Message from @quiscalus
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federal jobs can work beside free market jobs
you get this for free
I don't think the state should be in charge of every good and service just what is human needs to make sure everyone gets their needs met no matter their level of income
if every business is nationalized and collectivized, your wages will plummet
inflation is inevitable
I think the issue with the USSR is that you have a dramatically undemocratic system
Real wages have remained stagnant since the 70s whereas productivity has risen drastically.
who needs elections when you got a guy like stalin?
Soviet Democracy was based on Direct Democracy
he did in 5 years what took the US 60
you have workers being told how to work, what is made, and how it is distributed based on the commissar and not the people who receive or make the goods
exactly
no competition is not good
free market is great for innovation and for workers
I think you can have the state represent the will of the people and meet their needs
The USSR did in a few decades what took the US centuries and without the Atlantic Slave Trade to boot.
competition leads to: lower prices, higher quality, higher wages
this is proven
im not sure how you could argue against this
that, my friend, is why true communism is impossible to achieve
You should really peruse the now-declassified Soviet Archives and check out a few non-partisan books about the Soviet system.
i would support every bit of it it there weren't practical problems with it
the USSR did great things but I think they could have done it in a better way with more power in the hands of the workers and common people and less political repression
That should clear up many misconceptions.
also the idea of an one party system is in my mind rather undemocratic
democracy and communism cant mix my friend
you have to choose one
I think you can
false
they are incompatible
learn more about communism and you'll learn that
I am not sure about communism but you can have socialism and democracy
you can't have socialism either
learn more about socialism for that one
what you can have is the false socialism called "democratic socialism"
Communism is simply the stage of socioeconomic development that follows after socialism.
which is not real socialism, just social democracy
Socialism is inherently democratic.
if you can briefly break down why the ideas are incompatible?