Permanently Deleted

  • notthenameiwant [he/him]
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    There is no evidence that slave labor works, and it disgusts me that you would be OK with it.

      • notthenameiwant [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Just because it feels good, doesn't mean it works or is ethical. I hate plenty of people, doesn't mean they should be slaves. Shoot them if they are like Bush, otherwise integrate them. Things will sort themselves out over time.

                  • notthenameiwant [he/him]
                    ·
                    4 years ago

                    Most people were in gulags unjustly. People got sent to them for stealing from their employers, really petty shit.

                    • Gkalaitza [he/him]
                      ·
                      4 years ago

                      Most people were in gulags unjustly

                      Source ?

                      Yeah a lot were but most. Like in hundreds of throusands. You know Gulags were just prisons. Are you saying that (especially after ww2) the majority of prisoners in the USSR were innocent. Thats a wild take

                      People got sent to them for stealing from their employers

                      What employers? You think there were actual physical people ownining means of productions or buisnesses employing people in the USSR ? (yeah there were some cause there was a black market) but that mode of production was a small minority

                      • notthenameiwant [he/him]
                        ·
                        4 years ago

                        What employers? You think there were actual physical people ownining means of productions or buisnesses employing people in the USSR ? (yeah there were some cause there was a black market) but that mode of production was a small minority

                        Markets were not abolished under the USSR, read Wolff.

                        I also did not argue innocence, I argued unjustness. I'm not gonna debate you if your first instinct is to misconstrue my point.

                        • Gkalaitza [he/him]
                          ·
                          4 years ago

                          The USSR had a kind of commodity-production and had wage labor but only post-Stalin there were pseudo market-type reforms i.e they had to take loans from the state, have emploeyr relationships, firms that pay interest, had to be profitable and there even was a type of psuedo competition between the state enterprises, (but at the same time they had to follow the plan set by the state.). Under Stalin markets in any capitalist sense were supressed (why black market structures emerged) and capital goods were mostly allocated based on their use-values rather than their exchange values, meaning that capital goods were mostly not treated like commodities.

                          Also i havent read Wolff on the issue, sorry that a demsoc marxist that stans co-ops as a transitionary system wasnt in my top list to read about how the economy worked in the USSR