This is a question I’ve been meaning to ask for a very long time.

Candidates:

  • Syria (ruled by Assad of the Ba’athist party, which seems to be a form of Arab Socialism)
  • Nicaragua (ruled by a Socialist party, surprised they haven’t went the China route already… but then again they’re within the close proximity of Usonia, so I guess it makes sense)
  • Nepal (So many Communist Parties + Already ruled by one, it would be a huge shame if it doesn’t turn Socialist or go that route)

There are likely other countries too that has the potential to turn Socialist/Leftist, like Peru; but I don’t know much about them so I didn’t put them in there. Sorry about that. But anyway, which country do you think will be the next/Sixth AES country?

  • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    2 years ago

    Any comrades have more informed opinions on this regarding: South Africa, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Iraq, Belarus?

    I don’t expect it to be next, but after Russia goes through its culture war phase between its Westoid liberals and nationalist reactionaries I wouldn’t be surprised if it could become socialist again, so much of the socialist infrastructure remains intact and such a precedent is…well…unprecedented. At least the general idea is–even if in name only–cordial to average people.

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]@lemmygrad.mlOP
      18·
      2 years ago

      Iraq

      Somehow I doubt Socialism’s going to come back in Iraq, after Saddam’s (another well-known Ba’athist/Arab Socialist) been taken out of the picture.

      Belarus

      I don’t know if Socialism will come back in Belarus 1, but hasn’t Lukashenko already put Capitalism on a tight leash?

      1 It might, especially if Russia restores Socialism again; seeing how close the two countries are. I don’t have high hopes of Russia turning Socialism anytime soon though, due to younger people in Eastern Europe not being interested in Socialist ideologies; compared to older people, probably the first and likely only time I’m ever gonna stan boomers lol.

      Not just that, but after some people got a taste of capital, they became full-on bourgeois pigs in power. Besides, some people on interviews done by 1420 (inb4 someone says it’s a liberal organization, i’d actually be surprised) already say that although they miss the USSR, they’re “fine with it not coming back”.

      • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        2 years ago

        I thought I heard recently that communism has picked up a bit with youth, not just because of nostalgia

        • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
          10·
          2 years ago

          I hope so, so many Russians under 30 that I talk to seem like total libs (it might be the spaces that I’m in, though, they’re all artsy and anything touched by the Western art-o-sphere is insufferably hipster IMO)

              • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
                4·
                2 years ago

                I remember fondly a composition professor at my university who “wrote” a new piece of music called Ma Mer. It was just the cello part of Debussy’s La Mer played by itself. This wasn’t plagiarism, you see, because the professor told everybody exactly what he was doing. Worse, the piece got some kind of favorable write-up in a new music review.

                It was then that I realized people who disparage Shostakovich and Prokofiev as “propaganda music” are full of it.

                • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
                  4·
                  2 years ago

                  Quite similar in a different space of music, in rap I find many people act entitled to money for their music when at BEST they are standing on the shoulders of giants/dozens of unsung heroes, and at WORST they are literally just clicking a few times.

                  They will use a loop made by someone else as a basis for the lead instrumentation, for the drums they will copy and paste a MIDI pattern so they don’t even have to craft their own drum patterns, they will use the same handful of safe percussion sounds, they will follow to the T the same song progression formulas fed to them by YouTube tutorials, then demand $60 for what is essentially 30 minutes of laziness that amounts to something very mediocre.

                  Don’t even get me started how every movie/TV show all feels just painfully “safe” and samey, I feel like a whole thread could be made for this (and maybe even already has–multiple times).

                  Yeah, your example and the movie industry examples are particularly annoying to me because it’s not teenagers lazily making beats on their laptop, it’s supposed champions of the culture with fancy degrees and accolades who have the nerve to still act so unknowably genius and smug when they are doing essentially just as little as the amateur teens on their laptops.

      • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        2 years ago

        Yes from what I’ve seen Lukashenko fights Western NGOs, protects nationalized industries, and ahh shucks I remember actually reading a really great breakdown of industry in Belarus that was really inspiring but I have no idea where I read it (probably GZD ngl)