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I Live in a western (sort of) microstate. No true Leftist party to vote or support. (lemmygrad.ml)

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So here is my dilemma. We import all food and goods, too small for agriculture. Our main economy is built on financial services and tourism mostly. Our social safety net and most of our let's say, liberal left leaning policies are being eroded as time goes by, which is not ideal, but is still better than nothing I guess.

However, since we trade our service based economy for essentially everything else, how does socialism help a nation so dependent on the world around it being capitalist to survive?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What are you? Singapore?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

To avoid confusion I'll say it -Gibraltar.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't make any comments guessing it was Gibraltar, but honestly I had a suspicion it was Gibraltar. I would recommend that you look into urban agriculture, generally keep reading theory and reading local history and news and interacting with your local environment, and learning about regions similar to Gibraltar. Gibraltar may have virtually no industry now, but I wouldn't be so sure that this will always be the case. A fun game you might want to try is to take something you know to be true, imagining that it's somehow become the opposite, setting a time frame for this change, and then trying to imagine how this change came to be.

By the way, were you worried that mentioning you were from Gibraltar would trigger a discussion about the conflict surrounding Gibraltar's status? I definitely have semi-informed things to say about that topic, but I don't know if now's the right time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"By the way, were you worried that mentioning you were from Gibraltar would trigger a discussion about the conflict surrounding Gibraltar's status?"

Yes. Pretty sensitive issue for us. If you like to know more about our views, you are welcome to ask.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It seems a rare opportunity, so yes, I would like to know from the horse's mouth as it were.

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