Except that at those times, you could absolutely compare slave economies to non slave economies, and the non slave economies were healthier

It’s why during the civil war, the north was so much more powerful than the south

Turns out that if you stifle the potential of half your population, lock them in bondage, and assign a significant portion of the rest to watching them, it’s not very efficient. It’s better to just pay people, even discarding the abominable immorality of slavery and focusing on just economic efficiencies.

“it’s slavery when I work for money” ok clown

Liberals: this is a difficult situation and it’s not one which has an easy solution

Communists: genocide is an easy solution lol

Capitalism is the worst way to run an economy. Except, of course, all other ways which have been tried.

Launching rockets at civilians isn’t glorious whether you’re Russian or Palestinian.

While the bolshevists coopted the unions and turned them into agents of the Party, corrupting them from representative bodies into people spying on the working class for disloyalty

This is just the No True Scotsman argument. Every communist nation has always insisted that the dictatorship is a necessary transitional state so that true communism could be achieved, and been run by parties espousing the need to achieve that communism. Those dictatorships have never truly moved towards that.

Either communism is impossible or communism is dictatorship. You can pick either one, but there’s not another option.

Potatoes are amazing. They grow easily in a wide variety of soil and produce food which has every nutrient we need except for a complete protein. And, they’re a vegetable, so you can tell someone you’re eating your vegetables and then go to McDonald’s for some frenchy fries

So, the Soviets couldn’t do their own research. Got it

If it was all an evil capitalist conspiracy, why did the communists go along with it? Hmm?

You know, it took until 2003 for Russia to remove leaded gasoline from stations. The Soviets never did it LMFAO

but nice try

Comrade, we all know lead poisoning and the need for safety gear are capitalist propaganda! Now, get back in the mines! Production must increase 50% this year, and your state-appointed union representative says it can!

I don’t think anyone has a problem with post scarcity utopian idealism, we just aren’t at the post scarcity part yet

What are you on and where can I get some

…right leaning?

The communist version of this meme has someone with a whip and sword standing behind them and telling them to work for the benefit of the people or die

Joe Biden literally criminalized the rail workers using their legal right to strike.

And then used his platform and office to force the rail companies to address their concerns. You fucks are so dishonest

What’s the difference between a fascist and an “anarchist” who does everything they can to kneecap the only viable left leaning political party in the US?

There’s no practical difference, just window dressing. They both cheer on oppression and pain for those suffering under Republicans.

And don’t even get me started on communists. Left and right authoritarians, I’ve gotten death threats from both of them. Whether it’s some leftist telling me I would “get the wall” when the Revolution comes or some fucking Republican telling me that the US was only for Christians and that they’ll go after “traitors” soon, you get to the same fucking place at the end of the day. The only real difference is that there’s far more Republicans, and they’re far more organized than left authoritarians.

If a local producer can get more selling to someone in the next country, they will. Basic economics. Prohibit them from doing so and they might plant something more profitable or just say “fuck it” and let their fields lie fallow, if they’re not making a profit. Farming ain’t free and farmers are on thin margins.

If they cap prices on food, then you’ll see food shortages instead of expensive food