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When I lived in a communist country I did not pay any tax at all...
Or should I say State Socialist, as it was not a democratic state as envisaged by Marx etc...
But people did not live without rights or a say in there lives...
The institution where I was had meeting called by the Communist Party to discuss how it ran and people said what they thought.
The ruling party was open for all to join, if you wanted a political career. True only one party, but Britain and US are pretty much the same two or three capitalist parties.
It had full employment, housing for all, free education, health service, and culture for all, it had culture, films and theatre from all over the world. A much more open society than the UK or the US. Hell here in the UK we don't even see French culture.
But the the lack of freedom and democracy - and the hostile west, and the revolutionary approach of capitalism to production, won out...
I look to the US for the next attempt at a socialist revolution, I think it may just work there
But I still remember those days as 5 years when I did not worry about money ...
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