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Re:The Landlord's Game by cies on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:31AM (#26887235)
Capitalism puts capital first, sure, but it is necessary to say it specifically puts person-owned capital first.

Economically the USSR had capital too, but it was mostly owned collectively (by the state).

Hence I define the two in terms of the people that actually own stuff.

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Re:The Landlord's Game by baq on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:29AM (#26887639)
fair points, but one could argue that USSR wasn't necessarily a socialist state. it was totalitarian, which somehow gets more confused with socialist the further west you go and ask.
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Re:The Landlord's Game by cies on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:56AM (#26899623)
> USSR wasn't necessarily a socialist state

it wasn't communist (defined as: no money, no classes, no state). it was commi thoug

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