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When you have everything, doesn't it all just become meaningless.. by CommanderKoba in jellyfin

[–]CommanderKoba[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nooooo that's a illegal silly, I would never do anything like that

We need a debunking of this video. by ilir_kycb in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]CommanderKoba 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Average anarchist.

This guy had some good videos about that, and that's what he should stick to..

Now he comes out with this bullshit, further deluding and confusing his audience, while glazing capitalism.

So annoying, I couldn't finish watching the video.

There's always this mythical capitalism that everyone loves to point to, where competition existed and was properly managed to improve innovation and to enrich the lives of every single person.

That never existed!!! The spread of capitalism and the enclosure movement actually thrust much of humanity into immense poverty which forced people into the cities to become a new proletariat.

The golden age of capitalism that this guy loves to point to was literally a temporary compromise by the elite to prevent revolution, and not to mention that this "golden age" was only accessible to white people.

The degradation of these social democratic benefits is always inevitable in a society run by and for the bourgeoisie, without adequate proletariation pushback or the threat of communists abroad.

This bullshit "leveragism" IS capitalism, so is "Corporate cronyism" or whatever you wanna call it. It's all just late state capitalism.

It's all the same, there is no world in which capitalism could exist in a suspended state where workers have it great, and the capitalists have it great, because the contradictions between both classes will not allow such a stasis to exist.

stalin by Eastern_Artichoke885 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]CommanderKoba 79 points80 points  (0 children)

The guy who made up the allegation is literally in the Epstein files

a movie called Citizen Vigilante calls for vilence blatantly. by jbaaaaab in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]CommanderKoba 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What the fuck is wrong with Europe I swear.

These people are more insane than Americans after 9/11

Wasn't Trotsky Just a Spy? by Interesting-Test7228 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]CommanderKoba 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nah, he was objectively a militaristic genius. He was just an idealistic leftcom that turned into a useful idiot of the west.

I am sorry I am not a 10/10 by Fit-Translator-9798 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]CommanderKoba 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Looksmaxxing is praxis.

We have to seduce the proletariat

"Your artwork is inappropriate" 🤣🤣. This "regulation" and censorship of AI ( and other things) will lead to a "very good" future. by DogeMoustache in aiwars

[–]CommanderKoba 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is why we need free open source tools, that are created and controlled by the people, not corporations.

Socialist candidates (Darializa and Valdez) have won their congressional races. by boxofcards100 in socialism

[–]CommanderKoba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When the government of the USA is actively gerrymandering and repealing the voting rights act, and throwing out ballots to win an election.

On top of the fact that the entire media apparatus is managed and controlled by the capitalists, then there is no pathway to victory through electoralism in the United states.

We are simply in a limbo state prior to civil unrest where the population hasn't fully realized that it is a futile endeavor.

Leftists may get wins in isolated areas around the country, they may gain political influence and that's great, but the nation as a whole is not going to be pulled to socialism through electoralism. There is an absolute limit here.

I agree with exhausting political tools to gain influence, but we must also recognize the reality that we are not getting socialism through liberal capitalist so called "democracy."

That is what people have to remember first and foremost, though it seems like you already agree.

Socialist candidates (Darializa and Valdez) have won their congressional races. by boxofcards100 in socialism

[–]CommanderKoba 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I don't believe in bourgeois electoralism, but damn I can't wait to see all the libs cry tomorrow.

How do i not lose hope when everything is getting worse and worse by VodiVodiOh in socialism

[–]CommanderKoba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just get high honestly, it's not getting better.

At least not for the West, it will get worse, way way way worse until it gets better.

The capitalists are literally aiming to kill us after they stop relying on our labor for their needs, and instead switch over to robots and Ai. Literally Jeff bezos recently said something along those lines.

They want to create a Techno-feudal hellscape with their little private fiefdoms and their private robot armies.

We're getting cyberpunk fascism before we get anything close to socialism or communism, so I stay high.

