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Les mecs qui ne lisent que des bouquins de Lénine et autres théoriciens du passé = profondément réactionnaires

Nadie dice que China es socialista sólo porque el sector público dirige la economía. Se trata de dos cosas: a) Tienen una administración democrática (SWRC). b) No tienen incentivo de ganancia. El PCCh busca elevar el nivel de vida y lo ha hecho. Un capitalista no hace eso.

Hasan Piker: ‘The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest CATASTROPHES of the 20th century. Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner, child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting, but America was no longer contested around the globe. And it is precisely because of the end to that multipolarity that we saw accelerated neoliberalism that is devastating every Western nation right now. Unlimited and unchecked greed. Our successes are leading to our own demise and the demise and collapse of the liberal system. The US has produced disaster after disaster after disaster.’

Michael Parenti explaining why the US’ elites feared the historical example set by the October Revolution, led by Vladimir Lenin. For the first time in the history of the world, the great unwashed masses, took over an entire nation. What followed over the next few decades were dramatic improvements to peoples’ lives by every metric: In 1917, Russia was mostly illiterate and agrarian. By 1959, literacy exceeded 98%, and the USSR had one of the world’s most educated populations Life expectancy rose from roughly 32 years (1917) to the high-60s by the late 1950s, despite the devastation of World War 2. Industrial output (1913-1940): 🔹 Electricity 2 → 48 billion kWh (24×) 🔹 Steel 4.2 → 18.3 Mt (4×) 🔹 Coal 28.9 → 164.6 Mt (6×) By 1960 the USSR generated 290 billion kWh of electricity, second only to the United States. Doctors per 10,000 people increased from 14.6 in 1950 to 23.9 by 1965. Hospital beds increased from 57.7 to 96 per 10,000 people The urban population rose from 15% in 1917 to a majority by the early 1960s. GNP growth averaged 5–6 % per year in the 1950s, among the highest globally. Not to mention, the Soviet Union led the defeat of Nazi Germany and crushed fascism. Roughly 75% of all of Nazi Germany’s military deaths in World War 2 were at the hands of Stalin’s Red Army.