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Explain Like I'm Five

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[โ€“] dandylion@lemmy.today -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Socialism by its barest definition is great." That's what I thought too until I learned about the USSR's Socialism and how it led to starvation, torture, war, and nearly caused a nuclear apocalypse. It's easy to romanticize socialism in theory, but we must remember the horrors it has caused in practice.

[โ€“] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Lmao thats just the short version of my comment