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To contrast a bit with other comments, he is very much disliked in eastern Europe. He was always pushing his multipolar worldview and not respecting that the Po
by lajosbacs 2y ago
To contrast a bit with other comments, he is very much disliked in eastern Europe. He was always pushing his multipolar worldview and not respecting that the Poles, Czechs etc. do not want to live under the Soviet/Russian 'pole'.
My personal opinion is that he 1) hates the US 2) hates eastern Europe because it defeated socialism.
I'd love to be proven wrong, but I do not think I will be.
- bantunes 2y ago> My personal opinion is that he 1) hates the US 2) hates eastern Europe because it defeated socialism. He doesn't hate the US. He hates that the US has been captured by warmongering elites and hates its poor. And he'd probably school you on the USSR's state authoritarian capitalism not being a good example of socialism.
- lajosbacs 2y agoWhat would then be a good example of socialism?
- Malcolmlisk 2y agoThe DDR
- IsTom 2y agoIt was so good that to this day there is an economic rift between former west and east Germany.
- iamawacko 2y agoThat economic rift is not the fault of the DDR. 1. The West of Germany, particularly the Rhine, had large amounts of natural resources and much industrial capacity. This was true long before Germany was split. Take the steel production of Germany in 1944, for example. 59% of Steel production was in the West, 18% was in the East, and 16% was in the areas outside of Germany. This is not only more production, but more production per capita. 2. Like most of the former Easter bloc, the privatization of state companies resulted in economic downturn in that region. Especially since many of these state industries were simply closed and cashed out on. Jörg Steinbach, economy minister of Brandenburg, is quoted as saying "Some 70 per cent of East German industry disappeared".
- codr7 2y agoGiven that it's just another -ism, brain farted by some random french aristocrat in the eighteenhundreds-something if I remember correctly, and like all other -isms designed to control the population and steal the profit. All of them? The core ideas are awesome, but then the same could be said of Democracy; any idea force fed from the top is going to have the same kind of shit sandwich quality, the rainbow madness is just the latest example.
- glimshe 2y agoIs there a good example of socialism?
- rswskg 2y agolol, no.
- Malcolmlisk 2y agoThe DDR.
- dgrin91 2y agoEast Germany? Why do you call that a good example of socialism? Post-wall coming down it was mostly East Germans coming to West Germany, less of the reverse. Even today the eastern half of Germany is typically socioeconomically lower on most stats, and a lot of that stems from decades of decisions made in DDR.
- lajosbacs 2y ago* actually deleted my reply, a non-troll cannot say this
- jbaber 2y agoIs this ironic?
- glimshe 2y agoTrue, the Stasi was indeed pretty good at what they did.
- imtringued 2y agoI'm not sure it falls under socialism, but I always enjoy reading about the "Miracle of Wörgl" and Wörgl's mayor Unterguggenberger. There is even a movie about it! https://unterguggenberger.org/the-free-economy-experiment-of-woergl-1932-1933/ https://unterguggenberger.org/the-free-economy-experiment-of...
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