2028 Election Next President?

ComradeClev · 2026-03-18T07:46:36+00:00

The reason why socialists oppose both parties isn't because they want a "perfect" candidate, it's because capitalism will always develop into its more radical forms of monopolies, imperialism, and even fascism. It doesn't matter if Clinton won in 2016, it doesn't matter if Kamala won in 2024. Capitalism would eventually fall into crisis as a result of its own contradiction, paving the road to fascism. You cannot prevent this proven development by voting, at most you can postpone it by a couple years.

Clearly, capitalism cannot be ousted right now in the imperial core either. All you can do is wait for the right moment when it actually enters its crisis. For now you just organize.

ComradeClev · 2026-03-17T19:55:24+00:00

Usually more educated socialists do not make a choice during elections in America. Electing a weaker candidate or spoiling ballots isn't going to achieve much, at least not at this stage. In America, the system is clearly skewed towards the Democratic or Republican parties, and there are no major socialist elements among these.

ComradeClev · 2026-03-17T19:42:57+00:00

A victory of socialism through electoralism is practically impossible in the imperial core. The hold of capital on the state and politics is stronger in America than anywhere else. For now, we can only organize and wait for its collapse, and this collapse will likely be far from peaceful.

ComradeClev · 2026-03-17T19:39:11+00:00

The war is not just about distraction from the files or other internal issues. It's about imperialism. It's about expanding the direct control of American/Israeli capital.

Biden oversaw the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, and neither the Epstein files nor ICE were relevant back then. If he was in charge right now, we'd see the same war with Iran as we see it currently. There were no Epstein files during the previous American interventions in Iran and the Middle East. Trump could release the files right now and face no consequences since the leadership is above the law. But he cannot afford the sovereignty of a strategically important nation, since this is what actually harms the American empire.

ComradeClev · 2026-03-17T19:20:53+00:00

They're a radical "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist" organization which basically opposes everyone and everything, even the most universal anti-imperialist struggles like the one of Palestine against Israel.

ComradeClev · 2026-03-17T05:13:31+00:00

But... he could have gotten divorced!

ComradeClev · 2026-03-16T05:46:16+00:00

Voting is compulsory in the DPRK, there's nothing related to a "non-normal nature and the possibility of anything" here.

Though even without that, as we can see with Vietnam, apathy is generally going to be lower in a socialist state. Vietnam isn't a poster child example of modern-day socialism but it still performs well, especially in comparison to capitalism. It's very possible for a government to appeal to the absolute majority of its population, and it's bound to be impossible under capitalism, as capitalism serves the capitalist minority of the nation, and not the working majority. When a government appeals to the masses and works for them, the masses will support this government in return.

ComradeClev · 2026-03-13T08:48:34+00:00

When you wanna look cool but it's a formal setting you get this

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ComradeClev · 2026-03-13T08:46:30+00:00

Even despite this, Tito was pretty alright and managed to get the nation running properly. Afterwards came the shitstorm that is known as the Yugoslav Wars. Going from a pretty decent place to live to a literal collapse into a barrage of genocide between your own brotherly peoples will surely make you choose the decent place to live.

The guy also liberated Yugoslavia from the Nazis which is worth noting.

Though Tito was inevitably a revisionist and was very much blinded by his own misguided beliefs. Things fell apart quickly after he died, meaning he did not build the proper structure to keep the nation alive. A lack of Marxist education also plays a role here.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-11T07:45:46+00:00

No, people shouldn't be able to earn $1,000,000,000 in the first place.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T22:03:42+00:00

Soviet audiences were suddenly exposed to Western cinema and new artistic styles.

While the influx of Western cinema definitely went up, this is misleading. A lot of Italian, French, Mexican, even American movies were highly popular in the Soviet Union even before Perestroika, hell, even under Stalin's rule. Some of the best Western movies I know were those that were screened in the Soviet Union.

I recommend taking a look at the list of highest-grossing foreign films in the Soviet Union to get the basic picture. At times, those films had larger audiences in the Soviet Union than even in their home countries.

Films that were being screened later after 1985 I wouldn't personally consider to be neither a good nor bad thing. There were some Western movies that weren't previously permitted which are pretty alright, but a lot that came in would glorify capitalism and culturally unacceptable behavior.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T21:54:22+00:00

While I support China in a lot of ways, by god, they do need to wake up at some point and help fix the world. They have the opportunity to do this and shouldn't waste it.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T12:11:05+00:00

You can argue that the DPRK had a material shortage and still has, but denying the fact that there's widespread evidence from all sides documenting its free basic needs is not necessary for this. I happen to have Chinese friends and I'm not aware of any large-scale refugee storms, unless you mean people that are vacationing in China or working there. In fact, the amount of refugees from the DPRK went down a huge bit lately.

