of lives and hosts of terrors as well.

    You’re free to dispute history if you need to, and claim that theoretically communism is nice, but in practice, history tells us that living under communism reaaaalllyy sucks.

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      2 months ago

      that’s like saying capitalism is directly responsible for school shootings because it happens all the time in the US. but no one’s dumb enough to claim that because that’s not how things work.

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        2 months ago

        well, technically the USSR exported lots and lots of grain during the 30s famine. So.

        It’s still not perfect, but you could argue there was mismanagement there.