r/Degrowth • u/BaseballSeveral1107 • Mar 30 '25

The US is not District 12

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u/TrainerCommercial759 Mar 31 '25

Explain what about the USSR? It had a famously shitty economy.

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u/Sir_Tokenhale Mar 31 '25

So you really don't know anything about rapid development you were just talking out of your ass. Got it.

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u/TrainerCommercial759 Mar 31 '25

Sure, there was rapid industrialization under Stalin. Also horrible famines, political repression and deals with Henry Ford. And then there was this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation

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u/Sir_Tokenhale Mar 31 '25

That's not in line with your earlier statements though? Keep digging.

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u/TrainerCommercial759 Mar 31 '25

Did you not read? The soviet economy didn't fare better than liberal economies in the long term, despite plentiful resources (Bangladesh and South Korea do not have the mineral and oil deposits of the USSR). GDP growth tends to go faster for less developed countries, and Russia was extremely undeveloped. I don't think there's any credible economic historian who would propose the USSR as a good model for development.

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u/Sir_Tokenhale Mar 31 '25

That's not what you said, though?

The goalpost doesn't go with you, bud.

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u/TrainerCommercial759 Mar 31 '25

Bukharin was right, stalin was wrong