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That paper explicitly states this is not the result of "capitalist raping", and it's sad to see such nonsense injected into a paper explicitly stating the oppos
by SideQuark 4y ago
That paper explicitly states this is not the result of "capitalist raping", and it's sad to see such nonsense injected into a paper explicitly stating the opposite. Did you read it or just see a tweet?
"In sum, according to the dysfunctional culture approach, self-destructive health behaviour - in the case of the post-socialist mortality crisis primarily referring to hazardous drinking - is not a result of the radical economic policies adopted during the transition from socialism to capitalism but of a dysfunctional, anomie-laden culture inherited from the socialist past whose effect was made worse by low alcohol prices during the transition"
In short, socialism had for so long ruined the economy that the country imploded, and the transition to a better working capitalism brought about deaths as a result of the wider destruction that caused the implosion.
Deindustrialization is the opposite of capitalism.