If the soviet system only ever rivaled the US

Clearly the US did something better

Better in what respect?

I wouldn't consider the disgusting amounts of over production by Capitalism "better"

But the US didn't collapse

And it wasn't an authoritarian dictatorship

Technically neither did the USSR

Oh the USSR wasn't a dictatorship either

The USSR never collapsed?

Both are Authoritarian however

No it was dissolved by Yeltsin

In fact a vote to keep the USSR had people vote in iver whelming numbers across all the SSRs and the RSFSR to maintain it

However the bureaucracy couldn't profit from the organization of the USSR and needed to open up the markets such that they could benefit

Ok cool

So the USSR was forcefully dissolved

But again if the capitalist system is just effective then why change it

Effective in what regard?

Currently the only argument is muh exploitation

I didn't get into how Capitalism collapses every ten years

Effective in every regard

Nonsense

If the USSR only came to rival the US economy

You're missing the point

Which is?

Like I get it, Capitalism has created a culture which prioritizes consumption and the glorification of buying a lot of stuff

My concern is not with getting people luxuries

my god

Let's look at the USSR again, it started as a backwards semi-feudal country under the Tsarist regime which has chronic famine, like all pre-industrial societies. Through the development of industry famine was eventually eliminated, literacy went up to near perfect numbers, everyone was employed

It wasn't a luxurious life, but those people who would have been living under a capitalist system at the bottom, those who would be starving, homeless and illiterate we're educated, fed and housed. That's what I care about. I don't care about someone's ability to have fancy cars, gold watches or other meaningless and superfluous nonsense, I care about what happens to the people on the bottom

spit it out

ah

So you believe in a nanny state

The people worked

It wasn't *welfare*

In fact I would say welfare is entirely unnecessary if you have socialism

If people earned in full what they produced, if people had a say in their working lives, then welfare is not necessary

Welfare is a band-aid for Capitalism when it fails, or when communists get uppity

FDR in order to do the new deal said, "if we don't give them this much, they'll take everything you have"

As the threat or communist revolution was a very real thing during the great depression

@Enigmatic★Chromatic would you mind watching a video

3min long

Uh, sure