• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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          26 days ago

          Yeah, because they all got crushed after their democratically elected leaders got removed and often killed or imprisoned during the entire Cold War. Also leftists are starting to win elections again quite regularly in South America, so I’m starting to think you just don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

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            26 days ago

            Yeah, because they all got crushed after their democratically elected leaders got removed and often killed or imprisoned during the entire Cold War.

            Sounds like the ideology has a flaw that makes it unsustainable in the real world.

            Also leftists are starting to win elections again quite regularly in South America, so I’m starting to think you just don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

            Even with those small wins, leftism is still a minority on that continent, let alone the whole planet. Because leftists don’t win elections.

            Does that help you understand what we are talking about?

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              The flaw being that when a small country starts trying to determine their own self governance that a far larger and more powerful country can crush it? Also, that argument falls down when you look at places like China and Cuba and DPRK and Venezuela still persist, and even demsoc countries like Norway are still flourishing.

              Also no, saying “these countries are winning elections but leftists don’t win elections” is not the genius argument you think it is. I don’t even understand how you think that could be an argument.