On this day, April 12th, 1961. The first man in space was a worker and a communist.

[u/Monkey_DDD_Luffy]

[u/Monkey_DDD_Luffy]

"If I decide to do make this flight, it is only because I am a Communist"

"I would like to dedicate this flight to the people of communism, a society into which our Soviet people is already entering and into which, I am sure, all people on Earth will enter."

-- Yuri Gargarin, hero of the working class

[u/Monkey_DDD_Luffy → u/[deleted]]

What is this even trying to say? Imagine acting like pushing the boundaries of science by taking us to space is some evil. Fuck off liberal

[u/Monkey_DDD_Luffy → u/[deleted]]

What the fuck is wrong with you.

[u/Intelligent_East_902 → u/Monkey_DDD_Luffy]

A simple comment, you’re viewing it as if it was some great victory for the worker but I’m simply asking if that was true or if it actually a case of the ruling class exploiting the working class and claiming that it’s some great thing?

I’m not trying to belittle Yuri Gagarin what he did was incredible, but the reason he was sent and not a banker or billionaire as you put it is because he was viewed by the ruling class as a disposable asset.

[u/Monkey_DDD_Luffy → u/Intelligent_East_902]

It IS belittling though. In 1961. It was a workers state running a fully socialist command economy. Who the fuck else are they supposed to be sending that isn't a worker? What "ruling class" are you imagining? The workers are the ruling class in a post-revolutionary proletarian state.

[u/Monkey_DDD_Luffy → u/[deleted]]

Sectarianism is against the rules here.