• Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Do social democracies also ensure better living conditions for the impoverished nations they continue to exploit so they can support their own standards of living?

    I don’t see any extreme left or right regime that provided better conditions than social-democracies.

    I’m not sure what you define as an “extreme regime” but you can try looking at Cuba, China, or the USSR, for starters.

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      I think they could improve their impact on developing nations, especially if we consider the impact of colonialism, but otherwise, yes, I think they contribute to their economic growth which keeps lifting people out of poverty.

      It doesn’t seem like USSR or Cuba’s people had on average better lives than in social-democracies. For China, I think it’s getting better, mostly thanks to the intense economical ties with the rest of the world that they tied once they decide to abandon the communist economy. However, they continue having notable issues with authoritarianism, which seem to be getting worse with the current leader.

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        lol, they (european “social-democracies” and US/EU finance capital) are the root cause of colonialism and the financial system has been built around the global south’s over-exploitation at gunpoint. That has never really stopped. Any over-exploited, colonized country that expresses too much democracy or sovereignty ends up invaded, sanctioned, or couped…

        Cuba is much better now than before the revolution, when mobsters ruled its cities and landlords ruled over the peasantry with an iron fist. There was no democracy there before, and the moment Cuba had a more democratic system it was under assault from the US. The USSR and Cuba were able to develop the way they did in spite of the bourgeois democracies that invaded or assaulted them at every opportunity

        Other countries has intense economical ties to western capital, like India. But their development is nothing compared to China’s. They have incredible levels of poverty and a lack of development. I am sure you will invent some alternative theory as to why China was able to eliminate extreme poverty, but the truth is that “social democracies” in Europe and NA have notable issues with authoritarianism against the global south. They looted the rest of the world at gunpoint and now tell them their development is all because they are lazy or corrupt.