The fact that committed liberals and supporters of capital rose to power within a government and party ostensibly in the business of advancing a communist project is an indictment of it in my eyes. It makes sense that it was the leaders of industrial projects who stood to gain from their privatisation, but it isn't great that the architects of the plundering of Russia and the other post soviet states had risen to leadership positions with the communist party, within soviet academia, or gotten posts in the supreme soviet
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There's a very piercing criticism of soviet nostalgia buried in the fact that so many of the people who would rip the union to shreds were in positions to do so before the Soviet Union fell. That criticism doesn't extend to "Putins ancestors were alive in Russia at the same time as Lenin"
It's kinda messed up when you think about it that the current ruling party in Italy is more or less a direct successor to the fascist party, like right down to stealing the logo of the Italian social movement (A movement the current prime minister was part of, a movement which openly proclaimed its fascism), and yet they get to call themselves centre right etc, a designation that the press run with and respect. The term "far right" and to an extent even "right wing" exists solely as a designator for things not in power.
ALL THE LOCAL BUSINESS OWNERS VOTED TRUMP
He's really bad at that though. Like anyone can say "It's probably sarcoidosis/ms/paraneoplastic syndrome :)" and be wrong.
That's better than what i said.
It really is. I feel so owned.
I just said I wouldn't have gone to south Africa either, but I don't she noticed.
Israeli girl said I would fit in really well in Israel and asked if I ever planned on going there. :( I don't know how to not be nice, and I just want to get along until this is done but also :(
It's basically baccarat but you get a hand.
This is very obviously AI slop
Just so.
Edit: That the deputy director of some oil company made money off its privatisation is not inherently shocking, but that the guy who oversaw its privatisation was a high ranking and long time member of the communist party and government says something about the nature of that party and government.