My name is Muammar Gaddafi. I was killed by Obama and Clinton because I planned to introduce a gold-backed currency for all of Africa. This may surprise you, but I am writing to you from heaven. Let me tell you a bit about the country I served, Libya. Please tell me how my country has fared since my death. PS Did the Kurds ever get their Kurdistan?
1. There was no electricity bill in Libya; electricity was free for all its citizens. 2. There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya were state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law. 3. Having a home was considered a human right in Libya. 4. All newlyweds in Libya used to receive 60,000 dinar (£34,470) by the government to buy their first apartment, to help start up the family. 5. Education and medical treatments were free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83%.
6. If Libyans wanted to take up a farming career, they would have received farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms… all for free. 7. If Libyans could not find the education or medical facilities they needed, the government funded them to go abroad. For it was not only paid for, but they got a £1585/month for accommodation and car allowance. 8. If a Libyan bought a car, the government used to subsidise 50 percent of the price. 9. The price of petrol in Libya was £0.09 per litre. NINE PENCE!!!!! 10. Libya had no external debt and its reserves amounted to £103 billion -which are now frozen globally.
11. If a Libyan was unable to get employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession, as if he or she was employed, until employment was found. 12. A portion of every Libyan oil sale was credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens. 13. A mother who gave birth to a child received £3447. 14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya used to cost £0.10. TEN PENCE!!! 15. 25 percent of Libyans now have a university degree.
If his capitalist welfare state will buy me and my friends weapons and bombs and money then sign me the fuck up, dude
Ian Murphy
The Libyan economy and wasn't really in any condition to implement a proper socialist economy immediately either way. It needed time to industrialize and for the country build up its infrastructure up as well as capture its entire market before such a thing could be realized.
Christian Gutierrez
Yeah but Libya hadn't really come into its own in terms of capitalist development either, it was on track toward a national bourgeios state under Qaddafi until the US came in and helped the compradors win the fight. There's nowhere to go in terms of development if you have compradors in charge.
Easton Stewart
I'm so glad that NATO killed him and stole Libya's gold. Now they are finally a true socialist nation with a strong infrastructure and happy, healthy people.
Bentley Wood
The Islamic part in Islamic socialism was a mistake, it's exactly what got him sodomized with a bayonet
John Parker
Wait a second, after NATO killed Gaddafi and stole all of Libya's gold, they've been in a perpetual state of crisis and the only people who've gained from it are NATO (they stole the gold), American NGOs, and military contractors. Oops! Sorry, I almost believed NATO propaganda for a second.
Nathan Garcia
why not? it was plenty industrialized
yes it did. It just is not as rich as first world nations.
there was already a national bourgeois
Landon Wood
Kill yourself
Libya would have never turned as bad as it now is even if they continued welfarism ad infinitum. For fuck's sake they don't even have a government really.
Jaxson Nelson
No where did I say that Libya is better off bombed to shit. ANY capitalist country is better off as is than getting the Lybia treatment
Yeah it was a bunch of college liberals that beat him to death and implemented sharia
Jonathan Russell
Do you think I said it is better now than before? ANY capitalist country is better off now than it would be if it got the Libya treatment>>2850246
Grayson Scott
Woah dude… Gaddafi seems pretty based tbh. Even if he was a bit loopy in the head. IT JUST PROVES THAT WESTERN IMPERIALISM LITERALLY RUINS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES
Oliver Ortiz
This sounds like fascism
Elijah Gomez
None of this was true in any fascist state tho
Kayden Thompson
*cough* Germany *cough*
Jose King
lol what? The third reich had private banks, usury, homelessness, low wages and welfare cuts. Nazis were the first neolib privatisation enthusiasts, not socdems.
Jaxon Nguyen
Just like fascists, there's nothing 'crypto' about how capitalist they are lol lol, no it wasn't. Hitler promised he'd clamp down on the international bankers and financiers and eliminate usury when he needed to get popular and then immediately removed all the actual advocates of it like Feder as soon as he got into power, giving control of the economy to bankers like Schacht and ended up changing literally nothing except giving away the entire German gold and currency reserves to western banks in interest. Stop drinking the cool aid faggot, wages were literally suppressed for all workers, workers weren't allowed to organise for higher wages, working hours were extended, public services and state industries were sold dirt-cheap to the capitalists in exchange for donations to the party thanks to which corporate profits for ceos to stash abroad skyrocketed. Nazi germany was literally just a neoliberal playground for corporations which went to war because it was about to go bankrupt after allowing capitalists to plunder the economy and immiserate the german people.
That pic is irrelevant Germany currency didn't work as straight forward as that.
fascism is a turd position between capitalism and communism
last post was deleted but international bankers were being phased out. Germany was implementing its own currency based of work time.
low wages were a result of Germany encouraging trading and bartering between people so they didn't need a banker middle man. Workers did organize for higher wages it was called the NSDAP work hours were extended to rebuild the economy and war effort.
lol no it was a heavily state socialist nation(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Chase Nelson
More proof you can lead a fascist to facts but you can't make him think
Ethan Bell
Isn't Qaddafi's son buddy buddy with Tony Blair?
Mason Gonzalez
but you haven't contested anything I said
Bentley Hernandez
You got btfo and then just handwaved it away as "irrelevant." You're either a high schooler or a retard or both considering you're defending the utter failure that was Nazi Germany.
Jose Lopez
Apparently, tho I'm not sure how deep their friendship is
