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Yeah, I lived in Ukraine. You should also mention that $10 could buy you different stuff in different regions of this planet.
There is no intent to let people suffer and die. There are all the liberties for every human in capitalist country to do anything they want to in order to live a happy wealthy live. Not everyone end up being successful.
It should never be equated to state-driven genocide.
Bullshit. This is just state-driven propaganda, a new religion that replaces an old one, which, as we know, is opium of the people.
Nobody gives up power willingly. Especially absolute power the authoritarian communist countries provide.
The intention is to make profit, human life be damned. It doesn't matter whether the oligarchy intend for us to suffer when all the increases in productivity are being systematically siphoned to the top of this pyramid scheme we call an economy. It doesn't matter if they intend for people to die when they can't afford life-saving medical procedures. It doesn't matter whether they intend for literal slavery to still exist, in 20-fucking-25, in service of profits. It doesn't matter if they intend for civilians to die when we go to war to "protect" strategic resources or when we bomb the Vietnamese to "save" the people from communism or when we install a tyrannical pro-capitalist dictator in South America. The suffering and deaths under capitalism are incalculable, so this appeal to intention is less than convincing.
This "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" rhetoric clearly doesn't work for people in capitalist developing countries. Arguably doesn't work for the poor in rich countries either.
Socialism is not synonymous with authoritarianism. Strong central governments were necessary to resist the U.S.. And these governments also lifted their people out of poverty: education, housing, healthcare, transportation, and jobs for all. Hell, the USSR went from literal feudalism to competing in the space race. You don't have to agree with every historical example of communism to appreciate a system designed to work for everyone.
Well yeah I can agree here, USA is a fucked up country. I'm not from it. They aren't good example of neither capitalism, nor democracy (two parties on a country of the size of EU lol).
Why? I am from capitalist developing county, from rather poor (but sane) family. Those, who try, find the options.
USSR was the fucking feudalism. My grandma didn't have her passport till 80s. Without it she wasn't allowed to move from the region, while forced to work at kolgosp.
USSR took the already wealthy state, with factories and all, and brought it into chaos, murdering people for the ideals of the revolution. And before you say "well they were killing wealthy capitalists so it's OK", ...they even murdered anarchists, also lefties.
Then they disarmed people. Then they did the literal fucking genocide of Holodomor, stockpiling food that was rotting in the hangars trying to sell it to the West while the people had nothing to eat, and they were executing them for "stealing food".
But hey, free housing. They were also offering poets free apartments. The catch? The whole building was wiretaped. Half of the residents were 3-letter agencies that monitored all contacts inside the building. And while they were doing genocide, they were forcing local poets to write stuff to glorify the regime, and tortured/sent to camps ones who didn't bend.
And yeah lol space race. Aka guide to lose your empire without any war. Even USA wasn't ready to this turn of events. The fuckers tried to save USSR from collapse.
All in all, nothing did as much damage to my people as the fucking commies. And nazies tried their best.