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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Very silly to call a publicly owned and planned economy where the Working Class was in power "neoliberal." Words have meaning because people need to communicate, just calling everything random names doesn't help that.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It wasn't publicly owned. That requires democracy. The people didn't own the government, and the government owned the means of production, so the people didn't own them. The government was a private entity.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago
  1. The Soviet Union was democratic. They had a structure called Soviet Democracy, elaborated on in Soviet Democracy, written by Pat Sloan. It looked like this in practice:

  1. The people participated in and owned the government.

  2. The government was not a "private entity," that's deeply silly.

Even if all of what drag said was true, it still would not be neoliberal, itself an ideology surrounding privatization and international Capitalism. drag has been explained all of this before, though, drag is just a Nazi-defending troll, so drag doesn't actually care.