Why does Communism succeed in building things from scratch but not succeed in prospering?
>>18256633USSR went from a sack of tsarist shit to putting the first satellite, animal, and man in space in 40 years while being invaded and burned to the ground in between. China lifted 800 million from extreme poverty in 30 years and is now clapping western infrastructure. They do this by central planning and state ownership, instead of bootlicking for private profit.
>>18256641And both never broadly prosperous
>>18256653?
>>18256662Pretty skyline = no mass poverty?
>>18256662something that happens when you follow reformists instead of retard communists
>>18256653most countries outside of city states don't enjoy "broad prosperity". That's the problem when capitalists skew quality of life studies by measuring them in centers of commerce like new york or los angeles (which capitalists also dub "unstable shitholes") and adding meaningless variables to translate their consumerism to stanard of living as if a 12$ iced coffee from mcdonalds is what everybody needs.
>>18256701Postwar America was peak and broadly prosperous. It is Communist contemporary left-wing fiction to suggest that this was not the case.
That depends how you define prosperity, ideally they would prefer to raise the floor instead of the ceiling
>>18256715i guess for americans, someone's daughter twerking in a trailer park is peak.but what do you consider prosperity? because rural america is still as ass backwards as it was when sherman burned down atlanta
>>18256641If you think that China doesn’t use a mixed capitalist economy you’re retarded. And the ussr literally piggybacked off German technology to go to space just as the us did.
>>18256633>communists>building from scratchEvery product was a cheap shitty imitation of a western product. Like look at soviet cars.
