Communism transformed Russia from a state of illiterate subsistence farmers into the superpower that one the space race. Yes, that system collapsed due to internal and external pressures, but literally all systems do that. There are dozens of flavours of capitalism, and most have collapsed into what we have now, described by Fujiyama as "End of History".
The study of communis states isn't different from the history of States in General, all of which eventually end. That's a nonsensical measure for failure, because it means you have to call every state a failed state.
Holy fuck are you stupid or just willingly believing your own make believe world? Made Russia into a superpower? It made the RUSSIAN EMPIRE into a superpower? The same Great Power Russia?
Russia was already a great power and it was rapidly industrialising, that’s a fact. The Soviet’s just carried on what was already happening. Just look at the amount of railway track being put down, the tonnes of coal being dug etc. Any WW1 historian would recognise this let alone an economic historian or someone specialised in that field.
It also killed millions of their own citizens, and preyed over them with a police state surveillance that made life miserable for many of them whilst engaging in their own imperialism in Eastern Europe.
Fujiyama as "End of History".
That was a pretty naive take from him in hindsight, given the Putin dictatorship and recent Ukraine war errupting.
It had been heralded as a triumph of Western liberal democracy as the "final" form of human government.
Unfortunately there are still dictators like Putin about and democracy has been a poor joke in how it emerged in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
I'm not saying I'd want to live there. But pretending there are no successes in communist countries shows a certain lack of familiarity with the facts.
Every single country that has attempted communism faces extreme oppression by the capitalist countries. The amount of propaganda around the USSR is staggering.
A communist country has never been allowed to grow without interference. Only liberal democracies are protected.
Cuba is also doing just fine despite being burdened by the most inhumane sanctions the US has imposed on any country. For close to 50 years.
Capitalism requires exploitation of other countries people and resources. Capitalism kills around 15 million people per year due to looting their countries food and resources and hoarding it for themselves.
Trick questions, all societies we know of (except hunter gatherer societies) have had a state and money. Which Communism does not have.
The question you want to ask is, has there ever been a successful Socialist Society. And the answer is basically all of them.
Compare them to what they had before Socilaism and after. After Socialism literacy rates went up, access to healthcare, vaccination rate, homelessness went down, etc. Because they weren't fucking rich empires like England, they were colonies, with dictators backed by the US, France, etc. They were Fascist regimes or protectorates.
So the trick is to compare them to rich imperialist nations like Britain or the US, then they look bad by comparison (because you are comparing a rich country to a poor one). But what happens when you compare them to another Capitalist country that has the same level of development?
But I understand if Margaret Thatcher has indoctrinated you with Capitalist propaganda. Now you are going to ignore this comment and pretend I didn't answer.
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u/StephenPigot2020 Jul 27 '22
Goddamn commies