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> this system was based on institutionalized, merciless bullying No bullying exist in the US and EU schools, sure.
by zx8080 4y ago
> this system was based on institutionalized, merciless bullying
No bullying exist in the US and EU schools, sure.
- ch4s3 4y agoI think the previous poster is saying that the state was doing the bullying, which is characteristically different.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoRight, if people can't elect their leaders, then the leaders must stay in power by other means, such as bullying. Seems rather intuitive to me. Another way of thinking about it is imagine if the bullies got in power and took over the whole state. What kind of state would it be? One without free elections no doubt
- ch4s3 4y agoYeah certain models of governance tend towards bullying.
- feet 4y agoCapitalistic governments love to bully poor people
- ch4s3 4y agoI'm not sure any governments are "capitalistic" per se, though many embrace markets to varying extents. As the sibling comment points out there Nordics are all VERY market oriented (more-so than the US/Anglospehere) and have strong welfare states. As for the US it varies a lot state by state, and most of the really egregious shit is done by municipal governments. But none of that really matters because the US/West was never carting people off to work camps for something their children let slip in school, which the USSR and GDR did for decades.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoIsn't it also true that in a truly capitalist system the capitalists (meaning people with capital, the rich) would be in power, meaning they could also "buy" the government?
- kspacewalk2 4y agoThere are many different flavours of capitalism. Sweden bullies poor people far less than North Korea or Cuba or Vietnam does, despite being a capitalist society.