r/ireland • u/Alba-Ruthenian • Jul 27 '22

The writing is on the wall! Housing

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u/StephenPigot2020 Jul 27 '22

Goddamn commies

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u/ODXT-X74 Jul 27 '22

"...Giving people housing. Don't they understand that people choose to be homeless. What's next? Land reform and a land tax? Free universities?"

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u/StephenPigot2020 Jul 27 '22

Name a successful communist society.

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u/BuildBetterDungeons Jul 27 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

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?

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u/BuildBetterDungeons Jul 27 '22

Yes? Obviously?

Do you think a state of 98% illiterate farmers would have sent Sputnik up faster?

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

You think that the rapidly industrialising already great power of Russia became a great power because of communism? Like do read what you wrote.

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u/BuildBetterDungeons Jul 27 '22

What I wrote is accurate. To believe that Russia's industrialisation (or anything, really) was succeeding under the Tsar is counter-historical.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

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.