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    2 years ago

    So USSR was a dictatorship, the country was in ruin after WW2

    The 3 factor i mentioned are there.

    The data shows what everyone knows, capitalism increase inequality. But what it doesn’t show is how communism made the country improve, because it didn’t.

    What i’m saying is, it couldn’t help because of the war and Stalin. We don’t know if it would’ve otherwise.

    Cuba again is a dictatorship, and wasn’t rich.

    The PRC is a dictatorship, China went on a horrible famine with Mao. Nowadays getting richer only because of how their economy is now fully capitalist.

    So let’s say you had significant data that showed it improved some things socially. And let say you somehow managed to prove its causal and not coincidence.

    I would still rather not say dictatorships like USSR or PRC are good to live under.

    That’s my point, even if communism was good, dictatorship is a plague that makes any system a nightmare.

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        2 years ago

        Sorry i’m harsh Cuba isn’t quite a dictatorship i give you that one (Although not quite democratic either), maybe that could be a good study.

        But saying Stalin or Mao are not dictatorships is just delusional.

        The CIA as a source is pretty funny though.

        I get it Stalin didn’t quite have all powers, like that’s what it took to classify a government a dictatorship. As if one-party system couldn’t be complex.

        (And yes socialist market economy, that really makes a world of difference from capitalist market)

        Also to make things clear i wouldn’t have sided with tsar or anyone else than Lenin. I do believe in communism.

        Now some improvements may be from communism, i hope so, but don’t pretend you can prove it more than i. It’s not like life expectancy, literacy rate or other factors alike couldn’t rise with another system. It’s not like you could eliminate the possibility of third factors in a time with so much change in all areas of life.

        But i sure wouldn’t have followed Stalin in his totalitarian regime. I sure hope if communism was a solution today it would be democratic.