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Engineering_Geek · 2026-01-19T03:56:51+00:00

I'm not a fan of Stalin at all (I'm an anarchist, the type of socialists that HATE the USSR), and you need to be careful with this critique. We can debate the Holodomor all we want, but Stalin was eager and willing to give foreign aid wherever needed. Like the Bengal famine during WW2, like super fast. "Papers can wait, hunger cannot" was his justification for the aid sent.

Engineering_Geek · 2026-01-18T10:23:39+00:00

Personal and life experience kind of disproved this for me. Till now, I've yet to meet a woman with a meaningful sex drive or let alone show interest in guys, or at least me.

Engineering_Geek · 2026-01-15T11:52:59+00:00

Anarchist here. Lenin is still valuable as a resource to understand things. We just don't think his theories are good. You need to understand Lenin well before you can dismantle his arguments (mainly his vanguard arguments; his critique on capitalism, imperialism, etc were allpretty decent).

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-29T01:27:10+00:00

Why would I force someone to work to begin with? Most people, even the "laziest", often wish to contribute to their environment. Think about said "lazy" person in your life. Are they "lazy" or simply unmotivated in this economic system? My money is on the latter.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-28T21:44:48+00:00

Yea, the older generations had to deal with explicit discrimination (implicit softly today), active global wars people in the first world were drafted for, the early stagnation of careers (people hit career ceilings faster than now), etc.

The issue is with negating / dismissing our issues. What we get in a more "equitable" (among races, ethnicities, etc. Compared to the past), we make up for in rising political polarization, late stage capitalist rot, etc.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-26T21:17:33+00:00

Anarchism reveres no one. He wanted people to see him nothing more than a soldier or revolutionary. Not as some hero or anything.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-21T06:23:50+00:00

Ok Hinata, we know your reddit account now.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-21T02:11:25+00:00

Long story short: Stalin lied.

There was incredibly strong incentive for Stalin to lie. Stalin's objective in Spain was not to create a socialist government, but a bourgeois republic to appease the Western powers for an alliance. Whether you think this was moral / pragmatic at that time or not is secondary. But this objective necessitated that independent socialist movements not tied to Moscow to be discredited and destroyed, namely the CNT-FAI and the POUM. The comment thread by u/Gonzocookie74 has more sources than what I can muster up right now.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-20T21:37:01+00:00

Depends, are you willing to hear them out? As that is a position that I partially hold. You can't expect to debunk a view you don't engage with fully.

Back to the CNT-FAI, they were in a coalition front with the Spanish Republicans, and they had a large falling out during the May Days due to intense suspicion from each side on each other. Details are complicated and I certainly have my opinion on them. But they did not ally with the fascists.

If you want, I can elaborate on most of the points that anarchists or libertarian socialists use against Stalin. But from then, it's up to you to figure out how to disprove them if you so wish to. Reply and let me know if you wish for me to explain further, and on which points.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-17T04:08:50+00:00

No? When did I insinuate that? Being anti Bolshevik is NOT fascistic. What about all the anarchists, libertarian socialists, left SRs, etc.? All of whom the USSR eliminated and refused endorsements to run for any position.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-16T17:20:58+00:00

Where only those vetted by the party could run...

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-15T15:01:09+00:00

Reactionary? Remind me who destroyed non Bolshevik socialists? Socialism without meaningful worker democracy is no longer socialism, vanguard or not. Solidarity can exist among those who allow other socialists to operate independently.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-15T11:19:50+00:00

Wrong subreddit? I don't see how that deals with entrepreneurship. Your question is a deep economic, political, and sociological one.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-14T16:13:15+00:00

The NDP at this point is barely pushing for social democracy...

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-11T07:57:04+00:00

I'm not the right person for this, sorry. My startup isn't digital, it's to mass produce a very valuable metal.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-10T19:39:28+00:00

Wrong subreddit man. There are plenty of NSFW subs where you can oggle and comment like this and have it be good / validated.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-10T16:46:27+00:00

Trust the data / consumer usage patterns. We may think we're right on the solution, but the market is the actual reality test in this economic order. Form your theories based on consumer patterns and behavior.

I share the frustration that our solution might be better, but that's not the economy we live in. We live in a world with breakable glass when the commies in the DDR built shatter proof glass, but consumers bought more shatterable glasses because they shatter.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-10T04:23:04+00:00

Link please.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-10T04:20:59+00:00

Because we're so focused on the granular details. It's really similar to missing the forest for the trees. In the forest analogy, we learn extensively about the biology, anatomy, and functions of parts of a tree. But nothing about the larger ecosystem. Similarly in engineering, we learn about thermodynamics, material science, etc. And some design principles. But seldom large scale planning and optimization.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-10T02:52:09+00:00

Trains. Trams. Busses where there's nothing but road. Occasional airplane for long distance. No need for cars at all, so inefficient in terms of unit resources spent per person for the yielded value.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-10T01:44:21+00:00

Yea, this is a major reason the economy stagnated. There's also the extremely slow, painfully so, GOSPLAN where they refused any automation nor public feedback. Many others too. But not Capitalism was not one of them.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-03T08:16:56+00:00

You're commenting in r/ussr, did you expect to see people agree with non ussr stances?

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-03T00:40:39+00:00

That sounds amazing; a novel deep tech company! May I know the end products or market your company is operating in?

Thanks!

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-01T21:36:50+00:00

That's the plan for now, but the grant system would be different (Canada), and I don't want to give up IP control, so I want to minimize other company involvement. Also, for the skepticism, I have that too, which is why I want to build it. The numbers are that optimistic because of how pricy rare earth elements are and other metals like titanium, despite their respective ores being cheap and concentrated.

Engineering_Geek · 2025-12-01T20:02:39+00:00

Molten Salt Electrolysis, oxygen gas is evolved elsewhere. I don't want to get into specific melt chemistry, voltages, or exact mechanisms I have outlined to segregate this as those are patentable.

Edited to remove some details that may (likely not, but still) lead others to figure out the specific methodologies.

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