{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "real \"getting sad over the decay and fall of socialism\" hours", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/168600380898/", "html": "

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real \u201cgetting sad over the decay and fall of socialism\u201d hours

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idc if it makes me a tankie or authoritarian stalinist or whatever but there was a point in history where a large portion of the world\u2019s population lived in countries where the status quo was, to some degree, caring about humanity as a whole. there was a point in time when a newly-literate sichuanese peasant mother organizing a fundraiser to support south african workers was a normal thing that could happen. when the plight of black people in the US was a huge concern for millions of soviet citizens. when the average person in dozens of countries knew their neighbor\u2019s names, and cared about the future of humanity. i know i sound stupid, and no socialist country was a utopia, but the achievements of the hundreds of millions of human beings who worked towards a kinder world must never be forgotten.

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add in eternal life and this is how Catholicism understood itself

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