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>even Zizek says this is a myth
Žižek is a shitty "Marxist" who praised Titoism, worked with self-proclaimed liberal democrats in Yugoslavia, and has a philosophy which is more obscurantist than materialist.
>The guy who built 700,000 pointless bunkers when the country could barely feed itself?
Albania became self-sufficient in grain during the same time it was building said bunkers, which were not "pointless" if you take into account the country's precarious geopolitical situation and the defense doctrine it relied on, which was based on arming the whole people.
>Anywhere that had a stable government during that time did so
The capitalist countries that achieved such development did so on the basis of an infusion of American "aid," the carrying out of some degree of land reform under the pressure of communist-led revolts (as in Taiwan and South Korea), etc., and even then in terms of what sort of society was created, there's an obvious difference between Albania and the rest of the world at that time.
>I supposed to failed to use this comparison because of China's 'revisionism'?
Let's try a different comparison. To quote one author, "the standard of living of the lowest-paid stratum of the Albanian working people is now [1988] higher than that of the lowest-paid stratum of the British working class. But, of course, comparison with other countries with a long history of developed industry, are not really relevant to the Albanian workers. For them, the relevant question is: has the standard of living improved and will it continue to improve?" (Perspectives on Albania, 1992, p. 135.)
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