Links: https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/corporate-tax-rate https://tradingeconomics.com/austria/corporate-tax-rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

Links: https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/corporate-tax-rate https://tradingeconomics.com/austria/corporate-tax-rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

I dont support it i think it was crazy by Putin. But i still praise many things about the former Soviet Union and Maoist china and yugoslavia and cuba etc. . For example that everybody was garanteed a minimum income through the federal job guarantees and the low income inequality etc. .

If thats the case i think thats stupid and i think many would call me a tankie.

I dont think most tankies would say Russia is today socialist. 30% of employees in Russia work for the state in 2016 compared to 70-90% in 1985. And the biggest predisessor parties of Putin´s party United Russia were hard supported by the CIA and the US(because the parties were right wing and for capitalism and free markets etc. .) to win the russian 1991 and 1996 election before they started to rig election results.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/14o601y/oc_how_well_the_richest_top_1_have_been_doing_the/

If India went the path of the chinese in 1955 instead of democratic capitalism i think they would have had the same results as China today. You could argue China has been also prevented from improving medical care until the communist party stopped letting it happen.

they would be included in the death rate and russia had a high one before it went to above the world avarage cause of ww2.

And the billionaire owned media(fox news etc.) is arguing in good faith regards to communism?

Edit: If i wanted to argue in bad faith i would not have posted any statistic.

Can culture get changed through policy? I think so. The soviet union was very heavily isolationist and still industrialized cause it was in their central plan to do it.

Edit: if you look at the export and import to gdp ratios https://www.reddit.com/user/nerbert123/comments/1czws2d/soviet_union_statistics/#lightbox

why did it spread to south korea only in 1960? and not earlier? Why has it still not spread to africa and india today?

I was just saying it cause some people might think that it cant be true when the great leap forward happened.

Life expectancy also rose like that in the entire eastern block: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_Hungary.svg https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041400/life-expectancy-poland-all-time/ etc.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? Do you not believe the stats?

Edit2: If it is so easy why was India and Africa after WW2 still below the world avarage?

I have not said it didnt happen and it doesnt make those statements in the meme wrong.

and russia and china didnt have this(only resources, opportunities, and localized wealth.) until the communist parties came to power?

Industrialization does not magically happen. There need to be active policies done to make it happen like tariffs on manufactured goods or state ownership or subsidies for manufacturing etc. . Those policies have not been done enough in todays 3rd world countries and they were done in russia and china when they were backward and they went from backward countries to industrialized countries while having low wealth and income inequality.

Edit: Yes it proves your point but also my point.

Industrialization is a big part of marxist thought and many countries around the world still havent industrialized to this day. For example countries in africa and india etc. . So that industrialization even happened is a good thing.

Edit: But to answer your question here are some industrialized countries added to the chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?time=1870..latest&country=OWID_WRL~CHN~RUS~USA~GBR

Edit2: Income inequality was drastically reduced after the communist parties came to power: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/14o601y/oc_how_well_the_richest_top_1_have_been_doing_the/

The statistic https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?time=1870..latest&country=OWID_WRL~CHN~RUS

Edit: And Russia went to below the world avarage after the communist party gave up power in russia in 1991.

Well i included it cause i found it interesting and unexpected given that "Communism killed millions of people" is often said.

agreed just a lot of work to do

Do you think this life expectancy statistic https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041395/life-expectancy-russia-all-time/ is also not right?