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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by WalterBright on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:27AM (#34449586)
I've heard the litany of endless excuses why implementations of communism all failed, and endless rationales for why free markets succeed.

Why is it that nobody can point to a successful communist society, now or historically? At some point, one just runs out of excuses. Meanwhile, free markets undergo prosperity again and again and again.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by woodruffw on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:35AM (#34449628)
You're reading this as an apologetic for Soviet communism, when it isn't.

Here is the totality of the argument: comparing the immediate postwar economic outcomes of the US and USSR is intellectually embarrassing, because everybody here understands that they aren't comparable. If your goal is to demonstrate that capitalism produces prosperity, you can point to literally any other period after the postwar one.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by WalterBright on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:16AM (#34449786)
Isn't it interesting that the free market countries flourished after WW2, and the unfree ones didn't? How many explanations and excuses are needed for that?
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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by cmrdporcupine on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:44AM (#34451757)
My god, you have this hammer, and you're really searching to find a nail for it...
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