Let's say I'm a Baker in East Germany or Soviet Union. I want to open a bakery and sell bread. How does one go about setting up that business and operating it? How does the Marxist system tie in with me having to possibly hire employees or take out a loan to buy the stuff needed to setup the bakery? What was the process and bureaucracy like?
You don't. Why would you make the assumption that you could? There are no private businesses and no private production.
There existed private businesses and private production in DDR / SSSR. This was not Misc Pot's Cambodia.
It's just that these businesses had to bribe the local commissars to survive. The proles took ration-cards and got their ration - as was their right, as citizens. The ration was shit. The real food was sold on the black-market and the commissars wet their beaks not to stop that practice.
Becoming a manager of a state-run bakery is your best bet, and then operating a black market store on the side as points out.
Perhaps you could make your black market business legitimate if it's post-Perestroika/Glasnost USSR in the late 80s? Probably still need bribe money.
Depending on the time period you can work as an artisan but not allowed to hire anyone/there are extensive regulations you have to follow
"2nd economy" appeared in the 70s-80s and was overrated: the black market in for example Russia was smaller than today
Good way to get arrested unless you are doing this under Brezhnev or Gorby, wouldn't fly in DDR
The bread gets made in a bakery, anon
There were a frickton more bakeries than today and they were state run, prepackaged shelf stable bread was much rarer, amd fresh bread was cheap and abundant
Youd have to wait in a long line to buy it though since a lot of the time everyone went to buy all at once after work and often most of the residents of the neighbourhood worked in the same factory
I like how your idea of "individual initiative" is taking out a frickton of loans and starting muh small buisness that will most likely fail and leave you in debt for the rest of your life
Individual initiative like doing well at yoir job or inventing something would get you a medal, cash prizes, promotions, vacation vouchers or even being a minor celebrity
White "people" communism lost.
What is this even supposed to mean?
It's pretty self explanatory.
You have no fricking idea what you're talking about, westie zoomer. Just shut the frick up. Nobody had "ration cards" apart from extraordinary periods of crisis, for example for a few months right after the 1956 uprising in Hungary. You'd get a salary and you'd buy shit in the store.
How the frick does the bread get made then? It's not like the KGB would go around shooting village bakers, surely?
In East Germany they probably wouldn't shoot them, but it would be illegal.
You underestimate the moronic shit commies will do
The state-owned bakery
That was true in the Soviet Union, but East Germany did allow some small private businesses.
This is a terrible reply and destroyed the entire thread.
There's no individual initiative under socialism. The state owns everything. You have to wait until the planning board decides to build a bakery then you apply to be a baker on the government's payroll.
>How does one go about setting up that business and operating it?
You realize that the Warsaw Pact was COMMUNIST right? They were completely opposed to private business.
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living standards in order from best to worst
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Bulgaria
USSR
Romania
USSR should be broken up into the individual republics. Life in the Russian SFSR or Latvian SSR for example was probably much better than Bulgaria but and the same time the Uzbek SSR would be literal third world living standards.
Where do Yugoslavia and Albania rank