• KusimulkkuEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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·
        1 year ago

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

          • KusimulkkuEnglish
            2·
            1 year 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·
                1 year ago

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

                  • KusimulkkuEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    I don’t think it’s corrupt vs non-corrupt but about the level of corruption

    • dangblingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year 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
        1·
        1 year ago

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