cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/467394

My first time trying cross-posting, hope I did this right

Source: Piketty’s World Inequality Report 2022

I shared this deep in a dunk thread earlier and figured there’s probably many comrades who haven’t seen this data. I think it’s very good rhetorically because a lot of libs have an incredibly vibes-based impression that the Soviet Union was just an Animal Farm old-boss-same-as-the-new-boss situation.

Instead, this demonstrates that Russia underwent one of the most dramatic inversions of income inequality of any country in recorded history.

For comparison here is the US over the same time period:

China:

And the UK:

  • EuthanatosMurderhobo@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    1 year ago

    That’s usually when they break out the “well duh, commies want everyone to be equally poor” “argument”. Also, you might wanna imply that bottleneck on charts for western countries is linked to their capitalists having to give more pittances to the workers to stop them from looking the USSR’s way if you want to see some smoldering rectums.