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What could and should have been

"My friend! We live in a wonderful time - a time of great construction, extraordinary discoveries, a time of the irrepressible movement of our society towards communism. Our wonderful time is full of the romance of creating something new, full of big dreams. Our tomorrow is the communism we built. Let's dream together today..."

Vasily Zakharencho in "Journey to Tomorrow" how he imagined the future of the USSR.

The Soviet Union might not exist anymore and did not manage to meet its own expectations and aspirations but I still believe in a society based on science, exploration and community. One that is free from the shackles of Capitalism.
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
80 million deaths was a nightmare not a dream.

You are about as wrong as you can be.
@SteelHands capitalist math?
SteelHands · 61-69, M
Math doesn't have an economic dogma, ideology or need to insanely conflate nonsensically.

You might. Math however, doesn't.
@SteelHands most people simply pretend that their side doesn't have a war past. The goal of socialists everywhere is peace, with equality and comfort. Obviously NATO would kill everyone to rule and Americans would, too. Democracy isn't your cup of tea. So you will have to kill us or own us all. We know you refuse to negotiate and only accept total control. I respect your war. Obviously you don't allow human kind. You are that well armed. Nobody will survive you.
Gloomy · F
@SteelHands
Capitalist Wars’ Death Tolls
For a rapid comparison with the grand total of “100 million victims of communism” from all causes, one can start with World War I. About 23 million deaths were directly caused by mostly liberal democratic regimes at war with each other. Then, between seven and 12 million people died in the Russian Civil War, during 1917–1923 (Mawdsley 2009). This is entirely imputable to capitalist regimes since they intervened to crush the Revolution (the Czarists trying a military coup even earlier, arguably hastening the Revolution). Czarist forces (the White Army) tried in vain to re-impose the Romanov dictatorship while foreign governments, including the US, sent much military aid and invaded with tens of thousands of troops in support of White Army rogues. During that upheaval, a budding Turkish state’s genocide (1919–1923) included at least a quarter million dead, largely Armenian. From the early 1920s through the 1930s, the Italian government murdered nearly 400,000 people in Ethiopia (1923–1936) and 80,000 in Cyrenaica (mainly in the 1930s). In South America, the 1932–1935 Chaco War (between the Bolivian and Paraguayan states) caused possibly 130,000 deaths. The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), entirely concocted and supported by capitalist regimes of all stripes (liberal to authoritarian), is associated with between a quarter of a million and a million deaths, with the wide uncertainty due to the suppression of information by the Franco dictatorship (1939–1975), supported throughout its existence by liberal democracies. On the other hand, 70 to 85 million people died in World War II, a war entirely again caused by capitalists and their state and fascist allies. Many major businesses (Fiat, Krupp, Volkswagen, Ford, IBM, etc.) also supported and profited from the war-imposing Fascist and Nazi regimes. And this is small wonder. Those dictatorships were based on defending private property, privatising public assets (against the general trend at the time), busting unions, and persecuting and murdering leftists of any sort. The resulting dividend for many capitalists was rising profits and greater market control.
Also let's not forget the deaths of people having to work in "third world countries" while producing products for the west under dire conditions.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
Chinese slaves making all the world's solar panels for Chinese "people's party" officials to live in luxury.

Yes I've heard about it.

And all the preceding half histories and blame naming as well.

You don't seem to get the point. Putin's socialist system is still a kleptocracy and China is still just a faraway corporate espionage cooperative run by the same group of globalists that funded both sides of every war, toppled multiple kingdoms and republics, and never fails to brainwash a few pastors and princes, proffessors and primadonnas.

You're a member of a very tiny minority, however, un like Rhodes Roundtable villains, your kind are never spared if their plans actually come to fruition. Those most instrumental in their plot must be done away with since they might also have influence once they see.

The world outside America is not an altruistic place. And never will be. You think America is divided.

You're wrong. Most people are normal. Young people always were loudmouth and ignorant. So there's nothing new there. Politicians were always crooks and prone to make stupid laws nobody obeyed. Colleges and universities never did create great leaders. They are there to ease wealthy ppls kids into the world of actual work.

Almost everybody today knows colleges are a place to assume a careers worth of debt for a mediocre career for the rest of us. Only the angriest ones want someone else to pay that bill.

I paid mine. Let him who signs play their own over time. Fair is fair. I got swindled too. I. Just don't cry like a baby snot entitled brat.

Let's see what else? Oh yeah. I hope they go arrest all those Instagram parents huring their kids to pedeo filez lately. I don't expect they will until Trump gets back on the covfefe.

I guess we're done here. See ya.
Gloomy · F
@SteelHands China is far away from being a good system I agree and Putin is no socialist. He is a dictator that dreams of the old tsar regime.

I'm not from the US but I have visited a few times so I don't have to go in debt just to get an education. You seem to be very angry I would advise you to take it slow and calm down.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@Gloomy any man worth a shit doesn't care if a other man cops an emote, and it's kinda cunny to be bringing up feels like a 2 bit psychic
Gloomy · F
@SteelHands I have no idea what you are on about...
What other man? What has worth to do with anything?
SteelHands · 61-69, M
Not possible to teach someone what thinks already knows