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matrixmann) wrote2014-05-10 02:48 pm
matrixmann) wrote2014-05-10 02:48 pm
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The C-word
The wider you turn West the more the only association to Communism seems to be the Soviet Union.
Smart mind wonders why since it was not the only country which proclaimed to follow this kind of system. Think of Cuba, think of the GDR, think of Venezuela in these days.
It also appears to happen that people closely link the matter of corruption to the system of Communism, rather than to Russia itself - because it was the way in the Soviet Union.
Further look would tell them that corruption is not a matter of a political system. The cronyism-society of current Western capitalistic system should be a good example to state that it's not filled with fairness too. Also it would tell them that corruption is a well-kept tradition on Russian territory, independently of who is the king now.
For the economy goes the same. It's not all about inefficiency and shortage, about being behind and living on a low standard. If you take the circumstances of the time into consideration, political isolation, economical isolation, putsches in fellow countries and many other aspects, you should get a different picture of the game. Including how the challanging economical circle worked its way out.
Additionally, before mocking take a look at your own system. Do you always get what you want? Do seller and manufacturers always offer you what you need?
What about the quality?
And - where do they take it from?
Considering all these questions makes the accusations and prejudices made to the C-word look less like they're fairly reasonable.
As it seems, it seems to be a question of knowledge. Do you know what you're talking about or do you repeat somebody's words without further investigation.
It's almost 70 years ago, but it seems like the Truman Doctrine still serves its purposes.
Even for those ones who weren't there or even know who he was.
Smart mind wonders why since it was not the only country which proclaimed to follow this kind of system. Think of Cuba, think of the GDR, think of Venezuela in these days.
It also appears to happen that people closely link the matter of corruption to the system of Communism, rather than to Russia itself - because it was the way in the Soviet Union.
Further look would tell them that corruption is not a matter of a political system. The cronyism-society of current Western capitalistic system should be a good example to state that it's not filled with fairness too. Also it would tell them that corruption is a well-kept tradition on Russian territory, independently of who is the king now.
For the economy goes the same. It's not all about inefficiency and shortage, about being behind and living on a low standard. If you take the circumstances of the time into consideration, political isolation, economical isolation, putsches in fellow countries and many other aspects, you should get a different picture of the game. Including how the challanging economical circle worked its way out.
Additionally, before mocking take a look at your own system. Do you always get what you want? Do seller and manufacturers always offer you what you need?
What about the quality?
And - where do they take it from?
Considering all these questions makes the accusations and prejudices made to the C-word look less like they're fairly reasonable.
As it seems, it seems to be a question of knowledge. Do you know what you're talking about or do you repeat somebody's words without further investigation.
It's almost 70 years ago, but it seems like the Truman Doctrine still serves its purposes.
Even for those ones who weren't there or even know who he was.
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Why Communism MUST FAIL
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Hearing Americans speak about that topic simplistic as they do, I see myself like being confronted with the blind propaganda of the last seven decades.
You could guess that mankind has come already farer than that.
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(Anonymous) 2014-06-03 03:48 am (UTC)(link)This current economic system of greed is unsustainable.
Any plan that the 1% can take care of themselves and everyone else can go to hell will not end well.
Utter Blindness to One's True Self Interest
Right now the American Right wing really believe that they are going to be rewarded for their blind devotion to their owners.
It should be clear enough by now that the 1% are nothing more than criminals who will promote their good at the expense of everyone else.
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I thought it seems like the propaganda even of decades ago still has its impact on American culture, American thinking.
It's devastating.
You'd guess that mankind has already come farer than believing in what they set up almost a century (!) ago. And it wasn't even correct in that time as this propaganda was released to the world.
Well, but talking America, for sure - I remember, there are still enough who believe in what's been set up more than a hundred years ago. And these are not only from the class of the highest circles. These are also from the ground.
For whatever reason they still believe in that - what the US definitely needs is insight into other cultures, others than from their continent, so that they get to see another model how society can be run and it doesn't go down.
I assume that's what they're lacking of and why things still run as they run.
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Watching every "crisis" or "war" that the US has been joining over the last couple of years, you get the impression like the end is so near you can already feel it.
For sure no one wanted to hear "it's going down!" before the Soviet Union fell, perhaps most citizens and even politicians didn't even think of that. But - history tells how the story ended (until now).
Without any trial of insult, but that behaviour somehow rings a bell.
And it seems like there are people on that side now again which don't want to hear "it's going down!".
Expanding My Horizons
I find most Germans to be really circumspect about politics especially when it comes to their political beliefs.
There is a lot of interesting stuff in your journal. I am looking forward to reading more.
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I find that most of them are not aware of how things concretely work at all in their country. They're just downright helpless.
But that's nothing typically of being German; you sure are going to find that the majority of citizens in other countries are the same.
It would be helpful to understand my first language.
I write a lot of more specific stuff about German processes in my native tongue.
Just saying.