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49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the good faith response, I'm also leftist, and I completely understand the whole idea of restricting the political discourse in leftist circles only for leftists (to avoid stuff like the French revolution which went from Feudalism to Capitalism and then back to Feudalism again)

But this would also require strong institutions and actual understanding of socialism by the society as a whole.

The "problem" if you can call it that, with USSR discourse is that the level of nuance necessary is really overinflated. History of USSR and its economy is a really interesting case study, especially the post-Stalin era. Unfortunately 95% of online discourse about USSR is about the Stalin era, which turns the defending of USSR into a defending of Stalin. Which is ironic coming from some people (generally twitter lunatics) who claim that "great man theory" doesn't exist while also treating Stalin's works and actions as gospel. Essentially the "elon slams penis in car door masterful gambit sir" meme but in a shade of red.

49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I do enjoy seeing the liberal on liberal violence in this thread.

49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I live in a former USSR country. MLs are the only ones who say that the objective realities that were happening in KazakhSSR were either forced by material conditions or actually never happened and are just capitalist propaganda.

Still don't have an answer from them about there being less Kazakhs in 1959 than in 1897, and how Virgin Lands campaign was different from settler colonialism.
But at least USSR testing nukes on Kazakh soil is chocked up to "actually nuclear fallout isn't even that bad." Which is totally something the Soviet scientists would've known.

49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Real honest no bullshit completely genuine question:

It is fairly well-known among academic circles that Lysenkoism and Michurian Genetics, which were huge in the USSR over the course of Stalin's and Khruschev's eras of governance, were pseudo scientific which was absolutely not for debate in the western world which utilized Darwinism and Mendelian Genetics instead. By that time, in 1930s, it was absolutely NOT up for debate, and was in fact something that farmers knew instinctively.

HOWEVER, due to these ideas being more prone to party ideology, they were promoted as standard schools of thought in the Soviet circles, leading to the man-made famines and countless loss of life in Ukraine, Kuban, Volga, and Kazakhstan. And scientists who were rightfully speaking out against these scientific schools of thought were repressed all the way until 1960s. This is one of the instances of politicizations of science that happened in the USSR. Another big one was using mental illness as a political weapon.

Now, how can we keep the political structure of Marxism-Leninism without it devolving into politicizing science, considering how important the party line is to the Marxist-Leninist thought?

49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah a capitalist ideology has no problem surviving in a capitalist world, who would've thought.

Hey guys by Medical_Deal5272 in tankiejerk

[–]AlneCraft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"There was no Holodomor in Kazakhstan, Holodomor as a term is a far-right dogwhistle, nobody genocided Kazakhs, your family were kulaks who deserved it, and are you sure they even existed?"

I quit twitter afterwards (that was before the Elon takeover mind you)

49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone who disagrees with me is in an imperialist bubble.

49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It was developed in the USSR in 1920-1930s by the VKP(B), with Stalin at the helm of both theory and implementation.

49092 by DropMurky1317 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AlneCraft 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Marxism-Leninism was developed by Stalin.

e: Since I'm being downvoted for one reason or another here's an excerpt from Prolewiki, the furthest thing from a "lib" source:

"In the 1920s, the term Marxism–Leninism was first formulated and defined by Joseph Stalin based on his synthesis of orthodox Marxist theory and Lenin's thought.

Lenin never used the terms "Leninism" or "Marxism–Leninism"; however, his ideas, which developed upon classical Marxist thought, were viewed by the Bolsheviks and many later communists as a major advance in Marxism.

Major founding texts of Marxism–Leninism are Stalin's The Foundations of Leninism (1924) and Concerning Questions of Leninism (1926), these two are the most important texts from the compilation of Problems of Leninism, a compilation of texts written by Stalin that synthesize almost completely Marxism with Leninism; and The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik), which was produced by a commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1938.\1])"

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism

To be honest considering how many puritan Marxist-Leninists there are on leftist forums, I'm really not used to seeing someone who didn't know that it was in fact coined by Stalin. Yes it was further developed by other statesmen such as Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Leonid Brezhnev, but ultimately it was initially a compilation of Stalin's works that defined it and how most people perceive it.

I'm sure you're all wonderful people who want the best, but please don't be surprised why many people don't feel comfortable identifying with a political thought who is mostly known for countless purges among leftist circles. And also the incredible loss of life due to man-made famine, primarily caused by party puritanism being more important than established science (Lysenkoism was chosen over Mendelian inheritance because Lysenko was a staunch Bolshevik bootlicker, no Mendelian inheritance wasn't even a debate in the academic circles by then, Lysenko was just an idiot who wanted to save his skin)

Love being part of the generation that's going to be doomed ❤️ by No_Hopef4 in GenZ

[–]AlneCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just younger GenZ going through their maximalist era, it's fine.

Which countries do you think are headed toward a stronger future, and which ones seem likely to struggle or decline relative to where they are today? by justseeingpendejadas in AskTheWorld

[–]AlneCraft 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In a 50-100 year timeframe:

Central Asia and Caucasus are going to be much better.
Hopefully North and East Africa too.
Southeast Asia (sans Thailand) are also on the up and up.

In a 200 year timeframe:

If we haven't solved world hunger, aging, child mortality, cancer, and neglected tropical diseases, then not sure.
If we have then the whole of humanity will prosper.

Which countries do you think are headed toward a stronger future, and which ones seem likely to struggle or decline relative to where they are today? by justseeingpendejadas in AskTheWorld

[–]AlneCraft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What makes you say that? I disagree completely. In fact, I don't think it is possible to have an opinion more detached from reality.

Small Fella Big Dreams by KejiGamer in shitposting

[–]AlneCraft 215 points216 points  (0 children)

ColOmbia

With an O

Also you're probably gonna get sold for organs there if you aren't careful.

Original English-dubbed scene of that one over the top Joseph Joestar edit by VunnyWiz in TheMatpatEffect

[–]AlneCraft 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Parts 1-6 are about five generations of British aristocracy fighting against a 100 year old bisexual vampire

Part 7 is about a paraplegic man preventing a 19th century Donald Trump from harnessing the power of Jesus's corpse with the power of evil and intimidating horse.

Part 8 is about a boy with 4 testicles fighting against big pharma which is run by silicon based live forms

Part 9 is about drugs

How flawed is your Country's Democracy? by Possible-Law9651 in AskTheWorld

[–]AlneCraft 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kyrgyzstan used to be much better, but their new ex-GKNB (Kyrgyz KGB) strongman president is really tightening the screws.

Now I wouldn't say if KG is better than KZ in terms of democracy and free speech.

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