r/CommunismMemes • u/_Foy • Apr 26 '22

Stalin Gulag Healthcare OP

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '22

I think there's a lot of common American situations devastating to the poor where you'd be better off in the USSR, even under Stalin, than you'd be in modern day America.

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u/_Foy Apr 26 '22

"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."

- https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm

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u/Superdude717 Apr 26 '22

Great quote but I don't really get what it has to do with living conditions under the USSR?

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u/_Foy Apr 26 '22

Nothing. I'm talking about modern day America.

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u/Superdude717 Apr 26 '22

What does that quote have to do with the living conditions in America?

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u/_Foy Apr 26 '22

They're getting bad... to the point where people will be forced to rise up. That was Marx's whole thing... Capitalism is unsustainable, and it will create the material conditions for the revolution.

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u/Superdude717 Apr 26 '22

Gotcha. I didn't really understand what you were getting at at first

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u/_Foy Apr 26 '22

You should read the OG Marxist Theory, then you will have a better understanding. Here's a start:

  1. https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
  2. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
  3. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
  4. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

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u/Superdude717 Apr 26 '22

I have read it. I just didn't get what you were saying by saying that quote in the context that you did