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is "soviet nostalgia" an actually viable tool for socialist agitation in former eastern bloc states, what are your thoughts on it and the organisations which rely on it? (hexbear.net)
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my opinionwhen you look at the political scene in eastern europe, the primary way communist parties try to gain support is to appeal to disaffected 40-60'ish people with some form or another of "ostalgie" or "soviet nostalgia". there's nothing principally wrong with it, but i feel it is way too oriented towards the past instead of the future. "look what we had" is good for some but ultimately it isn't enough to build movements. you see communist parties who still refuse to recognise the collapse of the ussr.

my gripe with this isn't that i disagree with them ideologically or morally, as the liberals do, the problem is the union is definitively gone. there is no hope of restoring it, there hasn't been for nearly 40 years. we need to start from the beginning again, the old structures have been fully dismantled and the union will not return, not in the next few decades.

this is ignoring the fact that this is really only appealing to.. well.. 50 to 70 year olds. we should focus our agitprop and work towards the youth of our countries instead of a group of people who ultimately will go "extinct" soon.

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[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why not, but then again, this is only good for a population that is decreasing with time aka pensioners.

Most East European parties are smart enough to maintain a system of pension to satisfy this portion of the electoral population (see Fico's ''socialist party'', Orban's Party, Serbian progressive party and Serbian ''socialist'' party).

If you are going to sell this to the GenX, it's not going to happen since they were the one who toppled the regime.

If you are selling this to the youth (if they didn't left already), the soviet experience is so abstract that it's useless.