Communism: the Party nomenklatura | the workers
State capitalism with a red flag
My favorite was death panels.
“The government is going to decide who lives and dies by gatekeeping access to healthcare!” Motherfucker, that’s what insurance does now. The potential failures of a collectivized system are treated with more scrutiny than capitalism working as intended.
I love it when they show price gouging and panic buying and long lines at grocery stores (pictures of capitalism in action) and say “this is what communism looks like!”
It’s like they’re soooo close to getting it, but never will make that connection.
THIS IS WHAT COMMUNISM LOOKS LIKE: detroit.jpg
Thats detroit? Looks exactly like a picture from sao paulo, brazil.
(Those buildings are now vacant)
Those “slums” don’t even look that bad in that shot. Just looks like a very lived in city. The area in the meme could use some cleaning up, but it was probably selected out of dozens of shots for the contrast.
Detroit was a different meme.
I don’t know how this will be received here, but both panels are true
You’re not too wrong.
But despite all of the inexcusable ethnic cleansing shit of the PRC they have drastically raised the standards of living of the poorest.
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone (who isn’t a member of a persecuted minority or political dissident) in conditions as bad as a Brazilian favella in the PRC. Let alone a favellasworth of them.
(And to preempt, bright spots of favella culture such as community centres, art, and people succeding are despite the conditions (even if in response to them), not a sign that they’re “good actually”.)
Not here to discredit the social improvements in China of the past 50 years, but there are still places in the countryside that are comparable to favelas.
But they are disappearing, favelas are not.
You’re absolutely correct.
I’d also add that while they exist, it is also with fewer food and water poverty/access issues compared to favelas since they’re rural rather than urban spaces.
🤡
Yes and I’d rather have everyone poor than some guys being extra rich.
everyone poor
no. everyone should be able to make ends meet. it’s not impossible.
I was talking about the other scenario of the the image. I know it’s possible. But if it’s not like that, i don’t want only a few leeching off the rest like how it is now. I hate people that sick rich people’s balls even when they themselves are poor.
They just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps! See it worked for some!
