You're the idiot who doesn't see the obvious, Stoner.
The Union of Socialist Republics was a communist nation which, far from ideal, at least purported to achieve the goals of socialist ideals.
We hard leftists purport to achieve the goals of socialist ideals.
Which were what?
Ones the USSR actually did:
Aggressive, imperialist, expansion of the nation by war and violence.
Massive mismanagement of the economy ensuring widespread poverty and privation. Bread lines anyone?
Total repression of religious freedom
Repression of free speech and press
Repression of freedom of association and movement
Decaying infrastructure
Worst polluter on the planet at the time
Contemporary Russia is an oligarch-controlled fascist state not seeking to achieve the goals of socialist ideals.
But it is freer, more advanced, and less polluting than under Communism.
As for the Chinese government, they also fail to meet the democratic standards that we'd like to see
but they have been progressively improving the standard of living for their citizens for several consecutive generations.
China today is more like the Soviet Union, even as conditions there have improved some. The standard of living there has improved for a small elite, oligarchs, and others connected to the Communist party. For anyone who isn't connected they get poverty and the boot on their neck.
People who live well feel more free than any others.
The reason that China is eating our lunch
is because our consecutive generations are experiencing a diminishing standard of living.
Hardly. Like any dictatorship, the picture presented to the world is a far rosier one than the reality of being under it.
All of this is obvious to non-idiots, by the way.
Yes, it is. Idiots believe that Socialism, Communism, and dictatorships lead to a better world.
Do you mean to tell me that you don't know that Russia is China's puppet ? That they are as Italy was to Germany? REALLY?
This line of thinking would be like hating the old eastern block countries of the old Warsaw pact but not a negative peep about the old Soviet Union. Its hating the junior partner but not the senior,...the puppet but not the puppet master. Makes no sense whatsoever. Are you people really THAT dense, that brainwashed,...OR is it really about not wanting to have a politically uncomfortable discussion that could open a Pandora's box that has the STRONG possibility of weakening your preferred presidential candidate? My guess is it is NUMBER THREE. How very very weak of you.
