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  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.mltoCommunism@lemmy.mlProtestation
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    16 days ago

    Put another way, most communist/socialists wouldn’t be too unhappy if we could copy/paste the living standards of Nordic countries around the world. Problem is you can’t do that since they still rely on exploitation (still ehign capitalist and all). The end result isn’t that far off (in some ways), but it doesn’t scale.



  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHow dare they!
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    17 days ago

    soviets often try to steal all the achievements of the country

    Thing is that the workers in those countries were Soviet as well. Credit goes to the labor regardless of nationality. The softening of national divisions was a great achievement of both the USSR and Yugoslavian socialist governments. It has been disastrous that those institutions weren’t able to prevail until the current day (they should have evolved instead of been abolished, but I don’t know enough to comment much further).

    I don’t agree with the depiction of the USSR as an outside force that developed these countries “for them”. It was an opportunity to come together under one republic and develop.

    I think the meme is attempting to disparage the “ungratefulness” of present day liberals in these FSU countries, but I think it lacks nuance to say the least.




  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHow dare they!
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    17 days ago

    I think the meme is low quality and needlessly provocative (no offense OP I guess), but the answer is likely complex. Once the republics are under the purview of the USSR, the resources and engineerong may well have come from elsewhere in the country, even if the construction crews were primarily local people.

    I don’t know enough about Soviet construction to provide an actual answer, though.






  • Under capitalism, kayaking the time to get to know your neighbors is revolutionary behavior. When things go sideways, the people in direct geographic proximity to you are going to be the ones in best position to support you (and one another). It’s best to start laying that groundwork asap.

    Being involved in wider activism is also a grounding and fulfilling. You don’t need to join a revolutionary socialist party like PSL (but you can if you want to go hard), even joining a park cleanup day or something like that is a good place to be.



  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlLet's update...
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    21 days ago

    For me it was that it said “forcing this upgrade may break your system, do you want to force the upgrade?”

    And I was like “yeah, fuck it”, then installed mint after my system didn’t come back up (it was time for my annual re-install anyway)