SEGA GOON

4y

I visited school in Germany and never heard Marx mentioned. Also the Ottoman Empire was never mentioned. We never really learned about WW2 from 1940 - 1945. We did have classes on the Holocaust basically every year from grade 8 to grade 12, including multiple visits to concentration camps. The Soviet Union was never really mentioned much. East Germany was the subject of one or two lessons. Never learned about the Ruhr Uprising or the street violence of 1920s Weimar, or the Bavarian peoples republic despite being in Bavaria . Rosa and Karl were mentioned in a lesson but they portrayed it like they announced their new state too late and the Weimar state was announced an hour earlier so that's why it got recognized lol

China was not really taken seriously yet, just a place for cheap production. My geography teacher didnt know Taiwan was called ROC and also denied manmade climate change existed. Basically every human-geographic problem we a***yzed boiled down to "they would need more money to fix it", without asking why or how the third world or other places get societal problems like this. Also another teacher suggested the third world is poor because of the climate making it warm so people become too lazy

SEGA GOON

4y

I visited school in Germany and never heard Marx mentioned. Also the Ottoman Empire was never mentioned. We never really learned about WW2 from 1940 - 1945. We did have classes on the Holocaust basically every year from grade 8 to grade 12, including multiple visits to concentration camps. The Soviet Union was never really mentioned much. East Germany was the subject of one or two lessons. Never learned about the Ruhr Uprising or the street violence of 1920s Weimar, or the Bavarian peoples republic despite being in Bavaria . Rosa and Karl were mentioned in a lesson but they portrayed it like they announced their new state too late and the Weimar state was announced an hour earlier so that's why it got recognized lol

China was not really taken seriously yet, just a place for cheap production. My geography teacher didnt know Taiwan was called ROC and also denied manmade climate change existed. Basically every human-geographic problem we a***yzed boiled down to "they would need more money to fix it", without asking why or how the third world or other places get societal problems like this. Also another teacher suggested the third world is poor because of the climate making it warm so people become too lazy

Sepah

4y

The pre Assad Ba’athist era in Syria has always been super interesting to me

SEGA GOON

4y

Pre Assad Senior or Assad Junior ?

fun guy

4y

my thesis is that neoliberalism exacerbated inequality in latin america and led to a resurgence in leftist movements/left turns. pretty clear and seems obvious but i need help proving it using empirical evidence. does anyone have any ideas?

the reds

4y

Crisis of capitalist overproduction? Uhmmm sounds like malthusian degrowth talk to me 🙄

krishna bound

4y

tulsi gabbard filling in for tucker as a temp host on fox news

krishna bound

4y

i don't think any country teaches the weimar republic correctly really. it was weird taboo subject to touch on in detail even in my higher level college courses

Nessy

4y

Every french lib keeps talking about how great and efficient german infrastructure/schools/public services are then i go on ktt and read stuff like this

fun guy

4y

my thesis is that neoliberalism exacerbated inequality in latin america and led to a resurgence in leftist movements/left turns. pretty clear and seems obvious but i need help proving it using empirical evidence. does anyone have any ideas?

SEGA GOON

4y

What are u referring to?

the reds

4y

Idk I'm just mad at techno utopians

SEGA GOON

4y

Could look at Pinochet era statistics maybe

SEGA GOON

4y

I did check out the solarpunk subreddit and you'd think some of them were anarcho-primitivists the way they talk about stuff. Their idea of environmentalism is living in the woods. IMO, technology isn't the culprit nor the savior, but the society that uses these tools.

the reds

4y

Are they techno utopian? Seem like regular anarchist aesthetes to me.

fun guy

4y

yea i was gonna do a case study on chile.

basically i think that in countries where extremely harsh neoliberal policies were implemented, e.g. chile, unequal conditions were created that increased the likelihood of prominent leftist movements. you could say that inequality is a prime factor for the emergence of leftist movements, and neoliberalism creates inequality, so therefore neoliberalism leads to the emergence of leftist movements. i just need some specific countries to look at so i can test this.

as a comparison id need to look at countries that implemented less harsh neoliberal policies that dont have strong leftist movements

SEGA GOON

4y

Could probably use Scandinavia for latter comparison

fun guy

4y

potentially, conditions between the nordic countries and LatAm are vastly different tho so it would be a difficult comparison to make

do you know of any countries in LatAm that are more social democratic/didnt go fully neolib like Chile et al?

the reds

4y

@Scratchin_Bandit you know that thing about Canadian rightists being obsessed with America? One of my coworkers is a MAGA neocon lmao