Is this guy cool? Does he have any capacity to spread socialism to Sri Lanka? What's the current state of politics in the country?
IIRC, Sri Lanka has been flipflopping between different presidents and parties over the last few years as the same economic hardship is hitting them as everywhere else, but even the "good" presidents are totally unwilling to resist IMF austerity, and even the most principled and well-intentioned communists just cannot get anything done if they aren't willing to tell the World Bank to fuck off. I'm unsure whether this is a corruption/morality thing or if it's because Sri Lanka genuinely is in such a shitty place that it would be provably worse for them to stop taking loans (i.e. they might be well and truly debt-trapped and only foreign help from China and friends could save them), because Sri Lanka has had such a complex history that I just haven't had the time to look deeply into it with ~200 other countries also taking up my attention span.
They been communist for awhile (ostensibly anyway? Idk cursory search on Wikipedia said since the 70s or so). People used to joke about how everyone always forgets they’re aes bc they never get brought lol
You might be thinking of Nepal.
Sri Lankan politics are messier than you'd believe. I'm not an expert but you have at least one political dynasty, power changing hands between people with 3 different last names for 30 years, a recent civil war along ethnic lines, a failed revolution at the end of the Cold War, a wrecked economy with massive amounts of debt that culminates in the popular uprising 2 years ago that chased out the sitting president and his brother.
I just remember people mentioning them being socialist on one of the subs back in the day (2017 or so) idk much about them outside of that
Nepal is the country that overthrew their monarchy in the 2000s under an alliance of largely MLs and MLMs.
Laos is the country that has been ruled by a ML party since 1975.
Sri Lanka doesn't really have any history in common with either of these in the last century, it's just as far from each as they are from each other. Any political overlapping thread with Nepal was over 100 years ago, and small.
Ah I thought all three had some situation with socialism to one degree or another but right on appreciate it
Oh yeah that’s one that gets over looked a lot for sure but I always remember them bc of king of the hill lol
