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Name one successful communist nation! (media.mas.to)
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[–] Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@Aatube @yogthos @NoiseColor

I'm not at all trying to suggest that Stalinist Russia was more free than modern-day America, just that many people think of America as a free country when it's actually closer to Stalinist Russia than they'd care to recognize.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My point is that the United States is indeed much less authoritarian. Saying that there's no such thing as a state that's more authoritarian or less authoritarian is denying reality.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

US incarceration rate is higher than what USSR had during Stalin's purges. It's hard to think of a better measure of how authoritarian a state is than the percentage of the population it keeps behind bars.