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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

Shock therapy in Russia after USSR breaking up, maybe?

That was more extreme, since it was not a transition from left-wing liberal democracy to right-wing liberal democracy, but from bureaucratic planned economy to a pretense at liberal democracy.

Still some examples may apply.

Say, if things state-owned or state-managed in Argentina now get privatized, one can look at the specific mechanism and whether it'll be similar to what happened in Russia.