Message from @Delta Orion
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anyways, the quality of life for many improved quite well under socialism in many countries
Yes, they all got to be sent to gulag
saying many because there are certainly places where it failed, and i'm partial to that of the libertarian variety myself
even in places without gulags
in revolutionary catalonia, production and overall standard of living improved greatly for the majority of people
i know that sounds dubious, so i'm going to dig up a citation real quick
gimme a sec
okie
i have it in a book, and there's a preview on amazon but i'm not sure how far it goes
so i'll see if i can find alternate docs
Its probably true, communism always works at the start, until the government runs out of money
not necessarily, my good man
as you can see here, the USSR had the second highest growing economy as of 1970
second only to japan, which you've gotta admit is pretty darn impressive
how is the growth measured in that graph
gdp per head
okie
well this graph here shows a different picture
it might have been measuring by percentage of growth rate
this is also a neat read for sustained economic growth in the ussr
okie i'll have a read tonight
it is pretty interesting, i genuine recommend it
this is also a somewhat telling graph
note the dropoff in calories riiight after glasnost and perestroika were introduced
From the backwater of the world to a world power
In 20 years
it's really incredibly impressive, if you ask me
Admittedly the communists did manage to bring the country out from a feudal backward poor country to something in the world stage
That being said communism is pretty much surperior to feudalism
i think just about anything is, lol
and absolute monarchies
Roast me too
blog post, but with plentiful sources
However if that had a gradual transformation from a feudal monarchy to a liberal western demoacracy then I feel as if they would have done better in the long run