“Muh Soviet in a supermarket” story in 2023? My comment was also about McDonald’s in the USSR, so they’re feeling super exceptionalist over fast food slop.
Link You can’t see this through Hexbear because they were banned for racism, war crime apologism and ableism 
USSR: Supermarket items are a little basic, the interiors aren’t too ritzy, etc. but everyone is well fed and there wasn’t a horrifying system of exploitation that was needed to put food on the shelves. This is literally 1984.
‘Murica: one thousand flavors of sliced white bread brought to you by millions of suffering workers, plus they painted the interior green so it’s basically a luxury hotel. Behold, freedom and democracy!
Communist theory is thousand page tomes. Liberal theory is a series of unverifiable anecdotes.
There is actually a pretty sizeable corpus of liberal philosophy and theory, but it’s not really meant for the average non-bourgeois lib, especially since those types of guys are generally pretty uncurious and operate mostly on vibes (and propaganda)
All the important foundational liberal economic theory was written before or during Marx’s lifetime and Marx tore it to shreds. He dedicates tens of thousands of words and dozens of citations to discussing Adam Smith alone, and he actually kinda likes Adam Smith. All liberal economics since Marx has been lame attempts at repudiating or obfuscating the existence of surplus value, or class in general.
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Meanwhile on Sunday I went to my local grocery store and they had no carts. They said they removed carts because people kept stealing by filling them up and walking out the door. I wandered around a few minutes and wasn’t able to find much on my list because they were out of what I needed. And then I left without getting anything and ate out instead.
Sounds like capitalism grocery store isn’t so good after all
Critical support for the capitalist grocery store for letting people have free food 🫡
Okay now do uninsured person from a former Soviet state trying to get health care
Go on then, dismiss me with your hexbear memes and be gone.
So pouty
Stories that totally happened for $500, Alex
And that Soviet’s name was Albert Einstein
because they were banned for racism, war crime apologism and ableism
every time
I bet American supermarkets were better for the elites than soviet markets. That’s kind of the point.
Real choice is going into the cereal aisle in a grocery store and seeing eighteen different brands of HFCS all owned by the same company.
Has anyone noticed a huge uptick in libs saying the phrase “historical revisionism” in the last couple years? What drove this? Ukraine?
EDIT: Even google trends sees it
A fucking shitjustworks poster arguing against this poster’s shit? Wild.
Commies say the dumbest shit
Okay guy who named themself after a Nazi warplane
Someone posted a bunch of pictures from the Soviet Union a while back. Their grocery stores looked just like grocery stores anywhere, except the Soviets apparently didn’t give a fuck about facing (lining goods up to the front of the shelf) (they weren’t wrong).
In the unlikely chance this story is true then the reality is that yeah, someone coming from the Eastern bloc might initially be overwhelmed to tears by the illusion of choice provided by western supermarkets. Thats all thats going on though. Just being overwhelmed by the flashiness of it. That doesnt prove its a good thing or that capitalism is better.
We just had this discussion as well with the ‘bananas under socialism’ discourse.
You get choice because others don’t.
The GDR imported some food items from Vietnam and other fraternity socialist countries. Those items were often not so well stocked in the FRG. You can ask around in urban centers after gentrification today would they rather have bananas only rarely but a flat that is theirs or bananas but no flat?
There was also a ton of propaganda spread to Eastern Bloc countries by the US and its allies, and there were obviously people who believed everything was better in the West. Parenti mentions this in Blackshirts and Reds as one of the biggest problems for AES countries.
I always love how these are the same people who will scream how “anecdotal claims aren’t evidence!”
