It’s the history written by the labor aristocrats and petite bourgeoisie who thought they’d make out better under capitalism than socialism. It ignores the many millions of working class individuals who suffered and died and who would gladly take security and safety over fucking oranges. But we never hear their stories in the west. We only hear from businessmen, journalists, academics etc who decry “no oranges” and ignore the suffering of the masses.
That’s literally the pop-history definition here why the gdr failed because of muh bananas, jeans and coffee.
Bananas have a history of dividing and brutalising the working class everywhere:
your link is breaking the website
Which one?
the 2nd one
Oh, because it extends past the screen? Idk why it does that.
How long does something have to exist before it’s not considered a failure? Or is everything a failure and always was if it collapsed eventually?
Only socialism. Anything else isn’t.
It’s the history written by the labor aristocrats and petite bourgeoisie who thought they’d make out better under capitalism than socialism. It ignores the many millions of working class individuals who suffered and died and who would gladly take security and safety over fucking oranges. But we never hear their stories in the west. We only hear from businessmen, journalists, academics etc who decry “no oranges” and ignore the suffering of the masses.