Cuba, a poor blockaded small island nation, has a higher life expectancy than the global hegemon and richest nation ever
The USSR went from a monarchist backwater to a industrial society, defeating the nazis and sending the first satellite into space, in the span of 40 years.
China, under socialism, is now on track to shatter US hegemony through the power of socialist economic management and mutually beneficial cooperation.
Libertarians arent liberals unless you compare them to really ancient ones, they have hangups about the role of the state in preserving capitalism which leaves them laughing stock.
Literally "ex" cia being arrested on suspicion of espionage
Maybe shouldn't have worked for the literal fucking cia, perhaps the most concentratedly evil organization on earth at the moment.
Did you step out of a time machine from the 18th century? Liberals now represent conservative forces.
Liberals aren't lefties.
It is healthy for the populace in the sense that only 26 million people die instead of the vast majority of a population of 150 million, which would have happened without conscription.
It is justified when the war is an existential threat to the people of an area, not of the state ruling the area.
Conscription against the nazis invading the USSR in a war of extermination
Russia and Hungary are capitalist, China is a transitional stage economy run by a communist party.
Okay, what about the whole soviets and sharing power with trade unions thing? What about their innovations in participatory democracy. The USSR were hyperdemocratic, even on war footing, at least until destalinization happened and the bureaucracy started taking hold.
Stalin tried to resign 3 times and wasn't allowed to. Weird thing for a dictator to not be allowed to do.
Faux populists, populists are actually cool