• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Can you point to another country taking such a extreme turn to the right while being in similar situation?

      While that isn’t what I was talking about, Weimer Germany is the canonical example of a similar situation, but there are many examples.

      What I was talking about is the historical record of neoliberal shock therapies, which Naomi Klein documented well.

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      Shock therapy in Russia after USSR breaking up, maybe?

      That was more extreme, since it was not a transition from left-wing liberal democracy to right-wing liberal democracy, but from bureaucratic planned economy to a pretense at liberal democracy.

      Still some examples may apply.

      Say, if things state-owned or state-managed in Argentina now get privatized, one can look at the specific mechanism and whether it’ll be similar to what happened in Russia.