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    1 year ago

    Czechoslovakia was leaning capitalist and prosperous before the Nazis and then Soviets invaded, both leaning much more leftist, and surpressing the people.

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        1 year ago

        In my opinion yes, but you’re free to have your own definitions for left and right since historians and economists alike disagree on their definitions too.

        My definitions are basically, leftistism is collective control of the means of production. Rightism is individual control. The left is therefore a much more broas category as collective control can take a ton of different forms.

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            1 year ago

            Yes they were. They were corporatist, and exercised significant control on the economy.

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              1 year ago

              So you are actually equating a central authority with political left! That is very interesting to see how far the liberal propaganda went to brainwash people.

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                1 year ago

                I’m equating central planning with leftism yes. Because no one denies a free market is right-wing, so leftism must contradict that.

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                    1 year ago

                    Thanks for the explanation 👍

                    I like to think I have a bit of political knowledge seeing as I have watched hours of C-SPAN testimonies from the 90s, but I must just be at the peak of Dunning-Kruger