Glaubt der Chrissi den Schwachsinn von der unsichtbaren Hand des Marktes
So wie Viele die unsichtbare Hand heute auslegen, glaubte nicht mal Adam Smith dran.
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It never meant “The Commission President is now elected directly by the people”.
And that is fine. I am German so as you line out, I don't get to vote for the Chancellor directly either.
But there were two EP elections since the system changed. and in one of them the public vote didn't matter.
That does not make for a good precedent and does not make me believe that it will be different this time.
I mean, for the 2019 election they put forward 2 candidates then we, the European voters, got to vote in the elections for EU parliament, then a third candidate won.
That does not inspire confidence in the Spitzenkandidat system.
True, I didn't find any major publications confirming it. All the articles that do were published on the same day.
I just wanted to provide additional info, which curiously seems to have been disliked by people?
Seven wannabe European Commission chiefs — and one seeking to extend her reign — are going up against each other in the first debate of the EU election campaign.
Who’s going to come out on top? And can anyone beat incumbent Commission President Ursula von der Leyen?
Who cares?
The commission president isn't determined by the EU election but backdoor deals between governments.
It's always good to question unknown sources but Euronews seems to report the same thing:
https://www.euronews.com/2024/04/30/swedish-police-to-investigate-reports-of-information-leaks-to-violent-gangs
“Mao wasn’t a communist in 1953 because his country hadn’t completed its first five year plan yet” is one hell of a claim.
One hell of a straw man, you mean.
At what point have I denied that people are communists?
Mao may be a communist and follow a philosophy called communism but China has not established a social order called communism as envisioned by communists.
A country [...] under a revolutionary socialist government is still communist
I would argue that in a world where the terms are not synonymous, socialist countries are in fact socialist, not communist.
at least in so far as its following the roadmap
Following a roadmap to some target literally means that you have not yet achieved that target.
The argument is not that their are no communists, the argument is that they have not established actual communism, therefore the states they govern are not communist states.
Whether or not they want to establish communism does not factor into it.
To claim otherwise would be akin to claiming that a company on a roadmap to profitability is already profitable, while actually still losing money.
I mean, OP asked specifically why comments don't come from
people that never lived in a communist state
So I addressed the non-existence of communist states.
True, there can be smaller communist societies but I think OP was asking more on a USSR level scale and not 12 hippies living on a farm together.
You’re not going to break the Cuban blockade. You’re not going to settle the endless territorial disputes plaguing Vietnam. You’re not going to undo the legacy of generations of apartheid in South Africa overnight. You’re not going to Make the USSR Great Again.
So maybe save yourself some angst and stop trying to tell Nicholas Maduro and Kim Jung Un how to do their jobs
All these "you"s make me think that you might addressing me personally.
I make no claim to solve anything, nor how anyone should do their job.
I have provided an (incomplete) explanation as to what communism is, why it does not actually exist in practice and why therefore people commenting cannot be from a communist state.
Sorry, germans
Naa, basst scho. Wenns'd as brauchst, I vergunn's da.
Reactionary can be seen as a more extreme version of conservatism.
Conservatives want to keep things as they are and oppose change.
Reactionaries want to turn back to some previous, supposedly better state.