Post by @harcesz@szmer.info

2026-08-31 12:20 UTC

“Well-supplied” compared to what? Compared to this broad choice of vinegar on the shelves. Would you say that stores in most of the capitalist world were well-supplied? Quality wise? Fuck no, obviously. But there is at least food one could steal if not buy. There’s enough to run free soup kitchens and the likes. As opposed to there being not enough, while food is exported from your country. My point is exactly, that living experience of a soviet satellite state is not much different from that of a capitalist colony. There’s no food? To bad. Workers rebel? You drive a tank over them.

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@Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml 2026-08-31 12:56

Compared to this broad choice of vinegar on the shelves. So, you can’t actually say what you are comparing the USSR to? (It is overwhelmingly likely that you are comparing the USSR to colonial metropoles, and ignore most of the world.) Quality wise? Fuck no, obviously. But there is at least food one could steal if not buy. And yet, people in the USSR weren’t struggling with food as much as most of the capitalist world. Hell, there is a famine in Madagascar.) Yes capitalist economy is terrible, but for some there is a framework of comparison. One you chose to ignore/deny. What is that “other framework”? Pillaging Africa, Asia, and elsewhere outside of Europe? Generally my point is exactly that living experience of a soviet satellite state was not much different from that of a capitalist colony. There’s no food? To bad. Workers rebel? Okay. What famines are you referring to that happened during your adulthood in the USSR? You drive a tank over them. Like when? It’s just that this was mirrored under another banner Okay, what people did the USSR engaged in colonialism against, and which ones did it subject to genocide? Also, I am going to point out again that no, neither what came before, nor what came after was/has been better.

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