Timeline for How important were social justice issues in dissident circles in the late USSR?
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| Mar 18, 2022 at 15:52 | comment | added | Ne Mo | No they aren't pro market. Most people, and that includes Soviet era dissidents - do not have a coherent economic position, to use your words. The point is not that everyone wants a reasonable material quality of life, but that dissidents were protesting partly because they didn't have that quality of life. There were no equivalents to US libertarians in Russia at the time - in every country where they exist they're a tiny minority -including the USA. But they're influential because they boast a few billionaires. | |
| Mar 18, 2022 at 13:53 | comment | added | Greg | Are we talking about dissidents FROM USSR or TO?“dissident circles in late USSR” means latter, but I am not sure if there was any circles of dissidents for obvious reasons | |
| Mar 18, 2022 at 3:09 | answer | added | Zeus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 18, 2022 at 0:23 | comment | added | Zeus | @NeMo, everyone wanted 'shoes that fit': this is not something that distinguishes dissidents. Besides, plenty of people are 'pro-market' 'in a philosophical sense', perhaps even majority. But again, this is not something that defined dissidents in the USSR: they rarely had a coherent economic position. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 15:33 | comment | added | sds | The subject refers to "social justice" (which these days in the USA usually refers to "equality of outcome by race/sex") while the body seems to be talking about economic inequality in general. Either way, soviet dissidents were mostly concerned with individual human rights, rather than grand sociological issues. There were exceptions though... | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 12:47 | comment | added | Ne Mo | Very few people are 'pro-market' in a philosophical sense. Aside from issues of civil rights, dissidents wanted e.g. shoes that fit, not to have to queue to buy food that tasted terrible, and to live in a house that wasn't shared with 20 other people. The arrival of the free market would, in the beginning at least, make most of these problems even worse. But that's a different story... | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 8:48 | comment | added | Jan | It was certainly an issue in East Germany, but then the issue might have been less about inequality itself and more about hypocrisy and the distance between rulers and ruled? | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 8:25 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 8:25 | comment | added | MCW♦ | What preliminary research have you done?, and please cite all assertions; in my years of Soviet studies, dissidents were rarely if ever portrayed as pro-democracy. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 8:16 | comment | added | Ne Mo | What literature are you talking about? Of course one can be pro Dennis democracy and pro greater economic equality. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 5:00 | history | asked | aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |