What equates leader worship and labor camps with socialism is the common understanding of current liberal youth.

Pauline 2022-04-21 09:01:50

1. It was the Soviet Union that failed, not socialism. Roosevelt's New Deal, the high-welfare society in Europe, and the perfect public services in Western developed countries are of a socialist nature. The original intention of socialism is to liberate human beings and the productive forces. Today, in capitalist countries, especially in developed countries, this liberation is taking place, but not in the form of revolutions and institutions, but in the form of peaceful policies. .

2. Disintegration and complete privatization can legitimize corruption at the top of the Soviet Union, and can turn a high-level Communist Party member into a world rich man. So it was not the Soviet people who gave up socialism, but the privileged classes of the Soviet Union who wanted to carve up the Soviet Union with the world's chaebols. When the privileged class arises, it ceases to be socialism because, like capitalism, it is selfish and hereditary.

3. Marxism is only one type of socialism. For example, former US presidential candidate Sanderson is a socialist, but he is a democratic socialist. Capitalist society needs elements of socialism, because every country needs perfect public services that do not remember interests. This is the demand of the times and progress.

4. Young liberals have the same hobby as the judges of the Nobel Prize for Literature today, that is, concentration camp addiction, and at the same time have a very confusing and unique understanding of capitalism and socialism.

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    Alexander Kerner: [voiceover] My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, both East and West. But we didn't care.

    [launches rocket]

    Alexander Kerner: She's up there somewhere now. Maybe looking down at us. Maybe she sees us as tiny specks on the Earth's surface, just like Sigmund Jähn did back then. The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form; a country that, in my memory, I will always associate with my mother.

  • Denis: Denis

    [handing Alex a video cassette]

    Denis: It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience...