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Socialism is when government does stuff, and the Russian government kept doing stuff.
Born and raised in a capitalist hellscape, gullible enough to believe all their problems are because of socialism.
if he is from Russia he is full of shit, but if he was born in a satellite state he prolly isn’t outright lying
(e) i didn’t read the crucial “im russian part” :very-smart:
Seriously, no one talks about how reactionary people from former Soviet republics are. I studied with a bunch of people from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and I just don't understand them. I especially remember one girl that was a lib (yes, not a chud), but hated communism and socialism. The most ironic part is that we both currently study and live in China. Many times I wanted to ask her how can her brain deal with the contradiction of loving China, but seeing communist flags, events, and so all over our university campus. Not to mention that in every university degree in China it is obligatory to study communism and pass the subject.
Anyways, why do they tend to be reactionaries? Was life in the former Soviet republics really that bad, or are they just influenced by propaganda?
That's kinda one of the bigger contradictions of AES during a capitalist hegemony. As people get educated for free, they want to leave socialism and make tons of money in capitalist countries.
To them, socialism is the norm. It's just everyday life and they can't actually relate the stories they learn about capitalism to reality. Meanwhile they're being blasted 24/7 with Western propaganda telling them that everyone's rich in capitalist countries. That you can choose between 2 different parties.
She wasn't born in a AES state, she was born in Kyrgyzstan. She isn't Chinese, just loves China, but somehow can't see communism is what made China what it is.
East Germany had a lot of people who were disgruntled that they got no respect but they got no respect because they were stupid and lazy and these are not traits capitalism rewards either
The loyal DPRK defector mentioned that in the interview with Messy News Room Sesh. He said "I left because I was lazy and didn't like that I was holding everyone back" and went on to explain that he felt that was his personal problem and not something to hold against the DPRK.
The phrase that is meant to describe socialism is "from each according to their ability, to each according to their work" so it's not a contradiction that's unknown.
Also "you don't work (when you're able), you don't eat" which is supposedly some evil communist thing, but fuck if that's not exactly what capitalism is with the exception of the bourgeoisie.
they got no respect because they were stupid and lazy and these are not traits capitalism rewards either
I mean, Capitalism rewards entrenching yourself in a bottleneck and sucking as much money out of your neighbors as possible.
You don't need to necessarily be smart or energetic to accomplish this.
It does a bit but you have to be already bourgeoise to do that. You don't go from immigrant with no money to bourgeoise with just laziness and stupidity
Broke immigrants rarely find themselves in a position to gatekeep an economic bottleneck. They are, far more often, the people paying out their asses to get through said bottleneck.
Normalize invoking your great grandparents who lived during the great depression to slam capitalism
