Is this guy cool? Does he have any capacity to spread socialism to Sri Lanka? What’s the current state of politics in the country?

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    They been communist for awhile (ostensibly anyway? Idk cursory search on Wikipedia said since the 70s or so). People used to joke about how everyone always forgets they’re aes bc they never get brought lol

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      You might be thinking of Nepal.

      Sri Lankan politics are messier than you’d believe. I’m not an expert but you have at least one political dynasty, power changing hands between people with 3 different last names for 30 years, a recent civil war along ethnic lines, a failed revolution at the end of the Cold War, a wrecked economy with massive amounts of debt that culminates in the popular uprising 2 years ago that chased out the sitting president and his brother.

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          7 months ago

          Nepal is the country that overthrew their monarchy in the 2000s under an alliance of largely MLs and MLMs.

          Laos is the country that has been ruled by a ML party since 1975.

          Sri Lanka doesn’t really have any history in common with either of these in the last century, it’s just as far from each as they are from each other. Any political overlapping thread with Nepal was over 100 years ago, and small.