Questions About Other Countries' Politics that You Were Too Afraid To Ask

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Why do NUPES/Die Linke parties that hate the US for being a hypercapitalist imperalist power without government-run healthcare like Russia, a hypercapitalist imperialist power without government-run healthcare?

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Apparently Italy doesn't have a minimum wage? Is this common in southern Europe?

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Why do NUPES/Die Linke parties that hate the US for being a hypercapitalist imperalist power without government-run healthcare like Russia, a hypercapitalist imperialist power without government-run healthcare?

Russia is undoubtedly imperialist, but it is not “hyper capitalist” (which is a dumb term to use to begin with, but certainly not true of Russia), and it does have government run healthcare. As does the United States, incidentally.

55% of Russian wealth is controlled by the top 1%. 85% is controlled by the top 10%.

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Why do NUPES/Die Linke parties that hate the US for being a hypercapitalist imperalist power without government-run healthcare like Russia, a hypercapitalist imperialist power without government-run healthcare?

Russia is undoubtedly imperialist, but it is not “hyper capitalist” (which is a dumb term to use to begin with, but certainly not true of Russia), and it does have government run healthcare. As does the United States, incidentally.

55% of Russian wealth is controlled by the top 1%. 85% is controlled by the top 10%.

I’m not sure where you got your data from, but Russia’s GINI is less than the United States’ and is only marginally higher than the UK’s.

The general distribution of Russia's wealth doesn't fit with traditional models.

1)- Lots of oligarch wealth is stashed away/secret
2)- The super rich (top 1000 or so) control much more, so much of the top 5-10% actually has  a lot less.

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Why do NUPES/Die Linke parties that hate the US for being a hypercapitalist imperalist power without government-run healthcare like Russia, a hypercapitalist imperialist power without government-run healthcare?

Describing Russia as hypercapitalist is an absurdly stupid statement.

Why do NUPES/Die Linke parties that hate the US for being a hypercapitalist imperalist power without government-run healthcare like Russia, a hypercapitalist imperialist power without government-run healthcare?

Russia is undoubtedly imperialist, but it is not “hyper capitalist” (which is a dumb term to use to begin with, but certainly not true of Russia), and it does have government run healthcare. As does the United States, incidentally.

55% of Russian wealth is controlled by the top 1%. 85% is controlled by the top 10%.

I was not aware that the definition of capitalism is "% of 'wealth controlled' by the 1%." By this standard, I guess Maoist China and Bourbon France were both "hypercapitalist" too. Thank you very much for this thoughtful analysis. You do real credit to us all with your presence.

I don't know why a disagreement over a single word is cause for wanting me kicked off the forum. Seems a bit much.