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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 20 days ago

Capitalism is the root of evil

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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 20 days ago
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    if we have learnt one thing from the past it is that hammer and sickle countries are in dire need of agriculture products.

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      Meanwhile in the real world:

      Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition:

      • https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5

      Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth

      • https://web.archive.org/web/20200119044114/https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.507.8966&rep=rep1&type=pdf

      Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time:

      • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1

      A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life:

      • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amjph00269-0055.pdf

      This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development.

      • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2430906/

      This study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.

      • https://academic.oup.com/cje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cje/beac072/7081084?guestAccessKey=01c8dd9f-af1c-48b3-b271-eb5d3a45017c&login=false

      Romania, the inustrialization of an agrarian economy under socialist planning

      • https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/888851468333915517/pdf/multi0page.pdf

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