Why (Warum)

[matrixmann]

Überall brennt der Baum, regiert die Unzufriedenheit und jeder wünscht sich, dass die Welt anders läuft als sie's aktuell tut...
Aber warum, trotz all der Unerträglichkeiten, läuft alles ungebremst weiter wie bisher?
Die Wahrheit ist: Es gibt kein Alternativsystem mehr. Es gibt keine Idee für eine alternative Ordnung mehr, die funktionieren würde und nicht das Leben für die meisten ins Chaos stürzt.
Yep, das ist der Grund.

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Everywhere turmoil pops up, discontent reigns and everybody wishes the world to work differently than it currently does...
But why everything keeps on going on without brakes as before, despite all the intolerablenesses?
The truth is: There is no alternative system anymore. There is no idea of an alternative order around anymore which could function properly and wouldn't throw life for most people into chaos.
Yep, that's the reason.

Comments

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"In times where capitalism had a competitor system, even this deeply cutthroat system had to sacrifice a few crumbs of the cake in order to keep its people pleased and from running to the other system."

I don't know... I'd lived at USSR times and I am still living now and yes there are some differences but they are not critical... Actually, I don't know maybe I have only one child but I don't feel as poor in Russia or as a man which has no perspectives to develop, to earn whatever money I like. Instead I feel that nowadays I have much perspectives to do everything I want - I can build whatever I want ( if it will be save of course), I could travel where ever I want, start a business, buy land... Nobody is pushing me to spend my life to work for some other rich guy dreams, some like some work but I am working for myself. So I don’t know what is so wrong about capitalism you are telling now, I think I have to visit Germany or France myself to get a clue...

[matrixmann]

Well...
I will admit that I'm very much aware of that fact that politics at the very core of the Cold War were different than in its periphery.
Things were very, VERY much more fiercely fought about.
You see... it's the "little" strip of land where two opposing blocks of nuclear missiles stared at each other.

So... when you're at the heart of real socialism looking at you and looking back at it, people are much more likely to take notice of what the other side offers. This creates a situation of "make the hell sure you offer your own people something, so they don't walk over the border and never return again!".
Western propaganda about wealth (which also came at the cost of all the other nations in Europe under the American thumb) lured a lot of people to West Germany and created a lot of myths, of GDR being a failed state and such things...
But, just guess, would that have been possible if you already lived in that West Germany of these days? Where social benefits, health insurance and the school system had been deteriorated over decades? Where hospitals and smaller courts had been closed? Where huge administraive districts have been created that move state services far away from your reach?
Where you get to feel in many ways "your task as a citizen is not to question our stupid shit, but to obey the laws and do as you're told!"?
With that Germany from these days that West German administration has created, they had hardly ever won the Cold War. I'll claim that for certain.
They needed that bit of social democracy in order to just win a flower pot in that game.
Austerity, bankrupt communities, village fire brigades which have to operate with vehicles left from the socialist times still... That's all not the kind of stuff to demonstrate to someone "we're so fucking rich" or to signalize to him "you're king here in this country as a simple citizen".

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

“But, just guess, would that have been possible if you already lived in that West Germany of these days? Where social benefits, health insurance and the school system had been deteriorated over decades? Where hospitals and smaller courts had been closed? Where huge administraive districts have been created that move state services far away from your reach?”

Again, I wasn’t at any country of EU still to see the differences to Russia. I am living in capitalistic Russia now and it is not bad to compare it to USSR… There were multiple good and bad things at USSR and there are such in modern Russia, the thing is if you are healthy, educated, and not lazy - you would have lived well in both systems – if you are invalid, uneducated, lazy, inflexible, not adventurous, and sick - it is certainly better to live in USSR. I don’t know what is going on in Germany, Greece, or some Eastern Europe small countries – where all old industries built in USSR have gone to history… maybe these countries had lost in common with decomposing of USSR though again, people living at these countries are happy to be free from USSR control and are even threatening us with all the dirty tricks while forced to be licking the boots of Americans soldiers… I don’t know, I couldn’t blame them – nobody like when somebody has taken you freedom telling you what is good and what is bad, even when this somebody would had been talking truth…

[matrixmann]

if you are invalid, uneducated, lazy, inflexible, not adventurous, and sick - it is certainly better to live in USSR

I think this is a good phrase to summarize it.
If you are needy, in some way, if you have to struggle with a couple of factors in your life before making it to actually deal with the question of doing a job for pay, then this system is in a continuous state of telling you "Fuck you!" and "Please die soon!".
Not that I wanna claim that real socialism didn't have such elements too - on my end, I'm pretty much ideologically at war with its Lutheran work morals here. Work 'til you drop isn't a medicine for everything - neither does it harmonize with a planet overpopulated with humans.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"I think this is a good phrase to summarize it.
If you are needy, in some way, if you have to struggle with a couple of factors in your life before making it to actually deal with the question of doing a job for pay, then this system is in a continuous state of telling you "Fuck you!" and "Please die soon!"."

The same here... if you are sick then you are out of game and out of life... nobody will be helping you if not your relatives...
Our free medicine is a myth - the last three months have forced me to see it with all the clarity - a hernia of a friend's brother’s back - 200 thousand rubles or stand in a queue until you die, my cousin’s thyroid cancer prevention procedure is only in the Moscow region and also 200 thousand rubles, my friend’s mother’s broken arm the next day after her dismissal - no payments at work and thirty thousand rubles to doctors for prosthesis, etc.

"Work 'til you drop isn't a medicine for everything - neither does it harmonize with a planet overpopulated with humans."

At early USSR things were very unusual with work too - most of the people were the real slaves without documents and possibility to flee, many were massively dying in camps... so there is no need to idealize USSR here...

[morgenstern74.livejournal.com]

лучше расскажите сколько ваши родоки откусили от ссср чтобы вы шлялись по австралиям, прежде чем лгать наивному немцу от свободах при сраном капитализме. и сколько уничтожено людей чтобы такие как вы опарыши обжирались заграничным дерьмом

[matrixmann]

Civil conversation tone here, okay?

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

Это к чему?