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3 days agoIn my country the school’s history book cites Solzhenitsyn’s estimate of 66 million dead in the gulag. We also had to learn by heart the theories of Arendt and Orwell.
All the books that we were required to read said that “Revolution bad, reform good” or “The world is literally worse after the revolution”, it’s a joke
I think I’ve seen a Twitter post about new Syria’s government abandoning “state-led development” and turning to neoliberalism. If that’s the case then they’re absolutely fucked