1. Propaganda y la Confusión entre Socialismo y Comunismo.
La retórica anticomunista de la Guerra Fría sigue envenenando el discurso político, llevando a la confusión entre socialismo, comunismo y socialdemocracia, especialmente entre las generaciones que no vivieron esa época y que ahora ven el capitalismo de manera negativa.
- The cold war has melted usians brains until we see literally anything left of reganite authoritarian austerity capitalism as the same as marxist leninism.
- Socialism was conflated with communism all through the cold war. Quite a lot of people never figured out there are some significant differences between the two.
- Its immense propaganda. The cold war ended decades ago but the fallout of the demonization of anything beneficial to the working class or social safety nets still poisons the well of politics in this country.
- I dont fear the words but even i still make cold war jokes like we find something i dont like and i say, you know who loves this shit? commies.
- For 4 decades, cold war provided a simple good-vs-evil axis consolidating the association between freedom, american-ness, free-enterprise capitalism.
2. El Debate sobre la Victoria y la Continuidad del Conflicto.
A pesar del colapso de la URSS en 1991, existe un fuerte debate sobre si Occidente realmente ganó la Guerra Fría. Muchos argumentan que el conflicto nunca terminó, sino que simplemente cambió de táctica, permitiendo que Rusia ejerciera una influencia desestabilizadora en la política occidental.
- The capitalists won the cold war. We, the working class, lost.
- Russia won the cold war.
- We have let putin win the cold war. Convince me we won? it was not over in the 90s .
- The soviet union may have collapsed in 1991 but they are winning the cold war. Everyone thought thats it, theyre done but they never stopped and the west sleep walked right into this nightmare.
- Regan tripled the debt to end the cold war. Just flat out spent the ussr to lead to their end.
- The cold war never ended. Putin changed the tactics has been fighting it for decades under the radar and we are losing.
3. La Definición y Obsolescencia del Término 'Tercer Mundo'.
El término "Tercer Mundo" es un vestigio de la Guerra Fría, originalmente utilizado para describir a las naciones que no estaban alineadas con el bloque capitalista (Primer Mundo) ni con el bloque comunista (Segundo Mundo). Su uso actual como sinónimo de pobreza o subdesarrollo es considerado obsoleto y peyorativo.
- I love that the term third world country was created to describe the way non-affiliated countries during the cold war neither capitalist nor communist allied were ignored, and we took that to mean broke ass nations.
- The term third world originated during the cold war to describe nations not aligned with the us-led first world or the soviet-led second world.
- Friendly reminder that 3rd world country has no functional definition as of the end of the cold war, and is a dog-whistle.
- The term 3rd world country is obsolete, it goes back to the cold war it was coined because america was considered a 1st world country, ussr a 2nd world country other countries 3rd world.
4. El Impacto en las Nuevas Generaciones y la Percepción del Capitalismo.
Las generaciones más jóvenes, nacidas después del colapso de la URSS, no tienen el miedo visceral a las palabras "socialismo" o "comunismo" que tenían sus predecesores. En cambio, su visión negativa del capitalismo se alimenta de las dificultades económicas contemporáneas, como la vivienda y la atención médica.
- Im not sure what the numbers are but there are millions of people who did not come of age amidst the cold war so words like communist and socialist dont scare us.
- Youre old enough to have had your brain cooked by cold war propaganda, but some of us younger people have only lived in a time of economic hardship. You really shouldnt be surprised so many of us would prefer socialism over capitalism.
- Capitalism is viewed increasingly negatively, socialism increasingly positively. The cold war frame is basically gone.
- Genz favor socialism compared to other generations,more positively than capitalism,fueled by factors of high costs for housing healthcare, economic anxieties,theres perception capitalism fails to deliver post-war social contract,pensions affordable housing.