Ba’athism is not the socialism you have in mind.
It goes without saying Hexbear and Lemmygrad and .ml have funny ideas about what their simp nations are like, though.
Are they actually defending Assad’s regime, torture and all?
They’re not, they are criticizing that and having a more nuanced conversation about the role of capitalism in this situation.
That user is just obsessed with them. Even if they clearly have never been in those communities to see for themselves
Yes. They just choose to believe that stuff never actually happened, and all evidence must be fabricated. They might sprinkle in “it must have been justified”, if they’re really cornered.
Basically, it’s flat Earth theory for geopolitics, the point is believing the opposite of what everyone else does. The communist stuff is just decoration on top.
How long until Syria gets some fancy new oil wells / USA military bases?
Shock therapy incoming in 3…2…1…
But even that is better than war, I guess, what state were the social services in?
Bashar abolished any resemblance of social security in Syria before the war, it’s one of the main reasons why the regime destabilised. At first people thought “new guy, hopefully less torture and more flexible and vibrant economy”, what they got was just as much if not more torture, and economical conditions where you could go without roof and food. He broke the social contract.
I very much doubt the current government is thinking about abolishing state food and housing programmes, more like the opposite: Both because of popular demand and because Islam talks at length about taking care of the poor. This is about privatising soap factories.
Assad already enacted neoliberal reforms in the 2000s.
An unfortunate decision, but I suppose they have no choice if they want to attract foreign investment. I just hope this doesn’t result in Syrians being serfs to foreign interests as we see in subsaharan Africa.
