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 04 Dec 2009, 02:34
what's the situation in burma at the present? are they still following burmese road to socialism and how successful it was and was it even marxist in nature? what stance should we take towards the democracy league and BCP?
any other information is welcomed, since i dont know much about the situation in the country at the present.  Jugoslavija je bleda slika premrzlega partizana zato je njeno ljudstvo navajeno trpeti zato je njeno ljudstvo pripravljeno umreti. -Via Ofenziva Forum Rules
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 10 Oct 2007, 15:55 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Party Member 04 Dec 2009, 02:43
Burma aka Myanmar is just a dictatorship run by elite army officers. They're not socialist it's just propaganda. I haven't ever recall reading of aid from the USSR or China.
We have beaten you to the moon, but you have beaten us in sausage making.- Nikita Khrushchev
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Party Member 11 Sep 2010, 04:33
Dosent Burma have a socialist economy ?
 "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez 11 Sep 2010, 04:55
More like slavery.
11 Sep 2010, 06:10
Myanmar is no longer following their Road to Socialism, that was abandoned when the current regime rose to power.
The moment one accepts the notion of 'totalitarianism', one is firmly locked within the liberal-democratic horizon. - Slavoj Žižek
11 Sep 2010, 20:21
Soviet192491 wrote: They currently receive aid from China to aid their increasingly private-sectored economy, albeit one of the most regulated in Asia after North Korea. Even though the Burmese Way to Socialism seems to be an abject failure, it at least it kept Burma out of the Cold War problems that plagued South-East Asia. 16 Dec 2019, 21:24
"Burmese way to socialism" in 1962-1988 was actually the exterior of the ideology that the military regime had raised was. This was just a way of justification for the policy of nationalisation of every business by Ne Win, which meant that he simply stole the inventor (and pass it to his folks in military) and never compensated the rightful owners who happened to be plain folks trying to eke out a living.
However, now nobody scholars agree that Burma's military government really conducted socialism policy in every aspect. They just exploited 'Socialism' to disguise their extreme isolation economy policy which made possible to extend their regimes. Ne win and the others from the 30 Comrades were more fascinated by the Japanese who were Fascists and Nationalists during WWII, meaning that if the Germans had been around, they would have been licking German boots. And in fact, till to this day the Burmese Armed Forces and their lackeys behave as if they are above the common people. I would say it was a "Militarized" economy which destroyed the country |
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