nice projections, yet I never said external trade is bad nor that markets are literally Hitler, for an example Cuba today has quite a large market sector and even the DPRK yet this is due to having no larger socialist industrial base, like the USSR was in the past. But the reality was that at the time the USSR exported a large amount of it's production to the socialist bloc so it would advance economically. Dubceks actions weren't opportunistic because he wanted trade, they were opportunistic because he was undermining the wider socialist bloc only so he could trade with Germany. The issues in the Czechslovak economy themselves came from the revisionist economic policies that Hruschev pressured the rest of the eastern bloc into, and the measures undertaken by Dubcek was nothing but populism. He wanted a quick fix to the issues of the socialist system by liberalizing his economy and by liberalizing the state, but we have seen historically that this in the long term has lead to a downpour of living standards and the restoration of capitalism. Do you think the Czech and the Slovaks are better off now than they were then? That must be why there is such rampant prostitution and the sex industry in Czechia, yet the result of Dubcheks liberalization are what we see today in these countries as the velvet revolution is his legacy, and he supported the transition to capitalism to his death. It is the same how the Slovenians in Yugoslavia wanted autonomy so they could trade with Germany, then cried oppression when the rest of the commonwealth wouldn't have it and broke off. Always look at the economic root of every political decision and you will find your answer. It is not like Dubcek was implementing worker self management so that you can argue he was giving people muh freedoms :DDDD he was simply extending the right to open private property. And what happens then? the richest in society, who were the nomenklatura, overtake the factories, some craftsmen fullfil their petty-bourgeois ambitions and open up little shops, and you open up your country for foreign investment so large foreign capital can exploit your workers. This "liberalization" was the economic enslavement of workers to the institution of private property, even the state production was turned around into the production of consumer goods simply because it is more profitable. I shit on your Dubchek and on his rainbow colored privatization, he was only Sloba with a smiling face, and I piss on you for thinking I support Brezhnevs Bukharinism, like I have not read Cockshott.
Dubcek'ists / Eurocoms
pic very related, cafe loafers should be rehabilitated not by meds your psychologist prescribed (you), but by hard work at factory or in the field
Yes, CCCP was most important trade partner for ČSSR, but where is an argument?
Breaking news! Dubček sacrificed socialism for deodorants and jeans!
One would expect that people's democracy would get some populist politicians at least once a while.
Shame that we won't see how would it turn out in state where such important decision have to get approval of general public, especially when ">lel, gommie, gorilions" would simply not be an argument.
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Since when is breaking a state (as Slovenians wanted to) same as bettering foreign relation by sovereign state?
What should have he done? Made muh coops? And yes, being able to publicly criticize goverment is a valuable freedom, don't tell me you never done that.
But that was literally the reality before he got in power. "most equal" party members and their friends got comfy leading positions in managing factories, and protesting against that resulted into police intervention.
Do you realize that saying that publicly could give you really hard time withou Dubček's reforms? If you'd have strong political opinions you could easily loose privilege of training with weapon and your consript years would be longer, consisting of doing hard labour and you could be denied university education. Sure, working with shovel or in factory didn't mean horrible working conditions, but it was not preferable.
tl;dr: You are nothing more than autistically screeching reactionary ignoring the fact that socialist states failed because nomenklatura realized capitalism would offer them comfy lives without responsibilities and people were not given enough legislative power to maintain the revolution.
Read Critique of the Gotha Programme.
Breznev was weak capitalist faggot. They should have immediately recognised filthy imperialist agents and send them to gulags.