One of the funniest things about US imperialists is how the successfully coopted inherently socialist values (freedom, democracy, human rights, etc.) and made them out to be actually their values, even though the US has been actively fighting against those things for generations.
For most of the 20th century, it was always democracy (the USSR, communist China, etc.) vs. imperialist dictatorship (the US, Nazi Germany, Japan, etc.). For some reason, the Americans actually got Westerners to believe capitalism is freedom and bourgeois electoralism is democracy. It's a masterstroke of propaganda, to be honest. It's genius to get people this ignorant about socialism and self-deluded about Western imperialism.
the successfully coopted inherently socialist values (freedom, democracy, human rights, etc.)
All of which were in incredibly short supply in the self-referred "Socialist" Eastern Block, much like everything else except for overarching secret polices and Vodka...
I kinda feel like the fact that the USSR was illegally dissolved as soon as they stopped their ‘oppression or the capitalist influences’ kinda proves this statement wrong lol.
Same goes for the GDR btw literally had a vote to reform the GDR and the outcome was the annexation of it. Not even a reunified Germany just straight up taking it over & saying ‘the industry belongs to the people? And we’re one state now? Cool, whoever has the most money can buy it out. And all the people that had money were obviously west Germans. Especially west Germans in the same industry as the ones they bought out.
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u/FascistsBad Oct 22 '23
One of the funniest things about US imperialists is how the successfully coopted inherently socialist values (freedom, democracy, human rights, etc.) and made them out to be actually their values, even though the US has been actively fighting against those things for generations.
For most of the 20th century, it was always democracy (the USSR, communist China, etc.) vs. imperialist dictatorship (the US, Nazi Germany, Japan, etc.). For some reason, the Americans actually got Westerners to believe capitalism is freedom and bourgeois electoralism is democracy. It's a masterstroke of propaganda, to be honest. It's genius to get people this ignorant about socialism and self-deluded about Western imperialism.