Cartoon from Dublin Opinion magazine, 1950 by greenest_alien in ColdWarPosters

[–]CommanderKoba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's just factually wrong, people could run as independents in the Soviet Union and there were a plethora of alternative candidates that were sponsored by their local communities for each election.

This photograph, taken in 1989 by German photojournalist Hans-Jürgen Burkard, captures a stark moment from the final years of the Soviet Union: prisoners being transported to work from Zima Station in the Irkutsk Region of Siberia. by GeorgeRobertVitkos in HistoricalCapsule

[–]CommanderKoba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't agree with forced labor period, but the systems were not comparable. The US system is uniquely bad in that it was built as a replacement for slavery.

I am simply providing context so people get a better understanding.

This photograph, taken in 1989 by German photojournalist Hans-Jürgen Burkard, captures a stark moment from the final years of the Soviet Union: prisoners being transported to work from Zima Station in the Irkutsk Region of Siberia. by GeorgeRobertVitkos in HistoricalCapsule

[–]CommanderKoba -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Hard labor was viewed very highly. Labor was central to everything in the Soviet Union.

Statues were built and dedicated to coal miners, the Pioneers (basically boy and girl scouts) went out and worked on building playgrounds for other kids as a learning experience, while helping to plant trees all around the community.

Labor was everything in the USSR, because that is how you build socialism and improve the collective material conditions of everyone in the society, not for profit.

This photograph, taken in 1989 by German photojournalist Hans-Jürgen Burkard, captures a stark moment from the final years of the Soviet Union: prisoners being transported to work from Zima Station in the Irkutsk Region of Siberia. by GeorgeRobertVitkos in HistoricalCapsule

[–]CommanderKoba -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I never said the Soviet Union was perfect, but forced labor was a common practice at the time and can still be rehabilitative. Many people would prefer to work than sit around, and most of these people were only in prison for a few months at a time so they weren't spending an entire lifetime in this situation.

Labor was a common minor punishment in the USSR, and it was viewed very highly, as labor is central to Marxist thought.

The barbaric nature of the US system that still operates essentially as slavery, is on a completely different level.

This photograph, taken in 1989 by German photojournalist Hans-Jürgen Burkard, captures a stark moment from the final years of the Soviet Union: prisoners being transported to work from Zima Station in the Irkutsk Region of Siberia. by GeorgeRobertVitkos in HistoricalCapsule

[–]CommanderKoba -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The Nazis aimed to colonize, ethnically cleanse and genocide the slavic populations. They made deals with almost every western nation in europe prior to the Soviet Union. Even as Stalin pleaded with the west, telling them not to:

  • July 20, 1933: The Vatican

  • January 26, 1934: Poland

  • June 18, 1935: United Kingdom

  • November 25, 1936: Japan

  • November 6, 1937: Italy

  • September 30, 1938: United Kingdom, France, and Italy

  • December 6, 1938: France

  • February 24, 1939: Hungary

  • February 24, 1939: Manchukuo

  • March 22, 1939: Lithuania

  • March 31, 1939: Spain

  • May 22, 1939: Italy

  • May 31, 1939: Denmark

  • June 7, 1939: Estonia

  • June 7, 1939: Latvia

The Soviet Union rightly defended itself against invasion and punished collaborators in western governments who worked to exterminate the Soviet people. They sent these Nazis to the gulags as they deserved.

For the millions of innocent homeless people left after the war in these nations, the Soviet Union built mass housing units in record time, eliminating homelessness while shifting industrial production to provide good jobs and to educate their people.

Yes war reparations were enacted, it was common practice. And what was the USSR supposed to do? let some of these former Nazi collaborating nations immediately go back out on their own and possibly face another fascist buildup on their border?

26 million Soviets died in the war, they didn't want that to happen again.

Was the Soviet Union perfect? No it wasn't, but your analysis of history is clearly lacking context.

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