Grayox to Microblog MemesEnglish • 1 year agoCapitalism is killing our planetlemmy.mlimagemessage-square453fedilinkarrow-up12.4Karrow-down1185
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoI think many of the socialist states of Asia and Eastern Europe are or were ridiculously corrupt. How democratic those were is of course questionable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI meant that it wasn’t really very resistant to corruption.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI’m not sure even that is true. Not sure how you can even really measure that. Or do you mean it could theoretically be?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoWhat do you feel was the reason that the corruption was so high in Eastern European socialist states?
minus-square@dangblinguslinkEnglish2•1 year agoThere was never socialism in Asia or Eastern Europe. At no point have the workers seized the means of production and had a dictatorship of the proletariat.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYou can apply this No True Scotsman logic to capitalism, too. Its biggest fans say True capitalism has never been tried, either.
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I think many of the socialist states of Asia and Eastern Europe are or were ridiculously corrupt. How democratic those were is of course questionable.
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I meant that it wasn’t really very resistant to corruption.
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I’m not sure even that is true. Not sure how you can even really measure that. Or do you mean it could theoretically be?
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What do you feel was the reason that the corruption was so high in Eastern European socialist states?
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There was never socialism in Asia or Eastern Europe. At no point have the workers seized the means of production and had a dictatorship of the proletariat.
You can apply this No True Scotsman logic to capitalism, too. Its biggest fans say True capitalism has never been tried, either.