There we go, you're just a stemlord with a superiority complex. "Go study robotics" as if a society with 100% robotics students was sustainable. For your information I have a fucking PhD in Physics and a privileged as fuck life, but I choose not to be a cunt to the people less fortunate around me.
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Stasi did not execute people in broad daylight. Comparing the Stasi (intelligence services of Socialist Germany) to the Gestapo (agency instrumental to millions of exterminations in genocide) is insulting.
but people born in socialism want (balanced, not late stage) capitalism
False. A majority of people who lived in the Eastern Block (except for a few countries like Baltics or Poland) say that life was better during socialism, every poll that comes out confirms this. The people who are so afraid of socialism are the 90s kids who have been indoctrinated in the "horrors of gommunism" while completely ignoring the very real horrors of capitalism.
The house is given to you wherever the government wants you to work
Again lying. Work mobility was very much a thing in the Eastern Block except during exceptional times such as WW2. Housing in the USSR was actually primarily accessed through your work union, not through the government, so it was up to you where you wanted to work and therefore live. Nowadays people don't have that luxury, and instead of living near our workplaces, we're segregated by income. I literally cannot afford to live in my hometown where I grew up because it got gentrified, it is actually capitalism not letting people live where they desire. I've also lived in a smaller village, and many people are forced out of there by the economic situation of not being able to find any job because capitalism moves all jobs to the big city. Are you purposefully lying, or just misinformed?
Like China, Half of capitalistic EU, and North Korea?
So, like a socialist country, a bunch of countries imitating socialist urban design, and another socialist country? Nothing to do with political spectrum? If you think urban sprawl is not political, I suggest you research on why it was racism and segregation by skin colour that led to dystopian sprawl in American cities. Or is that not ideological to you?
Well, just because there is a one country that managed to screw it up, does not mean it cannot be part of capitalism. See: Rest of the world
What rest of the world? How's the quality of universal healthcare and education in India, in Phillipines, in Morocco or in Ecuador? I'm a Spaniard, and I can guarantee you that, for the entirety of my adult life, the only policy I've seen towards healthcare and education is austerity and defunding through neoliberalism. This is the case in the entirety of Europe, and when some party comes with intentions of changing that, either it's internally demolished (state apparatus fabrications of corruption and funding by Venezuela and Iran in the case of Podemos, Spain), not allowed into government by the establishment (LFI, France), or directly shutdown under theat of explusion of the Euro (Syriza, Greece). What a wonderful paradise of healthcare and education.
Depends on how you look at it. I’m sure there is zero unemployment rates in concentration camps too
I have no idea what you're talking about. Again, most people who lived in the Eastern Block socialism say that life was better then. Why are you so hurt by people having a right to retirement pensions, worker rights, extremely high unionization rates, and guaranteed employment?
Turns on US news
What's your point? That Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin? I wish for that alternate reality too, especially one without the USA existing.
Saying this two days after Michael Parenti's death is really something
Straight avenue is not necessarily a bad thing though, if they're high-density, walkable, full of services and green spaces, and interconnected with public transit, as they were.
The police in your country are fascist pigs too. They routinely beat up pro-palestinian protestors without consequence, it's just that your state outsources the violence to Israel by supporting the genocide of Palestinians. The German regime is currently suggesting compulsory military service, funding literal Nazi arms manufacturers like Rheinmetall, and actively silencing dissenting journalists by removing their bank accounts and prosecuting anyone who hires them or donates money to them. Moreover, there is rampant far-right activity and nothing is done about it. I used to live in Germany up to a few years ago, and one time I celebrated my birthday at home and my friends couldn't make it in time because a Nazi parade was blocking the trams.
How about we talk of the regime actively suppressing the people's democratic will, like when people have a referendum to cap rents in Berlin but the supreme court rejects it (Mietendeckel)? How about the same happening with the referendum to expropriate housing that passed in 2021 and nothing has come of it yet?
Well, the Soviets and China never stopped building socially affordable housing. Turns out it's a quirk of capitalist regimes leaving people to spend half their income in housing!
Since the Soviet Union pretended that homelessness didn't exist
Ugh... Anticommunist propaganda. Vagrancy was considered illegal, and "homeless" people had access to free dorms. Your figures are entirely made up
The Soviet Union did not collapse in the 90s, it was illegally dissolved against the democratic will of the people. The country was doing absolutely golden until perestroika (look at any GDP graph if you don't believe me), they had some economic issues due to it between 1985 and 1990 but nothing horrible. What was horrifying was the transition to capitalism. Alcohol abuse, crime, homelessness, unemployment, suicide and drugs became the norm when the entire welfare system was dismantled and the state industry was auctioned to the most corrupt bidder.
Social issues spawned in the 90s during capitalism and do not represent the life in the USSR.
Believe it or not, guaranteed housing at an average rent of 3% of the monthly income is an extremely leftist policy.
Keep supporting the most complicit state in Europe in the genocide of Palestinian people.