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minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months 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-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoI meant that it wasn’t really very resistant to corruption.
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minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months 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-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoWhat do you feel was the reason that the corruption was so high in Eastern European socialist states?
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI don’t think it’s corrupt vs non-corrupt but about the level of corruption
minus-squaredangblingus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·8 months 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-squarerchive@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoYou can apply this No True Scotsman logic to capitalism, too. Its biggest fans say True capitalism has never been tried, either.
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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I don’t think it’s corrupt vs non-corrupt but about the level of corruption
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.