• plyth@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Those were concessions to look good compared to communist countries. There is no need for a good impression anymore.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      24 hours ago

      That’s one way to look at it, but I think it was more of the Reagan-Thatcher generation killing off the left and the rot set in. I wouldn’t discount the achievements of leftists as just concessions from capital. They don’t give an inch if they don’t have to.

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        23 hours ago

        They had to. If life in western Europe would have been worse than in eastern Europe, people would have elected communists.