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Isn't this what the Soviet Union tried to do?

• talldayo 2y ago
  It was one of the goals, specifically in the form of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that prevents non-working social classes from engaging in politics. That would later evolve into a "state of the whole people" once it was perceived that class struggle had been eliminated. If you look at how Russia failed to modernize as a republic though, you could argue the current oligarchy is significantly more dangerous for the state and it's people. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia started migrating to a free market economy, the government deeply subsidized entrepreneurs in an attempt to stimulate their economy into competition. It would end up being one of the major contributing factors of their economic collapse, and persists today as a toxic link between business and politics that should have never been forged in the first place. Russian oligarchs put out mob hits on polticians - politicians send secret police to kill their opposition. It's about as potent an example of political corruption that exists in a so-called "democracy" today. I feel like you can see very clear echoes of this in America's modern economic strategy, the same sort of hubris from both Democrats and Republicans. America thought it would be smart to subsidize Elon Musk for sub-$25,000 cars he had no intention of ever making. Meanwhile, Elon is meeting with foreign dignitaries and shipping American jobs abroad to save his company instead of delivering on his promises. Elon must rather envy the violence and lawlessness of Russian economics.