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yes you are, never suggested to let me make your decisions on your behalf but merely a discussion.
My opinion is that if you are complaining about increasing costs of living, then most likely the culprits are people who hoard wealth and still increase prices of goods "because inflation and taxes" while making record profits. I highly doubt it is a girl who tries to tackle this interconnected web of "who is the most powerful" insanity from one of its corners.
@iAvicenna Yea, you have the typical communist mentality, if you don't have enough goods, it's not because there aren't enough goods, it's because they aren't equally distributed.
The Bolsheviks had this mentality. They had a few big land owners farming the land and providing food for the masses. But the Bolsheviks thought everyone should own an equal amount of land, so they took it away from the farmers, divided it up, and gave it to all the plebs.
The end results, the new land owners didn't know how to farm and ten million people starved to death.
Well for one I would not see my self as a communist (I don't even know enough of the theory to make such bold claims, but neither do you as it seems like). Secondly, I am a big fan of people with expertise and know-how producing goods and find that setup much more efficient and safe (unless when profits are prioritized over safety obviously). Finally you have grossly oversimplified a historical event to the point where it just serves the same purpose as fabricated piece of data. The lands were not only owned by few big land owners and Bolsheviks sure as hell did not just tramp over a couple of giant farming oligarchies, they tramped over millions of small to medium sized producers as well. A lot of the land were owned by kulaks, most of which were akin to business owners of today (but no where near corporate conglomerates), perhaps roughly corresponding to ~%5 of the population. The event you described is known in history as dekulakization where by millions of such people were affected by the harsh measures taken (deportation, execution, imprisonment). Even after mass dekulakization, the soviet government continued to confiscate grains from any peasants that did not look like they were starving. If you try to associate the methods of such a mentally insane government with advantages of equal distribution of goods then you lack the basic capabilities of critical thinking, sorry. So in summary, what has happened back then is no where near the story you have fabricated above. It was clearly a move of political motivation and has nothing to do with what is going on today, i.e truly only couple conglomerates owning the means of production to everything and suffocating the small producers out of business by market monopoly and then running amock with pricing and profits.
This rhetoric of "communists did blah, socialists did bluh and then look what happened" does not apply to today really. We are facing a different beast now. Unchecked corporate oligarchies were allowed to become so powerful that only a handful of people in each country are dominating most of the production and political landscape; %5 of the population owning the means of food production sounds like a heaven compared to the situation we are in:
Revealed: the true extent of America’s food monopolies, and who pays the price
Just a couple weeks ago a mentally insane billionaire was randomly firing hundreds of thousands of people from their jobs in government because he thought they were unnecessary. When governments start to prioritize interests of corporate oligarchies over the people they represent, we may as well be fucked my friend. The only chance of living a decent life is either completely going off the grid and waiting to die or identifying who your enemies are correctly and making them realize that they depend more on you then you on them:
Energy giants see £457 billion profits as consumers’ bills rise
British Gas profits leap from £72m to £751m in a year
Energy firm profits top £483 billion since start of crisis
And you still think a girl is the main reason your are paying more for energy and gas lol.
@iAvicenna Knowing history is even better than knowing theory, theory is just that, history is fact.
well then I suggest you get (or present) a more refined understanding of historical facts rather than taking (or presenting) them as pills, as you do injustice to history then.
@iAvicenna You can stick your head in the ground and ignore history but it has the unfortunate side effect of likely leading to your own demise and potentially others.
you can fabricate historical facts and or pretend like everything you heard from someone is factually accurate because it fits the narrative in your head but it has the same side effects that you have mentioned
@iAvicenna Your accusations of what I know to be facts as being fabrications only points to your own lack of knowledge.
I know, history is scary, if we get too attached to the past we might be tempted to recreate it. The truth is NOT knowing history is what dooms you to recreate it.
Picture yourself on a boat on the ocean, far away from any land. If you don't know where you've been how do you know you're not going around in circles?
you only go in circles if you twist the historical facts like you do
@iAvicenna Well I guess you're destining us to re-live it.
It is more like you are cursed to repeat this infinitely many times and I am just passing by, enjoy.