By Fernando Navarro Robuschi:

Among the many breath-taking achievements of the USSR (thanks to socialist policies) I think the most important (by virtue of being directly related to life), is the achievement of "Food Security" in all the republics.

The concept of "Food security" has more than one definition, but essentially means:

"When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to affordable, nutritious food in sufficient quantity"

"Sufficient" as in "enough to grow up/develop in a healthy way"

This was the case in the USSR. Thanks, among other things (such as centrally managing the country's resources and the use of administrative prices), to the collectivization of the countryside.

After the extremely bad harvest of 1932-1933 (which caused a famine in the Ukrainian SSR and was in turn caused not only by bad weather but also by the Kulaks killing/eating their own cattle and burning their crops in protest to the collectivization drive) famine nev

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1898250

This is BIG.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/638597

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Lenin was correct when describing The Economist as "a journal which speaks for British millionaires", but honestly this cover goes HARD

One step closer to joining the party 😎

who is a full blown marxist-leninist here?

Transcript:

‘Capital is dead labour, that, vampire‐like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him.’

— Karl Marx, Capital, vol. I, ch. 10

(Original image by Starjet-Pilot.)

From RedYouth.org

In reference to this:

a hyuck

Transcript:

‘Our use value may be a thing that interests men. It is no part of us as objects. What, however, does belong to us as objects, is our value. Our natural intercourse as commodities proves it. In the eyes of each other we are nothing but exchange values.’