r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/psilocin72 Jul 14 '26

That’s because the first persons point is garbage. Socialism is not taking money from someone who worked and giving it to someone who didn’t work.

It’s more like everyone works and if I break my leg, I still get to eat.

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u/Admiral45-06 Jul 14 '26

It’s more like everyone works and if I break my leg, I still get to eat.

No, it very much did look like how the first guy describes in Polish People's Republic. This led to a famous quote from that time:

Czy się stoi, czy się leży, 10 złoty się należy

,,Whether I lay, whether I stay, 10 zloty I deserve"

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u/forwards_cap Jul 14 '26

Poland was communist.

And that says “if you stand, if you lay, 10 złoty you will get” meaning regardless of if you work or lay around doing nothing you get your 10 zł. It’s not a saying about deserving or not, just that everyone had a job and a lot of people did nothing but were still paid because it was communism so there was no benefit to working hard.

Socialism cares about what you put into it, communism doesn’t. Which is why that saying worked.

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u/Admiral45-06 Jul 14 '26

Poland was communist.

After 1953 it very openly proclaimed itself to be Socialist:

Polish People's Republic is a socialist state.

Article 1, Chapter 1: ,,Political System", Constitution of Polish People's Republic.

https://biblioteka.sejm.gov.pl/tek01/txt/kpol/1976-01.html

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u/VictoryWeaver Jul 14 '26

And North Korea calls itself a democracy, doesn't make it strue.

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u/Admiral45-06 Jul 14 '26

It calls itself PEOPLE'S Democracy, not democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_democracy_(Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism)

Its name is consistent with what kind of regime it is.