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Open original source ↗And now they don’t even want the prosperity part.
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These are the quoted author’s words.
If you read Soviets from ~1920, it's clear they *actually literally expected* communism to organically supplant capitalism worldwide, yielding unimaginable prosperity. Soviets from ~1970 echoed the formulas but clearly didn't expect a communist triumph in the real world.
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