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Flip side of the coin - about 80 years ago
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Originally Posted by Plooking
And quite right so... albeit the concept of "democracy" in that context is not the same as used by the rest of the people. The D for "Democracy" in the DDR along with several other similar cases in other communist countries refers to the Leninist-Stalinist concepts of democracy which has nothing to do with the concept of democracy in civilized world. One word, two whole different meanings. To the current systems in most European Countries they refer as "Burgeois Democracy", something to abolish under communist doctrine for they don't consider it to be a democracy at all.
The Leninist-Stalinist concept of democracy is still used by some extreme left parties nowadays such as Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece (although these had to cave to proper democracy or risk bankruptcy) or Bloco de Esquerda in Portugal. Unfortunatelly the vast majority of people don't know enough about the history of communism to understand that the democracy to which these parties refer is not the same currently in existence in these countries and, of course, the parties themselves are quite happy to keep the fiction. Otherwise the people would understand that these parties' concept of democracy equates dictatorship in layman terms or "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" as defined by Marx and Engels.
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Whereas, on the other side of the totalitarian fence, during roughly the same period, Hitlers' rise to power was funded by German industrialists aided by funding from the USA of the day - after the USA entered WW2 (more than 2 years after it kicked off in Europe) that nation considered who had been assisting the Nazi party to come to power; one such was the father of George W.
Bankers win-win, no matter who does the dying bit.
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Dave
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