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I suppose Stalin's Russia was also capitalism's fault somehow
The point is that it's a class war. It always has been. It's about a system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.
Oh wait. that's capitalism. Amazing how much soviet Russians government has in common with "capitalism."
That's not capitalism that's just greed, one is an economic system the other is human nature that'll come out in any society
The problem is that NutWrench is wrong, here. Wealth disparity shrank during the Soviet system and was higher before and after it, while median wages rose and GDP rapidly grew.