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MedeaLysistrata posted...

a command economy is extremely viable, and as technology develops it becomes even more viable.

remember, socialism brought Russia to the status of an economic superpower in the period of a few decades. before that, it was a backwater agricultural country. Cuba developed one of the greatest healthcare systems in the world.

Marxism hasn't grown because it was virtually abandoned, and any country that tries to be socialist gets shit on by the global community. capitalism is bound to do better as it stands because the global system is set up for capitalism already.

also i'm not a 'marxist', i just think command economies aren't given their due.

I'm asking you to assess the viability of Marxism specifically. You are defending Marxism, so in my eyes that makes you a Marxist. And you talk about Russia being an economic superpower while completely ignoring how that was built on labor camps and forced slave labor of its innocent citizens, which ended up killing 10s of millions of people, and ultimately failed completely which led to the dissolution of the USSR. Idk how you could possibly speak on the "successes" of Marxism without also acknowledging how it proved to be completely unsustainable.
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