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Again, though, this isn’t what people are saying. The doctrine of the USSR was Communist. They were working towards Communism. The fact that they did not reach that point does not mean their ideology was not Communist.
sidenote: if they didnt reach this point not due to time constraints but because they took a turn along the way, does it still count? ;)
i think what annoyed me about the whole thread and got me on the path about “the real communism” (until it got decent, thanks again!) was this comment. i made something out of it that wasnt the point of the whole debate.
It for sure is less extreme. Im the case of my city they raised the parking fee for inhabitants (once per year) from 30 to 360€. Didn’t change anything. Streets became one way to divert traffic, people go out of their way to still drive there. There are big parking structures outside of the city center. You can easily catch public transport from there. Didn’t change anything.
One exception is the soccer games, almost no cars, all trains. That’s nice at least.
Sieht die gerade milfs auf dem Handgerät oder soll das ein bodyshaming ding sein? Oder ist das einfach eine milf die du siehst?
Great argument. What do you base this on?
It’s like china calling itself communist right now.
Yes there was rhetoric in the USSR that suggested they were but it was an instrument to legitimate the horrible things that they did to their people.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society
A communist society is characterized by common ownership of the means of production with free access[1][2] to the articles of consumption and is classless, stateless, and moneyless,[3][4][5][6] implying the end of the exploitation of labour.[7][8]
That was not the case. It was state owned, as the transition from whatever system was there before to socialism plans. Communism is supposed to be something different.
I am not arguing that it would be good or better than anything we have today but am saying that we never saw communism in the modern world.
Change my mind with arguments and not down votes.
There was a John Oliver episode on libraries a while back and there was this one redneck looking man with serious maga vibes. He came out against the book bans. It’s a fucking shit show if we go after people’s believes (I think, am paraphrasing) he said.
Lesson for me was don’t judge a person by their car. Even if it’s a truck. They might be decent. Sometimes. Maybe.
I still hate people in trucks that live in the city (talking West Europe) that are raised and clean like in the first day. Fuck those people.
Edit: I think if the city is able to offer some decent public transport then cars shouldn’t be allowed at all. Think of the savings on road upkeep, quality of life increase, shops getting a lot of foot traffic and so on.