fire86743

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[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Maoists are cancer.

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

To me it's just a different form of colonization.

Quite hilariously ironic given the context here

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably targeted towards boomers who still get panic attacks about the USSR.

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Why do libs seriously believe that Russia is still communist?

Have they been living under a rock for over thirty years?

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago

Basically, NATO colonialism is good but BRICS "colonialism" is bad.

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago

What's so bad about this guy? He's just adding new country suggestions for HoI4 TNO. /s

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Guy thinks colonialism (or, in this case, "colonialism") is bad but unironically thinks the USA is part of the "free world".

 

This is in the Breadtube community even though it was made by a based tankie.

 

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

NATO is a joke

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Legit the ideology of conservatives, libertarians, and ancaps.

Those guys literally hate communism more than fascism.

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Rightists be like: "Socialism is whatever I don't like"

[–] fire86743@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

I'm an anarchist.

Makes sense that an anarchist would unironically believe this.

Lenin coined the term state capitalism,

It is true that Lenin considered his own experiment state capitalist, this was referring to the New Economic Policy he set up. This, however, was meant to pave the way for a more advanced form of socialism. In other words, it was taking one step back to take two steps forward.

Why was this done? Socialism requires an industrialized society. Tsarist Russia was barely this, it was mostly a semi-feudal, agrarian nation. How do you get industrialization? Capitalism. Many socialists in Russia at the time agreed that their country was not ready for socialism and needed a period of capitalism in order to develop the country.

This isn't some random new thing they came up with, this is basic Marxism. You don't go to a socialist or communist society instantly, it gradually develops and it will have traits of previous modes of production for a while.

In other words, the NEP was put in place in order to help develop the country. Otherwise, they could not have a fully socialist society without most of the population remaining in poverty. Even with the capitalist mode of production in place, the state remained a significant part of the economy, millions of people were taught to read and write, they were guaranteed employment, they had access to healthcare, and many other things that would not be possible in a fully capitalist society.

replacing private ownership of the means with a new class hierarchy in the form of an inequitable and unjust bureaucratic state apparatus

The Soviet state was structured around the Soviets, or worker's councils, where workers would vote for delegates to represent them in regional councils, who would vote for representatives in national councils, including the highest council: the Supreme Soviet. This council had the supreme legislative power in the country, not any leader or party. This meant that the state apparatus that you are talking about was in the control of none other than the working people themselves. How inequitable and unjust was that?

For more information, I would recommend reading Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan.

No state has ever liberated the working class.

How is giving the working class supreme political power not liberating them? This supreme political power was used to feed, educate, employ, house, and take care of the working people. How many anarchist societies have achieved that?

 

Here in the USA, Trumpists are very hostile towards immigrants coming from the Mexican border to the point where they infamously proposed to build a wall. The Biden administration is better in-name only, and has kept the concentration camps at the border.

Why is there so much hatred toward these immigrants? What is the material cause of this?

 

Because if you spend enough time on the internet, especially the Western side, you start to hear voices of people who oppose their governments and not enough from those who support it.

Even many who are supportive tend to say that their government is authoritarian.

 

I find it so disturbing and unnerving how, in famines that occurred in the socialist world, some people were in such an extreme situation that they had to resort to eating their own family members and friends. In particular, I heard this occurred during the Great Leap Forward, and the Soviet famines of the 1920s and 1930s.

What caused this to happen?

 

Best take on anarchists I've seen.

 

Our community is rather small and it cannot completely express the views of the millions of Marxist-Leninists worldwide. There has to be something a lot more than just this community.

So what are the largest Marxist-Leninist internet forums, besides this one? I know for sure that they are either going to be non-English speaking or consist of non-native English speakers from non-English speaking countries, for the simple reason that Marxism-Leninism is much more popular outside of the English-speaking world, especially in China.

I would prefer to see some English-speaking communities as that is really the only language I speak, but then again, I can just use imperfect machine translation to translate other languages. I believe some other comrades would benefit from seeing these communities as well!

 

Me personally, I find the EZLN fascinating. (if there is anything bad about them, let me know because I do not know much bad things about them)

They are one of the few movements that anarchists praise that I actually think are based, although the Zapatistas have told westerners to stop calling them anarchists, communists, or anything else.

They also fight against drug cartels and seem to have created one of the most stable territories in the Chiapas region.

However, they are too small to do anything big like overthrowing the Mexican government. They would be crushed quickly.

Give me your thoughts on the EZLN and/or, as the title suggests, any non-ML movements that you support.

 

It was really annoying back when I was a rightist but it's even more frustrating now that I am a Marxist-Leninist that so-called "leftists" denounce pretty much every single successful socialist experience in history.

 

In case you don't know, Travis King is an American soldier who just recently fled to North Korea and the news here has been talking about him constantly.

 

I know things were really bad in 1989, but what made it so bad that people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments?

 

Go on youtube and search about Disney's latest failure Elemental and you get all these insane videos about "Woke Disney" made by people who talk exclusively about the "woke mob".

Ever heard of Yellowflash, Clownfish TV, and those other reactionaries? I first heard about them during the Vic Mignogna drama. (whether those accusations are true or not is another discussion, but it made reactionaries insane).

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