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4·26 days agoThe key is to always give the capitalists everything they want.
Depends on the country. Some places don’t give a shit. Some places will fine you for downloading even 1 byte.
Happy red birthday comrade.
In greek it’s pronounced Astee, Αστοί. Has nothing to do with burgers :P
Aside from the occasional don’t-get-me-wrong disclaimer like “I’m sure Stalin was not a great guy” or “I’m sure Stalin did bad things”, I find the rest of it to be an impressive questioning of the Western propaganda narrative for someone who is not a marxist. For us, there’s nothing really new in the video. It’s just satisfying to see someone escape the bubble of lies with nothing else but logic and skepticism.
There’s a youtube channel called Socialist Swan that covers a lot of aspects of life and inner workings in the DDR.
I’d also suggest this book: “Stasi State or Socialist Paradise”
In East Germany, you could send a letter to any official’s office up to the chairman with complaints, suggestions, etc, and they not only had to read it, but had to respond back with the steps they took to resolve your issue, or explain why they couldn’t resolve it, within 4 week. By law, they had to prove to you that they put in every effort to help you. Then every few months, they had to submit to a committee of volunteers all the letters they received and the responses the gave. This committee published all the data of the amount of letters sent through this channel, and the % of letters that were successfully resolved. It’s estimated that at least 2/3rds of all households in East Germany had sent such a letter and got a successful resolution out of it, throughout the DDR’s history.
Former soviet republics still have a far better literacy score, more doctors per capita, and a more equal representation of women in sciences and academics than many Western capitalist countries.
Old Star Trek is my usual therapy.
Also, not ML, but if you want to read an uplifting badass story about mentally broken people kicking butts, I can’t recommend the Stormlight Archive enough.