• 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
            1·
            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.