• @aidan
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    111 months ago

    Czechoslovakia was leaning capitalist and prosperous before the Nazis and then Soviets invaded, both leaning much more leftist, and surpressing the people.

    • @bouh
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      011 months ago

      The nazis are leftists now? That’s basically political illiteracy.

      • @aidan
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        211 months ago

        In my opinion yes, but you’re free to have your own definitions for left and right since historians and economists alike disagree on their definitions too.

        My definitions are basically, leftistism is collective control of the means of production. Rightism is individual control. The left is therefore a much more broas category as collective control can take a ton of different forms.

        • @bouh
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          011 months ago

          Nazis weren’t left even by this definition.

          • @aidan
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            111 months ago

            Yes they were. They were corporatist, and exercised significant control on the economy.

            • @bouh
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              111 months ago

              So you are actually equating a central authority with political left! That is very interesting to see how far the liberal propaganda went to brainwash people.

              • @aidan
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                111 months ago

                I’m equating central planning with leftism yes. Because no one denies a free market is right-wing, so leftism must contradict that.

                • @bouh
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                  111 months ago

                  Political illiteracy by the example.

                  • @aidan
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                    111 months ago

                    Thanks for the explanation 👍

                    I like to think I have a bit of political knowledge seeing as I have watched hours of C-SPAN testimonies from the 90s, but I must just be at the peak of Dunning-Kruger