• Mika@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Oh but they did try. You just prefer to ignore it, but soviet union did attempt different tricks from the communist rulebook - moneyless society was tried and failed, so they had to fall back to working practices from capitalist rulebook and promise the people “communism in the brighter future”.

    Same way communism was tried in Makhnovschina, Gulyay Pole (south-eastern Ukraine). Stateless, anarchy driven flavour of such. USSR killed all of them and then killed everyone who visited the funeral, btw, so they were afraid of them A LOT. What can we learn from anarchy? That Ukrainian farmers who were not forced into communist state preferred to have monetary relationships :-)

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      moneyless society was tried and failed

      What are you talking about? They always had money. The reform you mention was the return to basing the value of their currency on gold to stabilise it against inflation.

      (something, btw, most capitalist states have moved away from nowadays)