• Godric@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    People fleeing communist countries en mass sure is a mystery. Who could ever know why they built the Berlin Wall or why Cuban families risk their children on rafts to get to a capitalist country

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      7 months ago

      You are aware that the vast majority of undocumented immigrants are coming to America from other capitalist countries right?

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        7 months ago

        still

        >many cases of people fleeing from communist countries to capitalist ones

        >far less cases of people fleeing from capitalist countries to live under communism

        most people don’t want communism, that’s why there are no democratic elections in communist countries and wrongthink is persecuted

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          Under communism wrongthink is wanting to profit off the labor of others.

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                7 months ago

                didn’t the USSR prosecute gays?

                >inb4 “b-but it wasn’t REAL communism, akshually”

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                  7 months ago

                  So did the United States untill very recently, what is your point? Advocating for Communism isnt Advocating for a return of the USSR you absolute ham sandwich.

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        7 months ago

        This reply perfectly highlights why people who have issues with basic logic support communism.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      People move to areas with better material conditions. Assuming that is the fault of Socialism and not of countries being in different stages of development is immaterial and ignores the trajectory of nations, as well as the geopolitical landscape.

      For example, in the GDR, education was high quality and free, but wages were lower than in West Germany. Many highly educated people in GDR attempted to leverage their free education for higher wages in the West.

      As for Cuba, people fleeing are typically the people prosecuted during the revolution, ie plantation owners. People still flee from less developed to more developed countries, which is why people flee from Capitalist states to other Capitalist states.