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A Boring Dystopia

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This is actually an older news story, and it does appear as though she recovered from this before her death.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14389544

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[–] FiniteBanjo 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It was more of a dictatorship. Property wasn't shared equally, it was owned by Stallin's regime.

It went equally poorly during the Mao regime in China, and it's going to repeat that problem under Xi Jinping.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have there been any examples of overtly communist societies that haven’t been dictatorships? I just don’t know any off the top of my head.

[–] FiniteBanjo 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think there might be one going on in a section of India at the moment, but the problem comes with defining what Communism is. Is communism when there is absolutely no Capitalism? Because, probably not, no. Is Communism when a majority of goods and services are publicly owned/payed for? Then maybe, but I think there was actually a period where France was beating the USSR for General Government Public Expenditures as a percent of GDP. I know fuck all about modern day data on the subject.