And that was after being completely devastated during the war, and rebuilding to challenge the US who sat the war out and built out their industries while the rest of the world burned.
Now measure it per capita
You can do better than AI slop, come on now
Communism is not about an economy, but about freedom of science, education, and general peoples wellbeing
So stop fucking measuring it by Capitalist standards
Its like calling a Banana a lesser fruit because it has less seeds in it than a cocoa fruit.
Economy is just “the state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services”
So no, it doesn’t have to be capitalist, it just has to facilitate the production and consumption of goods and services.
If a communist government distributes food among its citizens, that is facilitating the consumption of goods. That’s economy.
But that’s the cool thing about communism: doesn’t matter how you measure it, it’s always better.
Its actually kinda about both.
Improving people’s well-being? So, like making sure they have good food and a place to live and medicine and clothes and transport and some entertainment and stuff? So, having a good economy?
Both can be true. Over time the Soviet Union economy got worse because there was no corrective mechanism. A lot of the leadership (especially Stalin) was more interested in maintaining their own power than governing effectively. The Soviet Union being subject to US interference couldn’t be a democracy, but it’s difficult to correct errors in the economy without democracy.
China has managed to overcome the issue of dictatorships, and it’ll be interesting to see what’ll happen as America shoots itself in the foot.
