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I would say my experience is not an anecdote since it was shared by thousands but don’t let my people’s experience dissuade you from the ideas in your head that you developed while living in a shithole like the U.S
The vast majority of people who lived in the USSR regret the fall of socialism. I can find a thousand people who think the US Empire is the most morally just country in history that truly provides for its people, but genuinely studying history, statistics, and the mechanisms of political economy domestically and globally point to that being a fantasy.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have any reason to take a random internet stranger's anecdote any more seriously than the large amount of reading I've done on Marxism, anarchism, history, and political economy in general.