these are just 3 examples, but they are known as "tankies"..
and then most marxist go "well the soviet union wasn't really true marxism"
It's fucking weird, why are mostly white, western privileged students enamored by the Soviet Union, a brutal regime, Soviet Communism was hell for most people
Juan Gutierrez
because most kids are fucking stupid
Nathaniel Edwards
Because the Soviet Union managed to take a two bit 3rd rate feudal backwater where the average person died at 30 and in just a single generation turned it into the worlds only other global superpower that sent the first man into space and crushed Nazi Germany
Caleb Myers
Go to fucking /pol/, retard.
And stay off twitter if it triggers you so much
Josiah Carter
Read the Gulag Archiapelego
Colton Taylor
The Soviet Union is so enlightened people thats why they banned genetics and promoted Lysenkoism which led to major famines in both the Soviet Union and China
but ok...yeah they were enlightened people
Nicholas Long
Sorry I don't read Fantasy novels
Aiden Stewart
fantasy novels? what
yeah because some privileged westerner knows more about the Soviet Union then someone who was actually in a fucking gulag
education has really gotten worse in the west hasn't it
Tyler Murphy
actually there was just a discussion about in a thread on a tech board talking about chinese companies by up german tech firms and germany being unable to stop it because of eu level trade treaties...but the relevant part was people got to talking about the japanese overexpansion in the 80s and how it led to 2+ decades of stagnation, and then someone started talking about soviet development, and how they seemed to grow so fast because it was "catch up growth", of course when you import technology from the west (the arch-conservative and mit trained engineer Koch brothers made their family fortune building oil refineries for Stalin) you can rush development for a few decades, but they never passed the west and eventually burned out, people always complain about how american airports suck etc. but consider american fucking created airplanes, of course their airports are going to be older legacy construction compared to some new shit the chinese just built in the middle of a desert two years ago...those kind of catch up projects always seem impressive at first, but it can only go so far.
Mason Cox
This. There is no way they did anything good.
They were evil
Brandon Collins
>which led to major famines >implying stalin didn't starve the ukrainians on purpose
Dylan Ortiz
It's one thing that tankies never want to talk about when they defend their glorious Soviet Union..
the fact that they literally banned Mendelian genetics because it would tear down their whole egalitarian fantasy
Owen Gomez
Yeah and where was India, Africa and South America catching up during this time? It wasn't until the Soviet pushed Anti-Imperialism period that they managed to do so, of course a nation that stopped developing itself primarilly as a supply state for the West will have a chance to utilize its own capital for its own productive interests
Daniel Rogers
tankies don't think that
Joshua Brown
>not sure if this is a clever satire of /pol/ or you're actually this fucking stupid
Adam Parker
dude, that's the point, state capitalism can do "catch up" projects faster than free capitalism, but it's not going to surpass free market economies in the long run, otherwise the russian economy wouldn't have peaked in 1959 which is a life time ago. communism is just a new form of oriental despotism, read frankfurt school b-player karl wittfogel on this if u need to hear it from a "fellow traveller"
Parker Allen
Exactly, Communism is good at fast rate catching up
but it never had a chance to surpass the Free Market West....not in any category what so ever
Ethan Rivera
Public schools are Marxist on design and education. They were propagandized since birth and don't know it.
James Perry
>thinking marxism is bad now makes you a /pol/tard This is how fucking delusional the left has gotten
Sebastian Peterson
Its true though
Connor Cook
Veeky Forums - Literature
Julian Foster
Nice bate mate, you know tankies are the guys who spend all their time defending the Soviet Union and Sulzhenitsyn was a traditionalist shill? Go read Shalamov.
Owen Ross
Be careful. Marxists are vicious activists.
Asher Turner
'surpass'
(nice ideology)
Austin Parker
Its true that anyone who thinks its bad is a /pol/tard? Jesus christ, have you ever fucking left Veeky Forums? Go outside, make friends, try reading a fucking book.
Jacob Howard
Sick burn, comrade.
Jason Hughes
>anything that doesnt conform to my delusional view of reality Ill just label fantasy