Questions tagged [communism]

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Can somebody explain to me why exactly people necessarily had to starve under "communist rule"?

So, all my life, I've been told certain things. One of the least controversial is the "truth" that if you pick communism for a country, people will automatically starve. Allegedly, this is because the rulers will (I frankly have no idea if this is…
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Shouldn't the price of the basic means of production be smaller than the gross domestic product?

I have never studiedeconomics, but I am reading the book "The less you know, the better you sleep" by David Scatter and in it, when discussing the period after the fall of the Soviet Union he states that "The price at which enterprises were sold…
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