• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    I don’t really believe we’ve attempted non-capitalist societies at large scales, such as a pure democracy communism/socialism, but I will say that China claims to but they still have hundreds of millions of homeless, so yeah definitely a problem that exists everywhere.

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        7 months ago

        It was more of a dictatorship. Property wasn’t shared equally, it was owned by Stallin’s regime.

        It went equally poorly during the Mao regime in China, and it’s going to repeat that problem under Xi Jinping.

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          Have there been any examples of overtly communist societies that haven’t been dictatorships? I just don’t know any off the top of my head.

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            I think there might be one going on in a section of India at the moment, but the problem comes with defining what Communism is. Is communism when there is absolutely no Capitalism? Because, probably not, no. Is Communism when a majority of goods and services are publicly owned/payed for? Then maybe, but I think there was actually a period where France was beating the USSR for General Government Public Expenditures as a percent of GDP. I know fuck all about modern day data on the subject.