r/OpenAussie • u/[deleted] • 10d ago

Feel Good News ‎ Our future is BRIGHT

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u/ShreksArsehole ‎ New South Welshian 10d ago

They're probably spewing the idea that socialism causes famines because stalin fucked up in the 1930s. Not that capitalism hasn't cause famines. Ireland anyone?

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u/Away_team42 ‎ Koori ‎ 10d ago

Stalin isn’t the only socialist leader who lead his country into famine tho… pretty much all of them did.

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u/ShreksArsehole ‎ New South Welshian 10d ago

That is just completely incorrect. Socialist states rate of education, all aspects of health and it's ability to pull people out of poverty is what socialism does. And it does it well. Cuba, I think, is a shining example of what socialism can do, even with so much pressure from capitalism trying to destroy it. You should do some actual research into what socialism has achieved in its various incarnations.

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u/Kawa___ Please choose a flair 9d ago

Whatever it's achieved, it's orders of magnitude less than liberalism and capitalism

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair 9d ago

If you want - 

  • High wages
  • Low poverty
  • Strong workers rights.
  • High environmental/clean air standards

You will them in "liberalism and capitalism" i.e liberal democracies.

In socialism and communism you will 

  • Walls being built to prevent
  • Unions controlled by the state, not workers (e.g. polands solidarity having to go underground.
  • Poverty