Liberals always do this, they always glorify whatever came before a socialist revolution and will always decry the revolution as actually worse somehow. There are three ways to judge how a nation is doing (stealing this from a hexbear comment I liked): Compare it to what surrounds it, compare it to its past, or compare it to fantasy. Liberals always choose the third option.
What came before the USSR? A largely illiterate pogrom filled Tsardom where women weren't allowed to get educated outside of a nunnery. China? A confusing bureaucratic mess of colonizers vying for regional power exploiting the country's frequent famines and that the country had yet to fully recover from its civil war 80 years beforehand, a civil war that killed 30+ million people.
Cuba? Basically a mob-run casino island where the average person lived in a shack with a dirt floor. Democratic People's Republic of Korea? A literal Japanese colony and victim of genocide.
all countries that had socialist revolutions have seen striking increases in quality of life and stability and I don't know of any exceptions. Maybe Romania.
i just wanna clarify that you're referring to the Taiping Rebellion specifically, since that usually doesn't get called the Chinese Civil War, even though it was indeed a Chinese Civil War.
that's the one I meant, it left the country decimated and ripe for outside imperial conquest, which is what happened since the second opium war started half-way through the Taiping Rebellion. It was why the Shanghai ports were owned by the UK for so long too.
Liberals always do this, they always glorify whatever came before a socialist revolution and will always decry the revolution as actually worse somehow. There are three ways to judge how a nation is doing (stealing this from a hexbear comment I liked): Compare it to what surrounds it, compare it to its past, or compare it to fantasy. Liberals always choose the third option.
What came before the USSR? A largely illiterate pogrom filled Tsardom where women weren't allowed to get educated outside of a nunnery. China? A confusing bureaucratic mess of colonizers vying for regional power exploiting the country's frequent famines and that the country had yet to fully recover from its civil war 80 years beforehand, a civil war that killed 30+ million people.
Cuba? Basically a mob-run casino island where the average person lived in a shack with a dirt floor. Democratic People's Republic of Korea? A literal Japanese colony and victim of genocide.
all countries that had socialist revolutions have seen striking increases in quality of life and stability and I don't know of any exceptions. Maybe Romania.
Tibet is one their favorites but they never acknowledge the chatel slavery or theocracy
i just wanna clarify that you're referring to the Taiping Rebellion specifically, since that usually doesn't get called the Chinese Civil War, even though it was indeed a Chinese Civil War.
that's the one I meant, it left the country decimated and ripe for outside imperial conquest, which is what happened since the second opium war started half-way through the Taiping Rebellion. It was why the Shanghai ports were owned by the UK for so long too.
Romania is just Romania