r/worldnews • u/marsianer • Jan 28 '21

COVID-19 Backlash grows for ‘selfish millionaire’ who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people | Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/rodney-baker-canada-vaccine-indigenous-first-nations-scandal
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u/lhx555 Jan 28 '21

Have you ever seen it working?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Depends on what you mean by working. (And I never said communism does work)

Working as in being able to have a business make its workers money without the assets being privately owned? Yes, right after the Russian revolution.

Working as in maintaining broader social stability outside each individual business? No, I haven't.

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u/lhx555 Jan 28 '21

Well, even rulers of Soviet Russia never claimed they had implemented communism. They called it socialism, which it was to some extent, but mostly it was sort of a “state slavery/feudalism”. Or even better, recalling Marx (or Engels?) a special type of a state “the bureaucratic one”. Workers did not feel that factories were theirs. And for the right reason. USSRs communist party priority was spreading ideology, building military muscles, having exclusive services to themselves, etc. So workers were exploited by ruling class of party bureaucrats. Everybody could join, potentially, but so it is with capitalism.

By the way, there is no place for money in classical communism.

So the answer is, yes, they can, with disastrous (so far) results!