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There is no consistent ideology. There is only grift, and rage against anyone that they think wronged them. Okay, there is ideology. But it's a bunch of differ
by fabian2k 1y ago
There is no consistent ideology. There is only grift, and rage against anyone that they think wronged them.
Okay, there is ideology. But it's a bunch of different people with very different ideologies and goals.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoAh, the Soviet model of governance
- ModernMech 1y agoRight, this is what's so amazing to me. The American conservative party spent the last 30 years taking a victory lap over the fall of the USSR, extolling the evils of socialism wherever they could, only to run in the opposite direction so hard, they ended up proving horseshoe theory by emulating everything that made the Soviets government dysfunctional.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoThe way I see this is in terms of attractors (in the sense of dynamics). The dynamics are characterized mostly by institutions and rules rather than ideology. The idea of liberalism was to get the institutions correct and so create a stable democracy. If you destroy the institutions then the ideology behind why you did it doesn't matter. Just like it doesn't matter why you remove a load bearing wall in a building. You're at the mercy of primate emotions and everything tends toward oligarchy. That was just as true in the Soviet Union as in countless other countries throughout history. Oligarchy is an attractor, and you need careful planning to avoid the whirlpool.