• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    Under Communism poverty is erradicated or close to it. The floor is raised and the ceiling is lowered.

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      And also a small group of people monopolize power and wealth to oppress those who didn’t

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          Communism experdites the process of wealth centralization, because that’s what happens when you give all the resources to a single party, under communism the process takes less than 10 years, under capitalism it takes over 10 years, because you need to convince people to part with their money, under communism you have no choice, you own nothing and what you do own is the property of the party.

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        Incorrect.

        Wealth inequality was far lower in the USSR than the Tsarist system before it, the Capitalist system after it, and than western countries. Additionally, Soviet Democracy was extensive, with far more political participation than western countries have.

        Read Blackshirts and Reds.