I truly did not want to make this post, but since apparently not a single person here or in the other thread told you off for suggesting communism as an alternative for Germany I guess I have to.
Frankly it is quite disgusting, not only tone deaf, that communism is being suggested by you, even though Germans, the same people that are still alive to this very day, have well experienced DDR and what it brought for Germany in terms of economic and social changes. You can have a look at various map breakdowns of Germany to see how East Germany fares to this day in economic development, average income, HDI and voting patterns. Suffice to say, the DDR was hardly a good state to live in, especially in the 80s when the Warsaw Pact was going through economic downturns. That’s not even mentioning just how authoritarian the state was. If you ask any older person in East Germany, most of them will tell you that they personally know someone who was in the revealed Stasi files. A massive secret police that would only rival the KGB in its prominence and repressive measures. People died trying to cross the Berlin Wall into the West, for lord’s sake.
A centrally planned economy has been tried and simply did not bring prosperity to the region. And while there were certain things DDR improved upon, it’s legacy is a shameful stain on Germany’s history. Die Linke knows not to brandish its ties to the former DDR establishment, why don’t you? To suggest that Germany, I don’t know… simply gives it another chance is incredibly insulting to the point I don’t think you comprehend what you are even stating. If you go to Dresden or Berlin and tell anyone there that perhaps they should try communism if the CDU is disappointing, expect to be slapped on the face. Communism has made its reputation in the former Eastern Bloc clear, no one wants it back. No one wants to consider a vaguely M-L state ever again. Even in Yugoslavia, which was somewhat Market Socialist, the memory of it is anything but fond. And while Socialism in some vague form may take roots there, it will not be without working within the capitalist economy that those governments have tried so hard and so painfully to switch to.
I have seen a few instances of people telling the former Warsaw Pact countries to try again and every time it was nothing short of outrageous. And before you say “well obviously I meant the better forms of communism, like my strain of it”, word your statements better and do not try to even call it communism if you are trying to pitch it to them. One would know better than to call upon the name of the system that the general populace there understands as a deeply totalitarian system where you’d get harassed if not killed for mounting any opposition, even legal, to the ruling government.
https://knockout.chat/thread/83322
User in question is Polish (but moved away)
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The response to it ain’t any better either lol
in the GDDR it was illegal to be happy and there were no homes anywhere and freedom was illegal and democracy was banned and they forced you to not be homeless and healthcare didnt exist only it did exist and it was the worst ever you had to wait 9999 years to get healthcare and pay for it vodka only the police executed you because they banned healthcare and made food illegal and you had to eat off the black market that the police provided except they shot you for getting food since food was banned and they controlled the prices so food only cost 0.00000001$ so nobody ever grew aniamsl and literally everybody hated it hated east germany i mean so anyway 69 million people tried to scale the berlin wall but they all starved as they were exeectuted by the statsi and you couldnt be patriotic or vote and they forced you to vote except they exceuted you because voting was illegal and they forced you to smile for the camera only the police executed you because being happy was banned and you couldnt do anything or go anywhere or be anything and now literally whenever you literally mention communism to germans they literally all murder you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But seriously:
There is no society where approximately 99% of the population hates every single second of it and is constantly screaming for release. I wouldn’t adopt this narrative even for anticommunist piss buckets like Chile. Don’t be fucking boneheaded.