I came across this article from a little over a year ago and I’d like to know, what do you think of Gen Z and Millennial Americans and other Westerners who admire communism and think it wasn’t that bad, even though they’ve never experienced communism themselves? How do Slovenes view communism?
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I’m against both communism and fascism, just so nobody thinks I agree with these people. I just want to hear what Slovenes think of this phenomenon among young people in the West.
I had no idea US kids admire communism. Is this for real or just some type of youthful rebelliousness?
>what do you think of Gen Z and Millennial Americans and other Westerners who admire communism and think it wasn’t that bad
Retarded
>How do Slovenes view communism?
If their family was in the party and was part of the priviliged population they think it’s a good thing. Others not so much
They are cringe. They’d be the first people sent to the camps.
Apparently only the right wingers decided to post. Because in general most people have either neutral or positive outlook on Yugoslav type of socialism.
One wrote that only those who had their parents in party think, it was great. Well only one of my grandparents was in the party, the one I had least interaction with.
But make no mistake, I’m not a Communist. I think that economic and political ideology created in late 19th century, can’t effectively solve the problems of our current age.
But the main criticism of capitalism provided by Marx still rings true, it’s just way more complex.
I think Imperialistic with a good leader that only wants to do good to humanity.
You have two groups glorifying communism…. Very old people who were party members and got priviliged from their status, and young people, who weren’t even born yet, when communism here ended.
But otherwise, if you were a lazy and/or incompetent person, yugoslav communism was great for you… you didn’t really have to do a lot of work (and noone sent you to a gulag), and you got paid almost as much or exactly the same as more competent and hard working people doing the same job. On the other hand, one of our biggest exports (if not the biggest) was the workforce, because competent people realized very fast, that their hard work and competence is valued more elsewhere (mostly austria, germany, france, switzerland, etc.).
A lot of people remember it fondly. Not just party members. Mostly I hear “we had everything we needed, we got along and we had a lot of fun”. On the other hand, many privileged people before the rise of communism had their wealth taken away and obviously didn’t like that. Those people passed their dissatisfaction onto their children and now they’re commenting on this post.
It’s mixed. To be honest, most people have the stance that their parents raised them with. That’s my observation. I find that most people lack an in-depth understanding of the period, and schools in general just barely touch it. I doubt that an average Slovene could explain to you the difference between central planning of USSR and market socialism we had.
What I believe was better back then was a sense of community and working for the common good, such as volunteering for public works. Some of it is still here, like cleaning actions or volunteer firefighters, but it’s not the same. As a teenager, I never understood why you would pick up trash or donate blood for free, since I was raised in a very capitalist mindset. Now that I’m older, I see the value of caring for society as a whole and not only yourself. I think we need more of that back.
What really radicalized me is housing. Back then, you had many options. You could get an apartment made either by the state or by your employer. Or you could squat vacant housing or just build your own. The state built many enormous housing projects, and firms used the profits to build housing and holiday accommodations for their workers as well. Today, many people simply can’t afford a place of their own. Even folks working full time find themselves living in their childhood rooms. It’s very tragic that a country with double the GDP we used to have back then can’t provide basic necessities. This is why I believe capitalism can simply not provide what the people need.
Fuck communism lol. It’s a an extreme approach. In the same sense, also fuck capitalism when taken to the extreme (the way the US does it).
A mix of two, capitalism with strong social policies, is what I like the most.