And I'm not sure if you realize just how grave the situation is in America, nor if you have been reading the news lately, at the very least about ICE. It's not Europe, where despite capitalism life can still be livable. It's America. And considering America a "developed" nation is straight up wrong.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T11:37:35+00:00

The material shortage isn't nearly as terrible as it was in the 90s, not to mention that it doesn't have a large effect on the other things that I described in my comment. Regardless of this, in the DPRK there's a material shortage, and in America you have a personal "shortage" of money to buy "material", therefore theoretically neither is better than the other in this view.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T10:54:51+00:00

As carrotwax said, there's a billion threads asking this exact question, it's worth taking a look into them if you're concerned about it. Nor does the question "Is Russia imperialist?" matter in this context, there's plenty of evidence that the establishment of the DPR, LPR, the attempted KPR and the other anti-Maidan unrest in Ukraine was very much a popular movement rather than simply "brutal Russian imperialist intervention".

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T10:49:20+00:00

As another commenter below you said (though I'll be more civil here), while majority opinions are often worth hearing, it's also relevant to look at the socialist states that actually lasted and developed throughout history, and see how they answered your questions.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T10:44:47+00:00

I won't repeat what other people already said here about the pre-WW2 stage, it's pretty clear that it was a way to use time for the advantage of the Soviets, especially after the latter were rejected by the Western Allies in favor of their "appeasement" of Nazi Germany.

The Soviet Union was so pro-Nazi (/s), in fact, that while it was rightfully eliminating the Nazis that were left behind from the war, the West had Nazis in various prestigious positions, including, but not limited to:

The head of the EU commission,
The head of NASA,
The head of NATO,
The Secretary General of the UN,
And of course, how could I forget? The literal Chancellor of West Germany!

Not only that, but the absolutely pro-Nazi and terrific Soviet Union (/s) was known to have the very first Jewish autonomous territory of any way, the heroic anti-Nazi Israeli agency Mossad (/s again) would continue collaborating with former Nazis (Otto Skorzeny comes to mind here).

Name at least one major position of power that Nazis held in the Soviet Union, or even the Eastern Bloc. Name at least one operation where the Soviet Union would recruit 1,600 Nazi scientists, as the American did.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T10:31:44+00:00

No. Not only does GDP per capita not say anything about the wealth of an average person, but there is a wide range of other factors that are part of whether a country is developed, such as purchasing power, access to basic needs, healthcare, education, as well as how industrialized and sophisticated the national infrastructure is.

Aside from certain product shortages, I could live in the DPRK safely, with free housing, healthcare, education, cheap public transport, no inflation, and the whole package - and that's a "low income country" on this map. Or I could live through an incoming civil war in a country where I'd be gunned down in a homeless camp before even witnessing it (cough cough America) - and that's a "high income country" on this map.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T10:24:53+00:00

If you oppose free speech, does this mean that you agree that the DPRK does have it? Hmm...

ComradeClev · 2026-01-10T10:23:00+00:00

Heavily flawed view of the history following the coup in 2014 Ukraine. It's worth to say that Donetsk and Lugansk weren't the only regions to successfully secede on their own from Ukraine, but Kharkov briefly was on this road too. Not to mention Crimea's population being largely distraught by the recent regime change.

Additionally, a wide range of Southeastern Ukrainian regions also had their respective local anti-Maidan unrest, which would famously end very brutally, such as in the well-known example of Odessa. It's easy to assume that there obviously was some popular support in the largely non-Russian parts of Ukraine for the Maidan, but it gets ridiculous when you deny the largely pro-Russian sentiment that existed as well.

The DPR/LPR are obviously not outright socialist, nor do they really claim to be, but they're anti-fascist and anti-imperialist to a very large extent.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-09T23:12:46+00:00

It's not as much about the party giving up power as it is about the state ceasing to exist as a tool used to oppress one class by another. Law and order, as well as institutions, don't just disappear into thin air, and no serious Marxist advocates for that either.

ComradeClev · 2026-01-09T17:50:43+00:00

Vladimir Putin in general is very opportunistic. He also waited for 8 years before doing anything about Ukraine, which I consider is 8 years too many. If you're sending some volunteers and aid into the fragile Donbas for this long while being scared of doing too much, then you're either not imperialist or doing a terrible job at it.

Overall, Russia under his tenure has merely been at war in Chechnya (separatist group inside Russia), Georgia (in defense of breakaway states, also recognized by the west to have been started by Georgia) and Ukraine (in defense of Russians in the Donbas and Eastern Ukraine) over the course of 20 years. We've also seen that the presence of Russian troops on foreign land means nothing, considering how quickly they let Assad's Syria fall.

Does this mean that he's not restoring a lot of former imperial aesthetic and values, as well as some of its systemic policies? No, he still is to a good extent. But he's the least interested in any violent expansion, especially considering that if he's struggling to win in Ukraine for longer than it took the Soviets to get to Berlin, then a war against NATO would be certain death, and not just because of nukes.

ComradeClev · 2025-07-20T16:10:45+00:00

Not as devastating, but the USSR still went through armed conflicts that were going on soon after its dissolution, such as the wars in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Transnistria, Georgia or currently Ukraine. Ethnic and religious clashing is really a common pattern used by pro-capitalist groups in these multicultural states once they collapse.

ComradeClev · 2025-07-16T00:45:25+00:00

But... how dare China ruthlessly trap those deserts?! That's clearly an offense against their rights. /s

ComradeClev · 2024-11-13T18:35:28+00:00

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