first they came for X, and I helped them disappear X because they gave me a share of the money X was making and it was good money for me! ... and then when they came for me I didn’t complain because that would be cringe and hypocritical.
A single verb, while technically not a complete sentence, can be made into a question by adding a question mark. And it was intended as a rhetorical response to your single word statement.
Anyway. Socialism has failed in many/most places mostly because of power, corruption and lies.
> A single verb, while technically not a complete sentence, can be made into a question by adding a question mark.
A transitive verb requires a direct object.
> And it was intended as a rhetorical response to your single word statement.
It’s a perfectly well-formed, complete answer. The haters know what it means, the lovers know what it means. Everybody else can use Google.
People who then ask for a completely general followup (at least as it pertains to this subtopic) instead of a more specialized question most likely aren’t really wondering but just want to fire back with their talking points.
> Anyway. Socialism has failed in many/most places mostly because of power, corruption and lies.
The power of whom? Maybe the US? That invaded Vietnam, that split up Korea and bombed North Korea, that tried to do a coup in Cuba, that intervened in the political process maybe 40 times in Latin America.
Yeah, the power of capitalist imperialism is a huge problem for socialism. Maybe unsurmountable.
I still believe you gloss over the terror all the countries you list have caused to the population.
And it can not all be blamed on imperialism and "other states".
I come from one of the "middle ground" countries (Sweden) but much of the remaining state ownership and planned economy was wiped out in the 90s when we had an economical crisis.
(And if you want to nitpick again, the last paragraph was not a statement only an observation)
I gloss over the terror? It is not normal for anyone to start to go over the supposed terrorism (EDIT: terror) of nondescript countries when that topic has not even been brought up.[1] In turn there has not even been a chance for me to gloss it over.
> And it can not all be blamed on imperialism and "other states".
Concerns such as these can apparently be set aside with the mere use of scare quotes. But it is perhaps understandable. Even politically high-ranking Swedish individuals that criticize imperialism can get bodily hurt, as history has shown.
[1] Unless one is supposed to do that as a matter of course when advocating a political ideology like capitalism or socialism.
