No. We should finally end this myth. It serves nothing but fuel the primitivist bullshit and its derivations from anarcho-whatever and chuds retvrn-to-tradition. We should value progress, just the controlled one instead of capitalist anarchy of production.
First of all, despite different characteristicts and mistakes, yes, they were really socialist, “state capitalism” used in modern context is just a westolefto thought-terminating buzzword to absolve said westolefto from any marxist analysis and instead allowing for brain cooling on an easily available COINTELPRO propaganda.
Second, due to abovementioned characteristics it is a complex subject, even my own Poland would require monumental effortpost to describe even briefly, but 1956, 1968, and then 80’s were in most socialist countries in the region an arena for western regime change efforts and each time some liberalistion was achieved and for example 1968 had tragic consequences in Poland, government allowed to establish prowestern liberal faction, that was loose at beginning but which would ultimately converge with gorbachevists in government and destroy socialism, and it also caused fall of government which was replaced by more liberal “market-socialists” seeking to lend money from the west which also had tragic consequences, even though at first it led to significant speeding of economy.
One mistake here, a socialist system wouldn’t forget how capitalism works.
I’m not so sure, eastern European socialists apparently did forget, taking the US lies of cooperation seriously and invited capitalist culture and finance trojan horses.
Hard to do that in capitalism though.
He just says loudly what all previous administrations wrote in secret memos
Yak
Lmao immediate COINTELPRO take by moldypotato as expected:
Lmao, there’s more of them on Youtube
Similar in Poland. At elementary and middle education level private is massively expensive but also usually better though that is mostly because constant cuts to public education means that regardless of failing birthrates there is always too much kids in class and too much duties for teachers. At those levels there are no pressure about it though, nobody is even asking which school you finished. But at university level state universities are free and much better while having much more competition while private schools are usually much worse.