National Socialism just assumes that your domestic socialists will be less retarded than international socialists. Which ignores the fundamental issue that the perverse incentives of collectivism always fail.
I see what you mean, that being said I'm not convinced collectivism always fail, really not. If the US didn't fight the USSR I'm pretty sure it would have taken over the world, no other power was strong enough to stop them back then. And if the US won, it's not thx to its rugged individualism...
Recent history is mostly the visible part of hidden games of power... Don't forget that.
Sparta lasted for about 1000 years, and it was quite collectivist.
The USSR fell largely due to internal economic issues. Western schools do an absolutely shit job of covering this, largely because Western academics cant read the primary sources in Russian. The short version is that the Soviet budget was so secret only a few people in the country were allowed to see it, because it showed that titanic holes in it were being filled by looting the bank accounts of its citizens. E.g. if your bank statement showed a thousand rubles in your bank account...sure, the statement said that. But it was all spent by the government so by the time the USSR fell it was more like 5 rubles. And not even inflation effery like Western nations do - straight up spent. This made the USSR a house of cards that didnt actually have any savings to backstop emergencies...like the Chernobyl nuclear plant failing. The real disaster there was two-fold: the Soviets had just spent billions of rubles they didnt have on it with no alternate power source available, and their only domestic social orgs not under direct government control were environmentalist groups.
They fostered these environmentalist groups for decades for the sane reason they did so in the West - the watermelons are useful idiots. Until Chernobyl happened, and suddenly they were up to their eyeballs in state-approved protestors who were well organized due to decades of formal state support. And what was the #1 enemy of these protestors all of a sudden? The collectivist government which left them with no power, economic collapse, no way to fix it, and radiation drifting into large cities. Cue the USSR falling over because it could no longer paper over its fuckups.
The USSR largely failed because of oil price collapse, not because of "internal economic issues."
https://www.rbth.com/history/331825-saudi-arabia-oil-crisis-ussr-collapse
>The Saudi sheiks prospered and quickly gained enormous wealth. This situation was also highly beneficial for the USSR, which increased its oil and natural gas extraction and quickly became one of the world’s leading oil and gas producers: oil and gas income now made up more than half of the national income. Meanwhile, in the US, unemployment rates doubled, and GDP dropped by 6%. But the United States was preparing a counter move by persuading Saudia Arabia to act in US interests. How the US won the Cold War ... Shortly after that in 1986, William Casey, then Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, went to Saudi Arabia. According to Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser Richard Allen, Casey negotiated with King Fahd what was to occur next. For the six previous years, the Saudi government has been restraining oil prices, sharply decreasing their petroleum extraction; but after Casey returned, in September 1985, Saudi Arabia started rapidly increasing its extraction – even though the prices were still low! Swift drop In four months, Saudi extraction rose from two million to 10 million barrels a day, and prices plummeted from $32 a barrel to $10. For the USSR’s economy - already accustomed to exorbitant incomes from its oil, this was a death blow. in 1986 alone, the USSR lost more than $20 billion (approximately 7.5% of the USSR’s annual income), and it already had a budget deficit.
That's the actual reason
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