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All social configurations are mediated by the material conditions of society. What tends to occur is that humans, the social animal, will build communities around shared interests. These shared interests are more often than not, shared resources. The tribal confederation might organize itself around a river's watershed. The trade unionists rallies the workers around the workplace, the resource upon which the worker depends for income.
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3 days after his inauguration, Obama launched his first drone strikes.[1] Before he is inaugurated, he has Citibank privately vet his cabinet.
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After being razed to the ground by a World War and a foreign-backed Civil War, and under constant economic and diplomatic assault, the Soviet Union...
- Raised life expectancy by 65%.[2]
- Increased real income by 370%. Housing, medicine, transport and insurance accounted for 15% of family income, compared to 50% in US.[3]
- Eliminated homelessness. Housing was provided based on need and rent averaged 2-3% of family income, compared to 25-30% in the US.[4]
- Eliminated unemployment. A job was considered a right, firing was rare and had to be cleared by the employee's union, and employers were required to find redundant workers new employment and pay for retraining and cost of living.[5]
- Provided healthcare as a right. The USSR had the highest ratio of doctors to population in the world and one of the highest quality healthcare systems, including preventative care and house visits.[6]
- Achieved full literacy from a starting point of 38% for men and 12% for women.[7]
- Raised school enrollment by 460%.[8]
- Provided secondary education as a right as well as a cost of living stipend to students maintaining a 'B' average.[4]
- Heavily subsidized early childcare. Fees for pre-schools didn't exceed 2-3% of family income and 50% of urban and 33% of rural children attended day-care, compared to 10% in the US overall.[4]
- Eliminated the gender pay gap.[9]
Socialist Commodity Production[edit | edit source]
This topic was recommended to use by @Diatra1917 on Twitter
Sources to use:
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR[10]
- Dialogue with Stalin[11]
- Transition to Socialist Economy by Charles Bettleheim[12]
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- ↑ "Victim of Obama's first drone strike: 'I am the living example of what drones are'" (2016-01-23).
- ↑ A. Szymanski, On the Uses of Disinformation to Legitimize Revival of the Cold War: Health and the USSR, Science and Society, Winter, 1981.
- ↑ Corrigan, Philip, Ramsay, Harvie and Sayer, Derek, Bolshevism and the USSR, New Left Review, No. 125, January-February, 1981.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 George, Vic and Manning, Nick, Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
- ↑ Gregory, Paul R. and Stuart, Robert C., Soviet Economic Structure and Performance, New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
- ↑ Sivard, Rugh Legar, World Military and Social Expenditures, Leeburg, Virginia: WMISE Publications, 1980.
- ↑ Mickiewicz, Ruth, Handbook of Soviet Social Science Data, New York: Free Press, 1973.
- ↑ Central Statistical Board of the USSR, The USSR in Figures for 1978, Moscow Statisika Publishers, 1978.
- ↑ St. George, George, Our Soviet Sister, New York: Robert B. Luce, 1973
- ↑ https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm
- ↑ https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/transitiontosoci0000bett