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The State Duma proposed to reduce the working hours of Russians to six hours a day (iz.ru)

submitted 5 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can't really see him embracing communism to be honest. He's been fairly vocal in saying he thinks USSR was a failure. But, people are starting to realize that not everything was bad in USSR, and that it got a lot of things right.

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, are we coming to the place where "socialism" is "communism lite?" I'm really tired and probably shouldn't be posting right now, but we'll see.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In Marxist terminology, socialism is a transitional stage where existing capitalist relations persist, but the working class holds power in society. So, if Russia can get to a place where there is a communist party firmly in charge the way there is in China, then it would enter socialist stage of development.

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 months ago

I was speaking tongue in cheek, using it the way other instances do. My b.