• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    7 days ago

    In communism, the people do all of the work and the government and kleptocrats take all of the benefit

    This is empirically and demonstrably false. You’ve been lied to. Example: USSR, an Actually Existing Socialist state (what you call communism):

    As for who was this top 10% and top 1%, the highest paid people were actually highly trained personnel like university professors, prominent artists, researchers, etc.

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      6 days ago

      huh… i wonder what happened in the early 90s that made those lines go weewoo

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        6 days ago

        Noffin’ much. Just a lil’ neocolonial pillaging of the ex-Soviet states by the NATO states.