Were you even alive during the cold war? Do you even know what the stated goal of the international was? What a Soviet Republic was?
If you look at just about every communist country in history they're always ultranationalistic, socially conservative...
Nolan Scott
Chase Adams
actually yes at all your question youngling
Jose Mitchell
>youngling
Guess again.
Connor Adams
ok boomer
Logan Thompson
in capitalist europe they looked the same..
David Morris
my gf dad was made corepgraphys for a soviet circus, there was a strong focus on "looking" slavic (a.k.a. no gypsies,chechen and such) and from 1960 there was a strong chrisitian movement inside the soviet
Kevin Long
communist is dead already
china is not real communist tho
Anthony Moore
Zachary Allen
Congrats, OP, you managed to fall for their shitty theatrics. See those commieblocks in the background? That's what actual communism is: soulless, intentionally demoralizing, and blatantly ugly. There's nothing "ultranationalistic" about believing that everyone is the same and that some nations aren't superior to others, and there's nothing nationalistic about being taught to act as slaves for the state instead of supporting your countrymen first and foremost. The Chinese watching their fellows get run over by tanks in Tianenmen Square and then submissively bowing down is what Communism gets you, and what would you have to say about the Hungarian and Czech nationalist uprisings that the Soviets crushed?
>Yeah you typically have to wait in line when you want to buy food.
Hilarious cope. Even in the middle of a global pandemic, capitalist store shelves are only empty for a day or two at most. And that's for relative luxury items, not basic food.
>America has the highest prison population on the planet.
Kek, because of niggers, and they sure don't have it as bad as Soviet prisoners did. Good job outing yourself as another basic bitch leftist, though. You couldn't even keep up the "gommunism is redpilled and based!" act for two posts
Ethan Bennett
Culturally they're based, but economically they're fucked.
It all boils down to which value theory you subscribe to- the Market Theory of Value, or the Labor Theory of Value.
MTV states that an object is worth exactly how much I want it, and what I'm willing to pay to get it. This is the basis of capitalism- whoever can offer me what I want at the lowest price and the highest quality gets my business, driving innovation and development, while businesses of a lower quality die out.
The major flaw in capitalism though is that markets tend to monopolize and form conglomerates, and can have undue control over the government. You need strong regulation to prevent environmental degradation, corruption, and monopolies.
LTV states that an object is worth exactly how much work was put into it. Coal in the Earth is worth nothing, but coal that's been extracted and refined has value. Therefore, the working class should be directly compensated for their work by consumers, and not by employers. Employers may offer fair compensation for the workers' labor, but they then derive MORE value from it in the form of profit. And because all value is derived from labor, this profit must then belong to the workers.
The major flaw in this is that no one is allowed to make any individual decision about what something is actually worth (except in anarchism.) Either the collective has to vote on how much each product is worth, (democratic socialism) or they have to elect leaders who will dictate what things are worth (bolshevism). The former always descends into the latter, because it's impossible to come to a societal agreement on how much a certain object is worth.
If communism actually did work the way it's supposed to, I would be whole-heartedly for it, but as it is I have to content myself with Third-Positionism.