i've said it before but 196 is full of the most annoying vaushite teenagers with their fingers in their ears and it is incredibly important that you do anything more productive with your time than frequent their meme reposting subreddit
helped start NATO so we won't have another world war
military alliances, famous for never having caused large-scale conflicts :agony-soviet:
To be fair the nazis probably learned it from either the British or the Americans, so it's more of a vicious cycle
Ah yes, starting from the waning world imperial power vs starting from a near-feudal regional power with widespread poverty. Very comparable, good logic :reddit-logo:.
Incidentally, one saved the other from the Nazis in this time period. You'll never guess which one!
One of them also sent troops to Greece, Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea to prevent actual Communists from taking power. Attlee also did all he could to crush the Iranian workers movement, and even considered directly invading the country to seize refineries after Mosaddegh nationalized the oil sector (being stopped only because the US said no).
But which of the two gets called a Tankie?
How the fuck do you learn about the first world war, hear about the interlocking system of treaties that precipitated the involvement of countries in that world war, and then decide "hell yeah that worked at preventing war, let's do another".
How do they rationalize NATOs first chief of staff being a former SS officer?
Full employment*
* For former members of the National Socialist German Workers Party
full employment
:doubt: to my knowledge no socdem goverment has done this
unless "2% unemployment" is what they mean by full employment
Full employment is fundamentally impossible under the neoliberal paradigm and is generally disastrous for capital
We came close to achieving it in the 70’s, which led to the capital strikes which jump started neoliberalism
Lmao. Imagine calling yourself a social Democrat knowing fully well that "Nordic socialist" nations are the way they are through exploitation of the 3rd world.
What was africa and india doing during that time? Also almost as if britain built means of production a century beforehand
Kay, but the USSR managed to guarantee jobs for its whole history and made it a right in their constitution (based Stalin constitution)... the UK couldn't even manage until the 80s.
Oh yeah, I worded that wrong, oops. I meant they maintained full employment until the 80s, lol.
Yo, how many famines did the Brits cause in other countries again?
“Hey look you tankies and orientals, we have a fancy welfare state cuz we sucked off all the world’s wealth and now we get to print magic money to pay for our debt!”
