This is actually the argument in Parenti's Reds and Blackshirts about why the Eastern bloc collapsed. They basically didn't believe their own propoganda about how bad capitalism was and were like "but I want a Nintendo" and now they're all just "wow ok fuck this is way worse than we thought."
The enthusiastic switch to a free market system made the :ancap-good: go from every 3rd adult on the streets supporting them to having a fourth of the votes that the once hated (sadly formerly) communist party had in just four years lol
This is actually the argument in Parenti's Reds and Blackshirts about why the Eastern bloc collapsed. They basically didn't believe their own propoganda about how bad capitalism was and were like "but I want a Nintendo" and now they're all just "wow ok fuck this is way worse than we thought."
My partner got me a copy of that book for the holidays and I'm so excited to finally read it
Halle an der Saale (Saxony-Anhalt - former GDR)
Elections Result:
December 1990 - 34,1% FDP (Libertarian), 24% CDU (Conservative), 19,5% SPD (Socdem), 13,4% PDS (Formerly Communist, Gorbachevite), 7,0% Greens (Libs)
October 1994 - 33,3% CDU, 30,5% SPD, 23,5% PDS, 6,2% FDP, Greens 4,3%
The enthusiastic switch to a free market system made the :ancap-good: go from every 3rd adult on the streets supporting them to having a fourth of the votes that the once hated (sadly formerly) communist party had in just four years lol