• Asuka@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    True socialism, not just a mixed economy, will invariably be authoritarian. People will never democratically take it that far; history shows this.

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      1 year ago

      History shows us quite the opposite actually. Socialism goes well most of the time whenever the US can’t interfere too much.

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        1 year ago

        That is hilariously untrue. The USSR and PRC are the biggest and worst examples. Every other historically socialist country was generally more bad than good. Yes, there have been some tendencies in socialist countries to e.g. dramatically improve education and literacy, but generally at the cost of the people’s political liberties, the government taking political prisoners, mass killings, speech being censored, etc.

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          1 year ago

          key phrase being “whenever the US can’t interfere too much”

          investigate that correlation because its enlightening.