i live in luxembourg and am part of the local communist party but i frequently ask myself if a tiny landlocked nation even could be socialist (imagining that a revolution somehow happened) because we are surrounded by european core countries like germany and france which build the center of the neoliberal european union and they would never let this country turn socialist. In answer to this they with the help of the US would most certainly invade Luxembourg. Independence would also be a problem, we are completely dependent on trade with other countries, mostly our western neighbors and their finance which would (IF the invasion failed) sanction us. In answer, if Luxembourg turned socialist it would be a misery for the poeple, not because of the socialism, but because of our “allies” attacking and sanctioning us.

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    1 year ago

    Considering Luxembourg has one of the highest minimum wages of Europe, set at 2500€ which is surpassed only by Switzerland, I don’t think so. No one in Luxembourg has a material incentive to even vote for a Communist party, let alone do a revolution.

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      yea the people here are dissatisfied but for the wrong reasons and not to the extent to ever consider socialism a viable option