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That's unironically petty bourgeois/PMC brainworms that eventually at least partially caused the counterrevolutions of 1989.
Sure, you had access to a new Škoda 742 in five years, had the possibility to go to Bulgaria or Yugoslavia on vacation in the summer, and buy Belarusian fridges that will work for decades to come. (and
But the young and other oppositionists wanted a BMW, go to Vacation to the swiss Alps and buy American appliances instead, and admittedly, some of them did get that.
Those that didn't though, and didn't live in countries whose economies were flooded by low quality goods from the west (either used or just shitty) like Poland, were shit out of luck and also hit by different problems like the return of organized crime, and compared to other eastern europeans who nowadays just lick boot, often would not mind having back the benefits of socialism, but are often too high on the opium of nationalism and religion or embrace social democracy out of fear of the return of aggressive imperialism.
The more I read about the eastern bloc, the more I realize how much the petite bourgeoisie and labor aristocrats (or more specifically, the people who thought they would be in the labor aristocracy under capitalism) were instrumental in destroying things.
Well, Trotsky/Bukharin (on the end of the class struggle in the USSR) and the Corn Man ("State of all the people" instead of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat) were certainly wrong on this.
That's unironically petty bourgeois/PMC brainworms that eventually at least partially caused the counterrevolutions of 1989.
Sure, you had access to a new Škoda 742 in five years, had the possibility to go to Bulgaria or Yugoslavia on vacation in the summer, and buy Belarusian fridges that will work for decades to come. (and
But the young and other oppositionists wanted a BMW, go to Vacation to the swiss Alps and buy American appliances instead, and admittedly, some of them did get that.
Those that didn't though, and didn't live in countries whose economies were flooded by low quality goods from the west (either used or just shitty) like Poland, were shit out of luck and also hit by different problems like the return of organized crime, and compared to other eastern europeans who nowadays just lick boot, often would not mind having back the benefits of socialism, but are often too high on the opium of nationalism and religion or embrace social democracy out of fear of the return of aggressive imperialism.
The more I read about the eastern bloc, the more I realize how much the petite bourgeoisie and labor aristocrats (or more specifically, the people who thought they would be in the labor aristocracy under capitalism) were instrumental in destroying things.
Well, Trotsky/Bukharin (on the end of the class struggle in the USSR) and the Corn Man ("State of all the people" instead of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat) were certainly wrong on this.