Socialist Albania (part 1)

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• marxism-leninism
• socialist albania
• albania
• socialism
• communism
• enver hoxha
• hoxhaism
• revolution

[joel1923]

@exenter2 When you look at the crime rate, poor electrical grid, and general shabbiness (not to mention the rainbow colored buildings-thank you, Rama), I would say Albania looked better with grey concrete buildings and socialism than it does now.

Under Communism you could walk down the street at 3 o'clock morning and you were safe. Have you tried doing that recently? :)

[NathanielEverist]

@MrStephenr18 They weren't truly communist governments, Communism hasn't existed on this planet yet.

[KGBsovietpride]

Long Live Stalin and Hoxha!

[bjr43]

Where'd you find this old documentary?

[ColdasIce313]

An Albanian from Podgradec once told me a story: A French social worker visited Albania on a trip working on her book. She asked where the brothels were located? Her tour guide replied "We have none" then she replied "so you people sleep with each other's wives then".

Spoken in Albanian one can't help but laugh.

[catpoop420]

look at the happy people working lol

[buzzhawk]

@trickdaddyaz03 I'm sure they'd love to stay and work in their own country and see their society provide them with what they need.

[buzzhawk]

@trickdaddyaz03 And that limited capacity means that every sector becomes overcrowded and wages and profits slump. The outsourcing of jobs from the production sector means that the only way to create jobs in mass gets diminished, and generally the service sector can't compensate for that loss, in fact it's also affected by it. The same thing happens in China too. When wages get too high, production is moved from there also. So you end up being at the mercy of big capital.

[buzzhawk]

@trickdaddyaz03 What about those Mexicans who don't make it, those massacred by drug cartels? Mass graves of illegals trying to get in have been found near the border. Your scenario is fine for some, but for others it's not a reality. The risks involved are way too big. Also, what about the jobs which are being outsourced from America to other places? Doesn't that make it more difficult for both Americans and Mexicans to find jobs? Every sector has a limited capacity.

[buzzhawk]

@trickdaddyaz03 Public transport existed before the invention of the car as we know it today, people relied on horse and electric trams for example. The drive for innovation is not an inherent capitalistic trait. It has been with us throughout every historical age, regardless of the epoch. The fact that we have affordable and advanced communication systems today is a consequence of this historical development.

[buzzhawk]

@trickdaddyaz03 This way of thinking is common with social-democrats, and it's been known to fail. The welfare system of post-war Europe has been proven to be unsustainable within capitalism. We're already witnessing its dismantling today: healthcare is no longer free and universal for example, it's becoming privatized, so people who have access to it see their incomes lowered, while the unemployed are stuck without insurance.

[buzzhawk]

@trickdaddyaz03 Little by little, the pace quickens. It becomes a trot. The industrial trot breaks into a canter, the canter in turn grows into the headlong gallop of a perfect steeplechase of industry, commercial credit, and speculation, which finally, after breakneck leaps, ends where it began — in the ditch of a crisis."