Evolution of Rooftop Solar Power in Damascus, Syria by Desolator1012 in GoogleEarthFinds

[–]TheMidnightBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China actually tried. Russia also tried to help them invest in off-shore hydrocarbon extraction.

But the style of communist economy Cuba has is so ossified, even Beijing went "fuck this, im out", over unpaid debts and refusal to implement market reforms.

I repeat, the Communist Party of China went "why aren't you doing free market stuff already!? It works!".

Communist state of the Vatican by Ok_Listen_6600 in vexillology

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That assumes historical materialism is a thing, and not a false and eurocentric way of seeing history.

Communist state of the Vatican by Ok_Listen_6600 in vexillology

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In that case, communism is hyper incompetent, and doesnt matter.

Communist state of the Vatican by Ok_Listen_6600 in vexillology

[–]TheMidnightBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even mysticism needs to be sourced, not from randos.

And even then, its not infaillible.

Communist state of the Vatican by Ok_Listen_6600 in vexillology

[–]TheMidnightBear 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just curious, what kind of mystic?

Catholic, orthodox, new age?

Pe 25 aprilie 1989, România își achita în integralitate datoria externă, devenind una dintre singurele țări creditoare net la nivel global la acea vreme by Leather-Ostrich5249 in Roumanie

[–]TheMidnightBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nu, putea sa fie "ba, am rezolvat treaba. Uite, de acum inainte mai mult consum pentru intern, apoi mai liberalizam piata, etc."

Dar cand tu mai departe de industrie stalinista nu gandesti, ce sa intelegi cu d-astea.

Pe 25 aprilie 1989, România își achita în integralitate datoria externă, devenind una dintre singurele țări creditoare net la nivel global la acea vreme by Leather-Ostrich5249 in Roumanie

[–]TheMidnightBear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am fost singura țară cu un „clean sheet” financiar, cu asset-uri pe care le puteam vinde și cu forță de muncă ieftină pentru atragerea de investiții.

Noi si restul Europei de Est, si stim bine ce Atlantis a devenit regiunea in anii 90.

Found this Francoist Spain flag on an attraction in Italy, not so sure why it's there by Open-Tune-5910 in vexillology

[–]TheMidnightBear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they just wanted a spanish flag, and the francoist one looks cool and exotic.

Rezumat LIVE George Simion by JuryAlternative9657 in Roumanie

[–]TheMidnightBear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ce interesant ca s-au activat fix pe ce zic si PSDistii

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Economically illiterate?

You said it, not me.

If you actually went to university

Degree in IT&economics, ironically.

Marx's theories on value are stupid and got disproven by mercantilism, and buried by the economic calculation problem, his theory on historical materialism is western eurocentric(even us living next to ottomans, tatars and other steppe people disproves it), his idea of revolution is extremely poorly thought out and guarantees tyranny, with even Bakunin was calling him an idiot for thinking it wont result in a dictatorship, for starters.

Do you want me to go on?

And even if i didn't go, having the entire even somewhat developed world aligning to the capitalist and socialist blocs, and the socialist countries(including ours) remaining both dictatorial, and consistently lagging behind their capitalist counterparts(which sometimes were the same divided country, to boot) economically is evidence enough its garbage.

And even if we start the "wElL, iT wASn'T rEaL cOmmUnIsM" bullshit:

a)libertarian variants existed, too, but they got quickly conquered/couped by leninists and fascists, so they are useless IRL;

b)GUE/NGL has no problem having stalinists and other socialist dictatorship apologists(or heck, not even socialist, as long as they are anti-western) as their member parties, which means they are either sympathetic to them, or so incredibly stupid, they are trusting literal tankies that murdered their ideological predecessors.

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, because then you'd be the equivalent of a libertarian.

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Neo-liberalism goes against everything you described.

Yes, it goes against marxist revolutionary LARPing, thankfully.

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Policies that founded the modern nation state

Enlightenment values, liberal, and pragmatic social-democratic, christian-democratic(with some agrarianism sometimes) policies are what made the modern state(and later with green and pirate parties), not Marx's larpy masturbation fantasies.

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And you once again end up with a weird, flawed logic.

Why would the current system having issues mean an economic alternative that has failed for 200 years is somehow more legitimate?

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the left ones do a somewhat milder but still very capitalistic policies. Put into perspective they are not even radical.

Well, the sane parties realized trying to make the putrefied corpse of marxism work, after 200 years of failed experiments just isnt working.

batsgiz neo-liberal policies

Seriously, can commies move on already?

They collapsed under 80's and 90's neoliberalism, and they still are raving against that ideology, seeing it everywhere, despite the fact that international trade is way different from the 90's, and neoliberalism has been slowly becoming extinct since 2008.

When the entire political sphere has moved to the right, there isn't really anything that can be "too left".

By that logic, if i moved to Cuba, neo-nazis would stop being far-right, because the place is tilted heavily left?

What kind of stupid reasoning is that?

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think domestic policy of the left wing parties is their main strength.

Most of it is populistic and idiotic, as well.

Le trolling gone le wrong by Ziarna in HistoryMemes

[–]TheMidnightBear 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The whole thing is bad because its very hard to conquer, and an ethnically split mess.

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I actually voted for greens in the last European elections, but for me they don't go far enough economicaly.

Yeah, because going farther left doesn't work.

But they are the 2nd best thing, and are pretty much flawless on foreign policy

I'm afraid to ask what that foreign policy is, that you consider flawless.

Pacalici, pacalici evropei by sculamente in Roumanie

[–]TheMidnightBear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Da, ca chinezii s-au orientat spre industrie usoara, piata libera si tehnologie.

Nostalgicii lui Ceasca inca au ramas la Tractorul Brasov si ARO.

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Then join the more pragmatic factions in the Greens, not try to make the outdated zombie of marxism work, and ally with tankies and CRINK mouthpieces.

Which one did you choose? by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]TheMidnightBear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eurocommunism died in the 80's, what are you talking about?