“Accumulation through waste”

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Aside from the obvious, it’s also interesting to see the stagnation under Brezhnev. Maybe if he had been more “authoritarian” instead of being a revisionist, one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century could have been avoided. stalin-stressed

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      A large problem was that people who lived through WW2 had a lot of health problems as a result, and the best the healthcare system could do at the time was barely compensating for them.