• NeuromancerM
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    -61 month ago

    It’s an inherent flaw in communism. People starve under the system.

    • @zeppo
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      31 month ago

      Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?

      • NeuromancerM
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        -51 month ago

        My friends who survived communism would disagree with you. Do you have a cite to show otherwise?

        Looking at Venezuela, I have not seen anything like that here, have you? or Cuba? When I was in Cuba, malnutrition was common.

        • @zeppo
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          31 month ago

          Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.

          As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.

          • NeuromancerM
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            -41 month ago

            Cuba is only embargoed from us. Pretty much everyone else in the world trades with them.

            Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.

            • @zeppo
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              31 month ago

              Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.

              Ha ha, no. If that’s the angle you’re coming from that explains a lot.

                • @zeppo
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                  -129 days ago

                  oh, a capitalist economy? yep, they all feature people on the lower economic rung starving. check out the industrial revolution in the UK for a great example.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Source? Communism has never been implemented, and the systems designed to transition to communism, e.g. the USSR, we’re actually pretty successful in decreasing hunger. People starve under capitalism.