doctor_sociology [none/use name]

it’s a quote from disco elysium

liberals need total narrative security now that they don’t know what to believe- their lying eyes or the ideology that promises them their regimes aren’t falling apart but are stronger than ever.

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agree, after world war II the UK pulled inwards and the concept of “british canada” i.e. the canadian outpost of the imperial civil service got demolished and the place became america with free healthcare.

liberals: the symptoms are bad, but the causes are so good

the tankie now actually mean anyone who doesn’t want to send the tanks in (to the ukraine) which is fucking nuts

Most of the stuff pointed out (cultural conservatism, bourgeois “rights”) are liberal posthoc stories told by the west as cover. The soviet union failed plain and simple because the party itself did not believe it was legitimate. Economic dysfunction is not an automatic death sentence for a regime, otherwise the high inflation and chronic shortage nations like Argentina and Mexico would have their nation states fragmented and replaced every few years.

The USSR, starting with Khrushchev as ssjmarx puts it, was run by a vanguard party that shit all over its past leaders and embraced nothing but personal gain and bureaucratic ladder climbing. By the time you get to 1980s USSR, the CPSU was not a party of the people but a party over the people.

In fact, Gorbachev’s glastnost policies were the impetus for the west to seize upon nationalist movements in undermining the USSR. The state security apparatus that had kept the union together for decades suddenly couldn’t act on nationalist sentiment. And once people got used to complaining about the CPSU it was pretty much all over. Opportunists inside the party and all over worked overtime to heighten every crisis . Ultimately, you can trace the start of the collapse to Gorby flying to Crimea to renegotiate the Union treaty into something more like federalism, but by then Union hardliners had enough. They couped him and in the resulting chaos opportunists like Yeltsin were able to seize the initiative and dismantle the USSR republic by republic.