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[–] 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)

"Your ideology has had a century of being violently suppressed. Clearly my ideology that has been around 150 years longer than that of being in full control of the world's resources and is leading to the extinction of human life on the planet is better."

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  • [+] -7 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

    You could say that of Cuba, but the Soviet Union wasn't really even being suppressed during its peak.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    The Soviet Union and its allies were 100% being economically suppressed by the west. If the citizens of a capitalist/imperialist puppet state gain self determination and economic freedom through revolution or even by liberal electoralism, they are ostracized and their governments are punished via economic sanctions and/or outright violence. Liberal bourgeois democracies can be either left or right leaning, even fascist leaning, but once they cross the threshold of economic parity, they are no longer worth anything to the capitalist classes that control and influence the world economy.

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