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if you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free?

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A few corrections for my comtards;

I don't remember any fruit trees in my Хрущёвка growing up.

Alao, you could request a bigger apartment, but as my grandma was fond of saying, 'you can write 'cock' on a fence, it would still be wood' (something may have been lost in translation). The majority of families were living 3-4 generations in a one bedroom apartment with an indefinite wait to upgrade.

You sad fucks living 3-8 roomates deep with no cars and no money left over between bills are already living the communist experience, leave the rest of us out of it.

jorp

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A country that went from serfdom to industrial economy in 30 years then got absolutely wrecked in ww2 losing millions of its population might not be able to pull it off as well as we could today

Zorque

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It also helps to not have a brutal dictatorship in charge.

Thankfully we only have a plutocracy!

Etterra

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Isn't it more of a corporate geritocracy?

Zorque

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Only in that those with money tend to be older, as they've had longer to accumulate wealth.

Age is only a secondary consideration to money. Plenty of old people are getting just as squeezed as everyone else, just with less recourse.

wintermute_oregon

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I fascinated by that phrase.

Yeah I friends that are communist survivors. Luckily they were decent ranking in the party. They only had their share their house with another family of party members. They also didn’t have heat, air conditioning or running water.

I remember when they bought their first house. It was like 1600 square feet and they couldn’t imagine one family having so much space