I was the PP who wrote the post praising collectivism and planned economies and eliminating private property in favor of state ownership of everything, and “the only reason it hasn’t worked so far is the right people haven’t been in charge”. I’m a troll. I was just putting the stupidest cliches I know of about communism down in one post, just to see if some idiot would agree with me - and of course someone did. I need to dumb down my game for y’all. It’s pointless to be sarcastic when people start agreeing with you. |
Well, the idiot is you. I've lived the communist experience with a leader in charge who was, yes, a dictator but a benevolent one. Things worked for a very long time and people still look back fondly on the years that he was in charge. You think WAY too highly of yourself, the self-proclaimed troll. |
DP. You were brainwashed, PP. communism is evil to the core. If you can’t see that and refuse to accept the truth, I suggest you seek out de-programming therapy from a mental health specialist. |
Communism is evil to the core? Are we in some sort of 1980s time warp? Communism doesn’t even exist any more and yet they are still idiots doing the whole capitalism versus communism bullsh*t. |
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Yeah, I'll take your very sound advice under consideration.
I grew up where all of our healthcare was of great quality and free. College was free. Education was excellent and free for everyone. If you had a job, you were given a place to live by your company. If you wanted to run a farm more power to you. The middle class was strong and the largest part of the population. We took a month off every summer and vacationed at low cost. People worked from 7-1 or 2 and had the rest of the day to spend with their families. Sure, you couldn't really practice your religion or talk about the party. Most people couldn't care less about any of that. |
| Yugoslavia under Tito was a hybridized system. It allowed joint ventures with private companies and its worker councils were not centrally controlled. |
Uh huh.
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Hello, Can I help with the deprogramming? Hillary Clinton |
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It started about halfway through and it was very rare. It had very little impact on the overall economy. It still doesn't refute that Yugoslavia was a socialist, communist country. |
Uh huh, what? Read a book or even do a Google search. |
socialism and communism are two different things. especially in regards to how political control is asserted. for what it's worth, Macedonians and Kosovars probably have a different view of life in Yugoslavia than Slovenes and Croats. |
It was literally called the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was governed by a communist party. I can assure you that both Kosovars and Macedonians look much more fondly on the time of Tito than they do on the time after he died. What made the whole experiment collapse was the power grab after Tito's death. |
I will also add that I love the mansplaining from a person who tangentially heard of Yugoslavia 30 years ago and now wants to tell me how it really was. |