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1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 16:28:39 UTC Danyl Strype
   @stevewood @angle examle: Reagan/ Bush/ Clinton, Thatcher/ Blair, Mnangagwa, and in my country, Lange/ Douglas and all government since, 
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 05:20:51 UTC Danyl Strype
     @angle @stevewood Zimbabwe is run by ethno-nationalists. It's only "communist" in the pejorative sense meaning "a bit like the USSR" ...
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 05:25:00 UTC Danyl Strype

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     @angle @stevewood ... their economic policy went from state socialism (Keynsian not USSR style) in the 80s to neo-liberalism in the 90s
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 05:26:29 UTC Danyl Strype

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     @angle @stevewood ... so even the argument that it was like the USSR is drawing a long bow, but it is comparable to contemporary Russia now
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 14:43:11 UTC Danyl Strype
     @stevewood @angle Zimbabwe *was* a (Keynsian) socialist country in the 80s. Like Russia now, it hasn't been since the end of the 80s.
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 14:45:08 UTC Danyl Strype

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     @angle @stevewood like most of the world Zimbabwe's government didn't need to be overthrown for the economy to be acquired by global capital
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 14:47:17 UTC Danyl Strype

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     @angle @stevewood "democratic" elections are a better method (one you've bought control of all the major parties), provokes less resistance
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 16:31:35 UTC Danyl Strype

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     @angle @stevewood they all either engineered or maintained neo-liberal coups, enacting policies they never campaigned on during elections