Leo, If America Is at Peak Orange, Can Democrats Still Push for Economic Populism?

[Daniel Balan]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

It can be Green too.

Remember that Green is built atop Orange. Green is not a rejection of Orange. A Green society will have capitalist businesses and industry.

Hi @Leo Gura, regarding the heavy industry of the Soviet Union and its socialist buffer states in eastern Europe like(Poland, Hungary, Romania etc) why it all collapsed together with the whole communist regimes? The Soviet Union and Romania had thousands of heavy industry factories like steel and coal etc, why they all collapsed together with the regime? Why 90% of these factories were decommissioned and left to rot once the communism collapsed? 

Here there are conspiracy theories that the west sabotaged them with insiders thus making the factories obsolete so that eastern Europe must be dependent on the west and buy heavy industrial goods from the west rather than producing those heavy industry goods at home. To me this is bullshit. I want to hear what are your thoughts on this matter and how you view this situation. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Daniel Balan

[Leo Gura]

57 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

regarding the heavy industry of the Soviet Union and its socialist buffer states in eastern Europe like(Poland, Hungary, Romania etc) why it all collapsed together with the whole communist regimes? The Soviet Union and Romania had thousands of heavy industry factories like steel and coal etc, why they all collapsed together with the regime? Why 90% of these factories were decommissioned and left to rot once the communism collapsed? 

Because communist management is so inefficent that they could not compete with capitalist industry.

No conspiracy necessary for incompetence, stupidity, and corruption.