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[–] MamboGator@lemmy.world 228 points 2 years ago (33 children)

Argentina is about to become the latest case study that libertarians refuse to acknowledge when you tell them their policies don't work.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 61 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Nah it's not that it's libertarianism failing it's just that idiots version of it failing

What they'll say when it fails or next time someone else tries to implement their ideals

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But what will Lemmy communists say when you point out USSR and China?

[–] force@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To be fair USSR after communism was leagues better than USSR before communism ever could have been. But it's not exactly proving much pointing out that an extremely unequal authoritarian regime is worse than a more equal but still authoritarian regime.

I don't think the comparison works anyway because this is a true example of exactly what most libertarians have wet dreams of, while with communism people try to use e.g. the USSR and PRC to discredit leftism as a whole (especially socialism) even though any leftist worth their salt would realize authoritarianism is bad and creates a dangerous hierarchy, which is why Marx and Engels specified their ideologies to be democratic.

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