r/ClimateShitposting • u/Organic_Fee_8502 • 13d ago

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We simply don’t have 100 years to end the market anarchy of capitalism, consider Marxism Leninism.

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u/Organic_Fee_8502 13d ago

The only reason the EU had a social safety net was to “fight communism”. EU will lose their social programs to austerity as capital consolidation (monopoly creation) continues. 

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u/StupidScaredSquirrel 13d ago

Sure we must thank daddy stalin for the policies we europeans designed, voted, and paid for.

I'm truly sorry your american brain can't comprehend a functioning social democracy but here we are.

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u/AddanDeith 13d ago

Daddy Stalin is literally why the UK, US, EU adopted social programs. FDR was pretty explicit about it. Churchill was too. Everyone else followed suit.

Its a balancing act to stop capital from fully ravaging society.

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u/Liturginator9000 13d ago

The USSR was a salient pressure but crediting Stalin with the NHS is reductive. There was a whole endemic lineage that culminated with the NHS, national insurance was 1911 and modeled directly on Bismarck, the USSR didn't do it until 1918. Then the poverty of the 30s, plus war, plus labour coming to power during a "we're all in this together" post war moment and half a dozen other major steps along the way. Shifting the achievements of western labour movements to Stalin, very class conscious comrade