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Communism in time became like capitalism. The 'communists' high up in the government departments were living it up and bossing people around, you wouldn't know whether the party big wigs were communists or capitalists unless they told you as they acted the same and lived the same expensive lifestyles as the rich capitalists in the West.
As the production system broke down in communism they had to keep cutting back what the workers got, while still increasing what the big wig party bosses got. Eventually the pay was so small for workers that people didn't even show up for work. People began to work in the black market economy or just not work at all and hang around. The party couldn't kick people out of their houses or cut off their utilities because it was so many millions of people, there would be rioting that would bring down the state. The fate of the Soviet Union was sealed.
Likewise in the West we see that they are not kicking out renters who are behind in rent, or cutting off the utilities of people behind on their utility payments. Because its so widespread that its not really possible. Like you can kick people out and make a few hundred people homeless. You can't kick out a few million people and make them homeless. Its the same logic that is driving the de-policing. No government has managed to sustainably imprison more than 1% of its population. And the US is at the 1% of its populatiion in prison. They aren't really able to imprison more people. So they have to decriminalize things.
As the production system broke down in communism they had to keep cutting back what the workers got, while still increasing what the big wig party bosses got. Eventually the pay was so small for workers that people didn't even show up for work. People began to work in the black market economy or just not work at all and hang around. The party couldn't kick people out of their houses or cut off their utilities because it was so many millions of people, there would be rioting that would bring down the state. The fate of the Soviet Union was sealed.
Likewise in the West we see that they are not kicking out renters who are behind in rent, or cutting off the utilities of people behind on their utility payments. Because its so widespread that its not really possible. Like you can kick people out and make a few hundred people homeless. You can't kick out a few million people and make them homeless. Its the same logic that is driving the de-policing. No government has managed to sustainably imprison more than 1% of its population. And the US is at the 1% of its populatiion in prison. They aren't really able to imprison more people. So they have to decriminalize things.
