For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends

Re:For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends by vibrato on Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:53PM (#18161784)

Thanks to capitalism, TOTAL numbers of people living in poverty are decreasing at an unprecedented rate. Every global measure we look at shows quality of life improvements like this, as capitalism and democracy have spread. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

Also, I do regard starving and enslaving constituents as much worse ethically than conquering another tribe or nation.

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Re:For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends by gnulinux on Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:57PM (#18161799)

What people continuously insist on not understanding (both self-claimed socialists and capitalists) is that capitalism is supposed to be much better than earlier systems. This is the central argument of Marx. He claims the world is in a never-ending struggle between social classes. It's very obvious that capitalism is better than older systems because it's the product of earlier conflicts; so your argument does not mean anything to me. The idea is to make it even better.

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Re:For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends by prolikewh0a on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:01PM (#18161822)

Thanks to Capitalism, those people were put into extreme poverty in the first place. How many millions need to continue dying from poverty, war, and poor hygiene for Capitalism to get the same nonsense thrown at it? It's only $30 billion a year to end world hunger, but world capitalism won't step up to the plate, instead spending it on new military toys to bomb those people in extreme poverty. How much food is wasted on top of that?

http://www.fao.org/NEWSROOM/en/news/2008/1000853/index.html

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Re:For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends by kazinator on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:17PM (#18161889)

It's not pure, unbridled capitalism, though.

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