Re:Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations
by Konnstann on Monday May 20, 2019 @02:08PM
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The argument that the USSR wasn't really communism isn't a semantic argument of "yeah it was a marxist utopia" but rather one of whether we support governments claiming to be communist. We don't have an example of successful communism, while we do have examples of successful science.
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Re:Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations
by danaris on Monday May 20, 2019 @03:08PM
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I have literally never seen that argument, and frequently seen the argument that communism (and/or socialism) is Bad, because the USSR was communist, and they were Bad.
Not that I'm saying you haven't encountered the reverse; I'm quite willing to believe that people who run in other circles (or make other claims) encounter different arguments. But yeah, I see the "we shouldn't want communism/socialism, it killed millions of people under Stalin" argument all the damn time.