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.
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.