• KusimulkkuEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      I think many of the socialist states of Asia and Eastern Europe are or were ridiculously corrupt. How democratic those were is of course questionable.

        • KusimulkkuEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I meant that it wasn’t really very resistant to corruption.

            • KusimulkkuEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              I’m not sure even that is true. Not sure how you can even really measure that. Or do you mean it could theoretically be?

                • KusimulkkuEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  What do you feel was the reason that the corruption was so high in Eastern European socialist states?

      • dangblingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        11 months ago

        There was never socialism in Asia or Eastern Europe. At no point have the workers seized the means of production and had a dictatorship of the proletariat.

        • rchiveEnglish
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          11 months ago

          You can apply this No True Scotsman logic to capitalism, too. Its biggest fans say True capitalism has never been tried, either.