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The USA had better fossil fuels and by better fossil fuels I mean more coal.
The Soviet Union fell because it mostly had to rely on oil and had no solution against the US petrodollar scheme.. China is already doing better with just half as much coal.
Even cultist theocracies could win against communism with enough energy/electricity sources packed in a small area that can't be easily transported.
This coal advantage is quickly disappearing as solar power and to a lesser extend, wind power, is making inroads. By 2030, coal will be a curse like oil.
You say it like the fall of the USSR regime was a bad thing.
It was a bad thing.
Not only because of the things REEEEvolution said. Child prostitution, bread lines (which came AFTER the fall), wars and a fall of life expectency, but I live in Western Europe and the dismantling of the Soviet Union also triggered the dismantling of social democracy and rise of both fascism and rainbow capitalism in my own country and I sometimes don't know which one to be more disgusted by.
Well fascism of course, but like religious people I consider their ideas to be so outdated that I'm often more amused and amazed by their stupidity and backwardness than I am frustrated by them during an age where China currently is undeniably the largest superpower in the world.
Guess your country is in america lol, here in Europe we know our history.
You're a big fan of modern Russia then.
Neither dictatorship pleases me.
But I guess you're onboard, you all seems to like a strong dictator like Mao or Stalin.
OK, so you're not a fan of what the fall of the USSR led to. I guess you're just a big fan of the mass poverty it caused?
Ah ok, so you're just a racist.
@[email protected] quite literally stated "but I live in Western Europe."
Judging from the fact that life expectancy dropped by 8 years, popuilation numbers in all former members of the USSR having not recovered to this day, the rise of the now famous russian mafia, and all the "fun" wars in recent times. Yes it was a horrible thing. You need to be completely insane to think otherwise.
The only people who profited from it were oligarchs, the mafia, the west(and there only the upper crust) and pedophiles(so much child prostitution holy shit). For 99,9999% of mankind it was a bad thing.
Undeniably it was a bad thing that the Soviet Union fell. 7 million people died because of it falling, and we lost one of the most progressive countries from an international perspective. Never has a country been so firmly dedicated to anti-Imperialism and decolonization with the actual real power that the Soviet Union had to back that up, it not only came with huge victories for the working class internally, but also supported Cuba, Palestine, Algeria, Korea, China, defeated the Nazis (90% of Nazis killed during WWII were from the Soviets), and more.
So yes, the USSR falling was a bad thing.
it was a good thing - what came after it was a bad thing.
ultimately what happened is that, confronted with either advancing the revolution or burocratizing the party cadres, the ussr chose the last one. the result could be no other than the restoration of capitalism. so far just cuba seems to be resisting this trend, but for how long?
"Advancing the revolution" of course being a shorthand for "spending all resources on exporting it like Trotsky wanted, only to end up failing externally and internally" rather than building up production so that it could actually afford to support revolution around the world, which it did in cases like Cuba, Palestine, Algeria, and more.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was a complicated factor, but it was by no means because they chose to develop, rather than get themselves wiped out immediately like Trotsky wanted. There are many Socialist nations today, the PRC is by far the biggest and most relevant example on the global stage, it isn't just Cuba.
True.
Cuba is a real dictatorship though, not really the country of the people IMO.
you got it wrong.
Oh aah, that clear things up so well, thank you for the thorough explanation!
You made the original claim, back yourself up.
Cuba is propably one of the most democratic states on earth, what the fuck are you talking about?
just for clarification: with all its problems, cuba is way more democratic than the u.s.. like, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more.
Instead of repeating western progaganda, you could use your time to inform yourself about Cuban democracy and how that democracy is superior to western liberal democracies.
"Cuban democracy" aren't they the epitome of communism??
Are you under the impression that Socialist economies and democracy are at odds with each other? Socialism is more comprehensively democratic for a much larger portion of the population than western-style liberal democracies, as Socialist democracy is run by and for the working class, while liberal democracy is run by and for the Capitalist class.
Democracy is a core part of communism.
War is peace
You give no concrete argument and no evidence. You are just outraged that we dare think different from the capitalist press. Media corporations are not God. They do not even reflect the diversity of views in academia. Universities have some marxists (leninists or trots), anarchists etc., while all the capitalist press is different styles of imperialism.
-K. Marx & F. Engels
-V.I. Lenin
-P. Sloan
We can go on. Democracy is essential to the lifeblood of Communism, and Communists everywhere have strengthened the democracy for the working class while removing it from the Capitalists. This is the truth of democracy and Communism.