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So communist democracy is the solution?

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What is the context of the phrase “Heil Hitler” now? Context is everything and you can’t just point at the history books and twist the meaning of what someone said.

Languages change and morph over time. They always have.

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why is democracy the goal? democratic nations have pretty much universally profited from the plunder and destruction of poor nations.

the british empire, the french empire, the german empire, the american empire. democracy is a tool of imperialism and colonialism. when those avenues for extracting wealth fail, what’s left? increasing concentration of power and wealth to the rich, privatization of public goods, right-wing extremism, and societal stagnation through a return to conservative values.

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seizing their assets will

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The real boost is SOEs. Competition is good, it just needs a single large-scale player more concerned about the public good than private profits to push the industry in the right direction. There’s a reason SWCC works so well while the Soviet system failed. Deng Xiaoping was a genius.

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why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn’t the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?

in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn’t more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?

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communist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified

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$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that’s the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.

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