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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I wonder if anyone ever said "Democracy would never work, just look at what happened to Athens".

Socialism and communism are relatively new ideas. While I don't believe communism is an effective form of government, it's still kind of silly to write it off so quickly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

Someone between 1804 and 1830: Democracy doesn't work, just look at France, it dissolves into an empire

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

whoops, brazil. we had a budding workers movement that was absolutely crushed by the traitorous brazilian military, in the name of the US of course.

that hasnt stopped syndicalism to take root here and improve our lives a bit, but the communist organizations responsible were all crushed and we see our rights being taken away ever since because no one is left to defend them. we are scrambling rn to see if we can stop fascism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Human greed destroys all forms of government.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah.

The CIA is why the Soviets fell. Not corruption or incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (40 children)

It was complicated. Kruschev, and later Gorbachev's reforms really weakened the Socialist system because they didn't properly retain strong control of the larger firms and heavy industry (a lesson the CPC took to heart), however the CIA and really the US absolutely worked tirelessly to weaken it. The Soviets also had to spend a much larger portion of their production on the millitary in order to keep parity with the US, meaning that development rates began to slow.

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