Re:Putin’s last stand How to lose a war simply by starting one
by throwaway290 on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:36AM
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I believe there is no example of a socialist country that is not also a de-facto dictatorship, and I believe if there is a rule by a minority with no democratic election process then it is indeed unfair.
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Re:Putin’s last stand How to lose a war simply by starting one
by orwin on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:18AM
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The nordic countries are though? I'd say i would consider any country were the state expenditure account for more than 50% of GDP socialist. And any company where the workers own more than 50% of the share communist (those exist). Unless we have different definition?
Edit: I'm not opposing socialism to capitalism though. For me capitalism is that the capital own the means of production, aka: more than 50% of the shares belong to investors, not workers.
Re:Putin’s last stand How to lose a war simply by starting one
by throwaway290 on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:33PM
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Yes, we have different definitions. I meant capitalism in the most layperson's definition: a system where you sell something and I buy something from you, then you take that money and go to the milkman and buy yourself cheese. As opposed to a system where people work for some fixed minority, and then that fixed minority distributes the outcome across everybody. (Of course, keeping the bigger chunk to itself.)
Re:Putin’s last stand How to lose a war simply by starting one
by frostwarrior on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:53AM
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Of course. Thing is, considering all socialist countries that transitioned to democracy, how many of them became fairer and with less corruption?
Re:Putin’s last stand How to lose a war simply by starting one
by throwaway290 on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:30PM
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idk… the entirety of ex-USSR except one or two countries?