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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why isn’t comparative politics part of our basic high school education?  Millions of people would stop falling for these boogeymen like communism and Marxism if they actually understood what they mean and what they are. [/quote]

It's pretty simple really.  You just have to explain how in China, they didn't have property during communism they all had literal communal toilets.[/quote]

You don't even understand the difference between PERSONAL property and PUBLIC property. Communism isn't sharing a toilet, it means some billionaire doesn't get to buy up things that should belong to everyone and sell it back to us for a profit. For example, in most developed countries they have robust public transportation available at a low cost. We don't have that here because the billionaires want to sell us cars and charge us for Ubers and escooters instead of funding buses and trains. [/quote]

No really they had & have communal toilets.

The Chinese Communist Party under Mao made a very explicit “heavy-industry first” choice. The first Five-Year Plans (1953–1957 and onward) were modeled on the Soviet experience: pour as much capital and labour as possible into steel, coal, power plants, railways, tractors, and defense. Housing and consumer goods were officially classed as “non-productive” sectors and got what was left over.

That deliberate policy produced:

Tiny state-built apartments with shared kitchens and toilets (the famous gongfang or “public housing” blocks).

Slow infrastructure investment in water, sewage and household plumbing.

Austerity campaigns that made spartan living a virtue and damped down public complaints.

So while the country’s poverty and weak infrastructure set the baseline, the leadership did, in fact, choose to invest the scarce resources in industry first and accept very low living standards — including communal toilets — as the trade-off. Only after the post-1978 reforms, when growth shifted toward light industry and consumer goods and housing was privatized, did private bathrooms become the norm.[/quote]

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