"Go on, call me a tankie, you are only cancelling a lib"

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Why did we start losing so bad after the 90s?"

    -every succ ever

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        We, yes. The succs? Eh, it wasn't until the mid 80s when things really started to go very bad for them too.

    • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Succs died in the 70s lol, and it's because the world became more multipolar and that hurt economic growth. Social democracy was able to thrive because of imperialism.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Maybe in the anglo sphere, they were very prominent in Europe. In some countries they weren't as prominent UNTIL the 70s.

        • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Its really the case that by 75 it was in decline everywhere. If anything it came back in the 90s with the pink tide.

          • Pezevenk [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Back where? In Europe they ate shit. In Latin America yeah, they came back for a while. The big succ governments (Olof Palme, Mitterrand, Papandreou etc) came to be around the late 70s and early 80s. Then the USSR fell and the climate completely changed in favor of neoliberalism.

              • Pezevenk [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Spain also mostly succumbed to neoliberalism years ago. So basically just Latin America, where a lot of these leaders were much more radical than what is considered a succ in Europe.

                • Veegie2600 [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  And we still cant nice things, weak ass SocDem reforms are enough to prompt a coup in LatAm, which sucks.