• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    The historical record shows that there are no maybes about this. It’s obviously not an “interesting experiment.” There’s no sense in giving these rhetorical inches while they’re taking miles.

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      8 months ago

      What historical record? Can you point to another country taking such a extreme turn to the right while being in similar situation? And not being met with sanctions like in Afghanistan for example. I’m genuinely curious.

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        8 months ago

        Can you point to another country taking such a extreme turn to the right while being in similar situation?

        While that isn’t what I was talking about, Weimer Germany is the canonical example of a similar situation, but there are many examples.

        What I was talking about is the historical record of neoliberal shock therapies, which Naomi Klein documented well.