i live in luxembourg and am part of the local communist party but i frequently ask myself if a tiny landlocked nation even could be socialist (imagining that a revolution somehow happened) because we are surrounded by european core countries like germany and france which build the center of the neoliberal european union and they would never let this country turn socialist. In answer to this they with the help of the US would most certainly invade Luxembourg. Independence would also be a problem, we are completely dependent on trade with other countries, mostly our western neighbors and their finance which would (IF the invasion failed) sanction us. In answer, if Luxembourg turned socialist it would be a misery for the poeple, not because of the socialism, but because of our “allies” attacking and sanctioning us.
Pardon the possibly insensitive question, but what does Luxembourg even do other than hide the monarchists of Europe and host the European Central Bank?
To be fair the only experience I have with Luxembourgers is in the form of a monarchist aristocrat type who goes to Vienna operas and probably sleeps in a bed of banknotes.
I agree that tiny nations surrounded by larger capitalist nations will be the last to turn socialist for the reasons you suggest.
They have free public transport
not much to be honest. We’re essentially just a western European hub for crime and bribery. We have some Industry like the dairy industry and we once had a lot of Iron mining going on but know we’re just populated by shady Banks
Do they host the European Central Bank? I thought that was in Frankfurt
You’re correct, for whatever reason I thought that the ECB used to be in Frankfurt and moved to Luxembourg, but it just moved to a new building in Frankfurt.