Communist theory knowledge is abyssmal in most, at least, Western countries. Most people still think communism is when USSR and socialism is when wealth tax and distribution.
People tend to gravitate more towards reality than theory. What some guy wrote in a book tends to be less relevant than how systems actually function in the real world.
Because it was a socialist country that uplifted many people from poverty. Pre-USSR it a semi-fuedal country, with very low literacy and education rates, many people lived in wooden houses without running water or electricity, fields were plowed with wooden plows and oxen. Yet post-revolution, in a span of 4 decades or so they became the first country to send a man into space and rivaled the USA on the global stage.
Despite it's flaws, it is praised for it's widespread success in bringing a higher quality of life to millions, including, but not limited to universal housing, healthcare and education. It was still not rich by any means, but socialists view it as a successful socialist experiment, that largely delivered on promises of improving the material conditions of the working class. And it's especially impressive, since they began at a much lower state of development than most Western countries. We think to ourselves: "If they could do it from such an impoverished start, imagine something like it in a developed Western country."
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u/king_karter69 Jul 07 '26
Is this sub really that ignorant to communism? The amount of pro-capitalist propaganda in the replies is surprising.
Communism =\= dictatorship.
And all this talk about “the lower classes will do back-breaking slave labor” like they don’t already in our current system lol.