Born & living in eastern europe... Well, technically born in USSR... Maybe that makes me unqualified to talk europe and socialism :)
> because it's silly American paranoia, there a lot of socialism in every political platform and State politics, social welfare and labour in most of the EU members.
What silly American paranoia in eastern europe? And social democracy has nothing to do with socialism.
> Yeah like my country is not at the border with the former Yugoslavia or hadn't the stronger communist party in all the west.
There's a massive difference between cosplaying commies in communist party in a free country and living under socialismus-communismus regime. As our own communists learned after being annexed into USSR.
> What silly American paranoia in eastern europe? And social democracy has nothing to do with socialism.
A relatively high percentage of Americans believe that getting health insurance from the government will lead to a Stalinist like era in America. We can't even make simple improvements to our bureaucracy like a federal ID system instead of having all 50 states issue seperate IDs because of this.
Many Americans cannot differentiate between the social programs of Marxist countries and the anti-democratic single party systems which concentrated state power and made them repressive and corrupt.
It's a bit like thinking that because a country starts building an interprovincial highway system it is going to become fascist Italy or Germany.
I know that part. But in this case another user, who seems to be european, calls my experience in Eastern europe „American paranoia“.
It feels like some people have such a strong irrational love for certain political system that they can't accept that some people dislike it for valid reasons.
Maybe actual American paranoia is when people blame US of A for whatever when their arguments run out.
Born & living in eastern europe... Well, technically born in USSR... Maybe that makes me unqualified to talk europe and socialism :)
> because it's silly American paranoia, there a lot of socialism in every political platform and State politics, social welfare and labour in most of the EU members.
What silly American paranoia in eastern europe? And social democracy has nothing to do with socialism.
> Yeah like my country is not at the border with the former Yugoslavia or hadn't the stronger communist party in all the west.
There's a massive difference between cosplaying commies in communist party in a free country and living under socialismus-communismus regime. As our own communists learned after being annexed into USSR.