Michael Parenti raises this point when he discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union. He talked to one of his pro-capitalist Russian academic colleagues about it, asking “what about the free high quality education, the job guarantees, the universal healthcare and the housing?” to which the Russian responded “that’s funny, no one ever talks about those”.
Michael Parenti raises this point when he discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union. He talked to one of his pro-capitalist Russian academic colleagues about it, asking “what about the free high quality education, the job guarantees, the universal healthcare and the housing?” to which the Russian responded “that’s funny, no one ever talks about those”.
Yeah, he talks about this problem in detail in Blackshirts and Reds. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.