Indeed it is a tragedy unfolding in front of us. I really can understand your wrath concerning socialist or communist systems, however what made the people accept such ideas in the first place? I guess neoliberalism didn' care much about the common man. When A.Humboldt visited your country en 1799 and visited the slave market, he was not only shocked by its view, he also understood the much bigger picture of the capitalist world brought to America by the Europeans.
I really wish that after the time of chaos your country will build a society which serves all people.
Thanks for your good desires, my dear friend.
Well I think there are many factors in our acceptance of such ideas, and as I said, ignorance is a big big one. I can see that clearly in my country, because here the same illness is greatly developed:
Perhaps the best example is the problem of the actual economic crisis: The government holds an intense propaganda everyday, at each hour, through all channels, saying that this problem is because of a economic war. So, everything that happens here is for the mythical everlasting capitalist devil that hates the poor and won't allow the "natural equality".
But, in fact, this crisis has been caused by the State itself, that decided to control every little aspect of economy, taking away step by step all our freedoms, and nullifying all the incentives that any person could have to keep working, sustaining the enterprises that produced the goods we need.
In consequence, most of the important fabrics and corporations fell, most of the entrepreneurs took their stuffs and went away, and now we don't have the goods, the food, all the things we need to live humanly.
In spite of that, every leftist keeps claiming the same eternal propaganda, the same story that drove us to this point. It's ignorance, it's pride...
I was part of them. I was deeply ignorant about the real dynamics of the world... and they wanted to keep me ignorant. Fortunately I always have the courage to question my own beliefs, to clean my thoughts from time to time.
They won't question themselves the same way, because socialism is their religion. You cannot allow doubts for your religion... not outwardly, but most important, you cannot allow doubts in your own heart. That's how fanaticism works.
I know exactly what you are talking about. 30 years ago "we"celebrated the last birthday of the former GDR, actually, it was a funeral. The good comrades lived in an ideological bubble, unpenetrable by reality. But it doesn't mean that every aspect of their ideology was wrong, as the great social-democrats R.Luxemburg and K. Liebknecht were right to fight capitalism in its most terrible forms. And believe me, when Western Germany swallowed the Eastern part, it was not a proof for the victory of the capitalist ideology. But that is already another story.
Your state will collapse as other before did. Hopfully, something better will evolve.
Hopefully. If not, our first duty will still be to stay strong, to resist. As a Venezuelan poet once said: I want to die standing, as trees die.