yeah, communist elites had access, not wealth. they had connections and could arrange things. note that this is still massively less corrupt than capitalist elites, where the corruption is built right into the system, and is mostly legalized.
well, and some of them used their connections to get the nice houses taken from the bourgeoisie. at least i assume it was that way in the SU too. i know my grandma’s older sister got a pretty nice house and dacha in hungary. but of course they then didnt (and couldnt) turn that into a real-estate empire or whatever ghoul shit capitalist elites do.
true. also those (relative) privileges also extended to important engineers, scientists, managers and veterans of the great patriotic war. all of those groups are infinitely more deserving of wealth and prosperity than the “people” who get rich under capitalism
Economically, a true equality will never happen., however, I could deal with the world a lot better if the wealth disparity between the richest and poorest person was under 15 times higher or something like that instead of the 2478 times or higher that it is under capitalism.
Even Marx had some praises of Capitalism. Funny how just doing your best to make things more equal can result in better outcomes! It’s almost as if having high score boards and encouraging people to reach the top of that numbers game just encourages people to whatever it takes to do so.
yeah, communist elites had access, not wealth. they had connections and could arrange things. note that this is still massively less corrupt than capitalist elites, where the corruption is built right into the system, and is mostly legalized.
well, and some of them used their connections to get the nice houses taken from the bourgeoisie. at least i assume it was that way in the SU too. i know my grandma’s older sister got a pretty nice house and dacha in hungary. but of course they then didnt (and couldnt) turn that into a real-estate empire or whatever ghoul shit capitalist elites do.
true. also those (relative) privileges also extended to important engineers, scientists, managers and veterans of the great patriotic war. all of those groups are infinitely more deserving of wealth and prosperity than the “people” who get rich under capitalism
Economically, a true equality will never happen., however, I could deal with the world a lot better if the wealth disparity between the richest and poorest person was under 15 times higher or something like that instead of the 2478 times or higher that it is under capitalism.
even capitalism works better when the ratio is 15 instead of a bazillion, but capitalism has no mechanism to stop it from eating itself
Even Marx had some praises of Capitalism. Funny how just doing your best to make things more equal can result in better outcomes! It’s almost as if having high score boards and encouraging people to reach the top of that numbers game just encourages people to whatever it takes to do so.