We all know that anti-communism is at the core of fascism. This short thread proposes an interesting corrolary: much of the anti-Soviet attitude found in formerly socialist Eastern European countries, and ultimately perhaps even the motivation of the significant section of the population that did not stand to gain materially yet still supported the restoration of capitalism and the fracturing of the USSR is resentment at having been excluded from the West’s white supremacist global hegemony. This infatuation with the supposed “superiority” of the West, the internalized inferiority complex and desire to be included among the “white” Europeans as opposer to the “inferior, barbaric asiatics” is deeply embedded in the collective consciousness of especially countries like Poland, Ukraine and the Baltics, but also Romania and much of the Balkans.
The author of the thread cites Georgia as an example with which they are personally familiar, and i can only confirm that i have experienced the same attitudes and self-hatred among Romanians.
Would others who have experience with the cultural attitudes of these countries agree with this thesis?
I’d suggest, following my other comment, that as soon as capitalism was reintroduced, there was no other future except a white supremacist, racist future.
The next time, the socialists just need to keep power. A cultural revolution of some kind might speed up the process. But the shift in material conditions by which the comfort of ‘white’ people does not rely on the super exploitation of ‘black’ people will do for more than half the struggle.
Mostly yeah. When i analyze what went wrong, even in the revisionist times, i get “more time was needed” very often, since improvement was visible.