Oh, bro, the capitalists did. Bought up everything and scrapped it. One of the reasons the east is where it is today.
The east of where ?
Wdym??
East of where?
east of the wall, obviously
What wall?
the one that this whole post is about?
China?
Hmm… where’s Berlin again? 🤔
Kazakhstan?
If capitalism is so great why did they never made a capitalism 2 ?
Fantastic point
Communism as practiced so far sucks, and maybe it can’t be done.
Capitalism practiced perfectly sucks for everyone but the filthy rich, eventually. That eventuality happens to be upon us now.
A larger percentage of humans have a higher quality of life then any other time in history.
artificial scarcity exists by design
I stick with organic
Probably because there was no communist side^^
I know its a shitpost btw but we are still allowed to react to its content.
Thats the goal, yes.
It is important to note that they were going to a very strong welfare state, not so different than the most developed welfare states in Europe today.
So when I hear Americans saying this, I feel that it is important to note that they were not escaping to a American-like society/state, but a well developed liberal social democracy. Universal healthcare being one of many welfare services Americans do not have.
I would probably have done the same thing.
Btw: Not claiming you are American, this is just a pet peeve of mine
How dare you claim I’m American.
downvote because political agitation in the shitpost meme community. pls move to politics communities
What do you mean?
there’s dedicated politics communities for that stuff. (i blocked almost all of them so i can’t search for them rn)
pls no politics in the shitpost community.
You mean the community based around low effort photos, ragebait, inflammatory and trolling posts is an inappropriate place to post low effort inflammatory ragebait?
there’s a difference between a shitpost and a shit post
Tell me about it
Even a conservative thinker argued before that people don’t just go to where there are “free stuff”, most people still value rule of law and freedom. Only few, if ever, risked their lives crossing the Caribbean to go to America not to Cuba, the latter which has free healthcare. Now that I think about it, African refugees fleeing post-colonial strife did not go to either Eastern Europe or USSR during the Cold war, they went to Europe and North America instead.
Way to fail to take context into account.
Tell me about it.
The people of the GDR were caged in and cut off of their folk in the very city that just happens to be in west-berlin, so of course people were happy for the iron curtain to fall.
What happened financially, economically and technological with east-germany was a crime (“Treuhand Skandal”) and was the harbinger of the ugly head that is capitalism.
Sounds like I completely understand the context then and continue to hold my opinion.
You probably think the Wall fell because of David Hasselhoff, eh?
Didn’t it?
No shit
Marxism-Leninism is a dead-end.
But they did keep the cute cross walk guys.
I read ‘Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It’ by Bruni de la Motte, John Green, and Seumas Milne. This book really challenged my western perspective on East Germany and highlighted the complex collapse that occurred. Something that isn’t talked about is how many social and workers rights were taken away or reduced when the wall fell. Feminism in particular backslid tremendously as state support for female employment was removed and women as a result faced widespread unemployment.
I guess I just want to point out it wasn’t a perfect black and white victory for the west, it was also a calamity that caused depression era style suffering for the people living there. I strongly recommend the book for anyone that enjoys circle jerking the fall of the Wall.
What do you mean?
Remind me which major country was the least affected by the Great Depression. ☭
Might be interesting to know, considering the direction the capitalist economy is taking now.
Kazakhstan
Oh yeah, Kazakhstan. One of the heaviest hitters on the world stage. Please return to facebook.
What’s Facebook?
