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  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I have a couple of relatives who lived in the USSR and they were also very happy with their lives there. They liked that they had all their needs met by virtue of being a citizen, they had a good standard of living no matter what kind of job they did, they got tons of vacation time and the government would pay for them to go on vacation.

    I think they believed in the socialist project more broadly, but they weren’t as ideological as this woman seems to be. I think they were socialists because of what socialism could do for them rather than champions of the revolutionary cause or whatever. That’s part of the beauty of a post revolutionary, functional state: people have the luxury of not caring about politics so much if they don’t want to.

    Also, idk if it’s just the editing, but grandaughter is disrespectful as hell and needs to be hit with a sandal

    • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      I think they believed in the socialist project more broadly, but they weren’t as ideological as this woman seems to be. I think they were socialists because of what socialism could do for them rather than champions of the revolutionary cause or whatever.

      As someone living in a hellstate, the idea that average people would just get onboard with socialism because it’s cool and good and beneficial is like… waow-based