• galloog1@lemmy.world
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    I don’t think it was the USSR that was the motivation behind it, at least the ones during that period. It might’ve been more the hatred of cities, cancer, disease, and pests respectively. I will admit, giving the USSR credit for the environmental movement in the US is a creative and new one for me. You are off by about 25 years there for the beginning but it’s close.

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      1 year ago

      The USSR deserves credit for pretty much every good idea the US has ever had since the New Deal.

      And now that the USSR is gone, everything good the US has ever done is being eroded by fascists.

      Makes you think!

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        No, that was me. I take credit for it all. No autonomy for anyone.

        Ideas are great. Execution begets prosperity.

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          It has nothing to do with autonomy!

          The US only implemented reforms to placate the working class and stop them from getting any ideas of revolution. The Cold War was an ideological war, so once the USSR fell the spectre of revolution was gone. The Cold War “proved” that communism doesn’t work and there will never be a global proletarian revolution and there’s no need to placate the masses to keep them passive.

          So, like I keep saying, that’s why everything good is being destroyed. They believe it’s not necessary because the threat of communist revolution is gone. The illusion of democracy is gone, now the ruling class can just do whatever it wants with no consequences.

          Who cares if climate change kills the poors?

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            I’m sorry to break it to you but not everything is about your oppressive communist revolution. Not any more than any other historical counter to the liberal world. Don’t go through the world thinking everything is about what you care about.

            All the hammer sees is nails.