Hi there folks,

While trying to learn about communism, I’m having problems finding literature that provides and example life under Communism. What I do find is propaganda either against or for it, involving unrealistic and bombastic content that is clearly not rooted in reality.

I’m not looking for historical content because I’m just trying to figure out what a life that the group is striving for would be like.

Thanks for your time!

  • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    The Marxist-Leninist YouTuber Hakim has made some videos with book recommendations, and this specific video is about how the USSR worked. I’m particularly interested in the Soviet Union since it’s the first Socialist state to exist, and it shaped the history of the 20th century in Europe as well as much of Asia and America, as well as because it’s one of the most “far from modern capitalism” examples of states that there have been in the past century.

    Other than that, I read a small pamphlet by the Soviet minister of economy A. Zveriev, written in 1959, about what soviet workers receive besides their salaries. It talks about access to housing, to healthcare, to education, pensions, etc. in the USSR at the time. I have a physical copy in Spanish and I haven’t been able to find a digital one in English, if you’re interested in the Spanish one I could scan it and send you.

    Best of luck!