>>40530855>>40530829not saying i believe it, but sometimes when you read stories of people subverting the soviet system it's hard not to believe theirs failed in a more humanizing way than ours by encouraging people to co-operate to subvert it. which ultimately might be why they overthrew communism but we can't even vote away neoliberal capitalism into some other kind of capitalism.
in the USSR, you pretend to work and your boss pretends to pay you. in our system, you actually do work and your boss actually does pay you, but you still can't cover rent. meanwhile, twitter exists to remind you there are "normal" people "like you" out there buying $500 game carts, $5000 fursuits and $500,000 private airplanes, and you just have to sit there and allow lies like that to pass. i guess because the USSR had a central weak point (the communist party/state) people could realize they hated while we've successfully distributed power to a bunch of different places.
again, i'm not actually saying i could go from living my current lifestyle to dealing with life in the USSR, or that it was some paradise. it's just that the dehumanization that comes from everyone rationally trying to make money penetrates far more deeply than the dehumanization that comes from the party leadership. when the party tells you to do something, that's obviously external coercion. when you could make some extra money by doing something harmful to others, and you need the money, your brain will often tell you that actually you're not doing anything bad at all. i guess what i'm saying is that it's easy to understand how humanity holds out against communism, but not against whatever you want to call what we've got now.
