• AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Yes because workers owning their own workplace and directing activity democratically with no owner class siphoning profits has to work the exact same because......

      Oh wait, it doesn't and you're just a fucking moron

      • heggs_bayer
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        3 months ago

        Buh b but muh totalitarian Soviet Onion! Muh authoritarian Borf Goria! Muh jorjorwell 8491 Chy Na!

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          3 months ago

          My grandparents were forced to cut onions in the soviet onion! they still remember this when they cry and how stalin was holding the big spoon up to them and demanding more onions! "mr stalin sir too many onions is going to cause flatulence" they screamed but stalin didnt care kitty-cri-texas

    • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      "Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top," you think to yourself as the crimson Poverty Line flashes upwards across your field of view. "Capitalism is the only system that works." The wind is rushing hard in your ears now; the bottom of the Money Pit is coming up fast. "Besides, they worked hard to swim in the Money Pool, they deser--." Splat.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      Politicians were paid around the middle of the income scale in the Soviet Union.

      Unless you're talking about like the occasional free beer or taxi ride for competently administering your job, which I gotta tell you, however much you think Communist party members did it... Like, have you had a job and talked to your boss and their inter-business negotiations? Holy shit

      • supertrucker@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        If I'm a government official in near complete control of billions in resources, it doesn't matter what I take home in salary, I'm essentially have the power of a billionaire, so long as I keep my bosses happy

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          3 months ago

          I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Do you think that a random party guy in Siberia can just say "Nope, the USSR cannot get any oil now" and nothing would be done and he'd be showered in women and coke? Or... Yeah, what the fuck are you talking about?

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            • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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              3 months ago

              Fair enough, so without any name calling, please name some of those alternatives you mentioned.

              EDIT: you commented continously for 11 further hours after this post, without answering anyone in this thread, so i would safely assume you deserve all the name calling and more.

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        • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          you can either have private jackasses own everything like petty kings of their little financial fiefdoms, or you can have capital be socially owned and operated without the explicit need for next quarter profit seeking, those are your fucking choices you nerd