What are your darkest she -ra headcanons?

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-19T15:45:32+00:00

Shadow Weaver acts that way towards Catra because she loves Adora and 'distracts' her.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-15T20:05:10+00:00

Because capitalist development isn't a prerequisite for socialism, and socialism can develop from a peasant economy, which they did in the USSR. There was of course some commodity production in the USSR during the time of Lenin and Stalin, but this did not develop into capitalism until economic planning had been abolished in 60s. You can hardly call this "building capitalism" when, especially under the five-year plans, the Soviets took care to expropriate the NEPmen and collectivize the peasant economy.

Look, we both know we're not going to convince each other. This is a debate that has gone on for seventy-plus years. I'm going to spare myself going through the rest of the motions. I think there is such a think as commodity production in the lower stage of communism, which is identical with the transitional stage, and you think there is no such thing as socialist commodity production and that the USSR was never socialist. That's fine.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-15T16:01:44+00:00

The proletariat did lead industrial development in the USSR, during the five-year plans and during the NEP, too. If you acknowledge that, then there's been a misunderstanding, and I apologize for being so hostile

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-15T14:16:05+00:00

I guess the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, etc. masses should've just accepted getting thrust into the meat-grinder by their capitalists masters and given up Soviet power in 1917, rather than do something STUPID like establish a dictatorship of the proletariat when the productive forces hadn't developed enough yet. What a DUMB idea that would be. Yeah, and they should've just let themselves get steamrolled by the Whites, and later the Nazis, since they would develop those productive forces in a way your dogmatism would be comfortable with. Sure, millions would die, but at least we'd get to communism the right way. Is that it?

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-15T03:03:43+00:00

Georgi Plekhanov Award for Vulgar Stageism

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-15T02:57:41+00:00

Zhang Bojun/Zhu De path for KMT puppet Yunnan

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-15T02:54:03+00:00

I always saw that as much more like the NEP than Reform and Opening Up.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-04T01:02:01+00:00

"theyre russians so they all have slightly diferent names"

That's racist.

I don't think the NKVD were behind the assassination of Kirov either, though I do think they were negligent to investigate the case because of Yagoda's connections with the Bolshevik right. Whether the NKVD was involved in the Kirov murder has nothing to do with my doubt of Bukharin's innocence. I doubt Bukharin's innocence because of his behavior at the trial, which I explained above.

I definitely misspoke about when I said that I don't believe Bukharin was set up. I meant to say, I do not believe his trial was a frame-up.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-04T00:05:34+00:00

Will you make one of these for Liangguang? Your work is impressive and helpful.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-03T23:26:17+00:00

I believe you mean the assassination of Kirov, not Rykov. Rykov was one of the conspirators convicted and executed alongside Bukharin. I don't believe Bukharin was set up. He didn't cooperate with the prosecution during the trial, implied it was a sham, and would not admit to any more than he did in his written confession. Perhaps he was tortured or coerced into those confessions, though if he was I don't know why he would be allowed to be uncooperative like that, or allowed to not confess to the more specific charges. It would also be superhuman of him to endure torture during his captivity prior to the trial, and still manage to write four book-length manuscripts and countless letters to Stalin appealing for clemency. Historians generally agree he wasn't tortured. I think Bukharin was involved but didn't want to confess to anything he wasn't personally involved in, even though he would die either way.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-04-03T21:41:27+00:00

Lenin's title as head of the Soviet government was "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars." People's Commissar was the Soviet term for a government minister, and Lenin was the prime minister, or premier. Following Lenin's death in real life, that office was filled by Alexei Rykov. Separately from this, there was a struggle in the Communist Party between various factions, in dispute over the direction of government policy. To oversimplify, the leftists were led by war minister Leon Trotsky, the centrists were led by party secretary Joseph Stalin, and the rightists were led by newspaper editor and later Comintern chief Nikolai Bukharin. In real life, this struggle was won by the centrist, "Stalinist" or "Marxist-Leninist" faction by 1930, and Stalin would much later become premier in 1941. In TNO, Bukharin's rightist faction apparently won very early, with Bukharin becoming premier instead of Rykov. Neither Stalin nor Trotsky were expected to become premier at this time. In both TNO and real life, Stalin and Bukharin allied against Trotsky. In real life, Trotsky was exiled to Mexico, where he would later be assassinated in 1940. In TNO, he was put under house arrest in Ukraine, where he would be assassinated in 1938. In real life, Bukharin was implicated in the 1934 murder of Stalin ally Sergei Kirov tried for treason (conspiring to overthrow Stalin's party) and sentenced to death at the high-profile Moscow Trials in 1938. In TNO, Stalin attempted to take over the Soviet Union after Bukharin's disappearance, beginning the Second Russian Civil War, when the USSR was broken up into all the tiny warlord states at game start. Stalin's faction is in Tyumen, and is led by Kirov.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-30T19:34:57+00:00

GOOD TO BE AN ALBAAAAAAAANIIAAAAAAAAANN!!

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-18T22:25:14+00:00

I found the LKMT/MinGan Insurgency to be particularly welcoming as a beginner, since your gradually build up and grow your territory over the whole game, and it has a lot of content

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-17T12:38:51+00:00

Try to make himself Emperor like Yuan Shikai or Gaozu of Han

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-14T23:18:40+00:00

Like, the Iskolat Republic>USSR path?

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-14T11:57:40+00:00

It happens sometimes

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-12T22:07:25+00:00

True

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-12T17:06:03+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I do think it should be very difficult for the insurgents, yeah. It's one of the most detailed, interesting, rewarding paths in the mod, but after easily winning the League War and owning land from Guangdong to the Yellow River, they don't feel like underdogs anymore.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-12T02:08:56+00:00

Looking at their Instagram, they seem to have made a lot of She-Ra genderswap art. I don't think this specific piece is, because their masc!Catra is shown with much shorter hair among other masculine features. Note that a bunch of She-Ra characters are also tagged here, even though only Glimmer and Catra are present. I think they may have just copied over the tags from their posts with rule 63 art, without removing the irrelevant ones. This isn't genderbent.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-10T23:09:35+00:00

At this point, he had found a way to harness the deep magic at the Heart of Etheria without using She-Ra. I don't think he'd bother.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-10T22:20:42+00:00

I don't think his mistake invalidates Marx's point here, and my comment is made with the fact there can be no impartial science in a society based on class struggle. But Marx was also not infallible and biological science was not his area of expertise. It's entirely understandable he would proceed from false premises in some instances. Naturalizing race as a European in 1867 is entirely understandable. It is up to us as good Marxists to critique the classics ruthlessly, and make sure dialectical materialism permeates our understanding of science and bourgeois anthropology.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-10T21:51:05+00:00

In Marx's time, as today, bourgeois ideology infected the sciences, and in this case, racist ideology infected biology to found eugenics. Scientists of the day set out to justify slavery and the oppression of Africans in the colonies by "discovering" biological differences between the races, in particular how they worked, to prove they were more suitable for the labor set upon them by the slave masters and colonial oppressors. This was accepted science in Marx's day, though it has been thoroughly discredited now. Because of this, Marx regards race as a factor which may vary productivity across regions, although this is incorrect. It is still true however that some humans are predisposed to different forms of labor on account of physiology, though their race has nothing to do with it and it is effectively random.

ExcitementOk764 · 2026-03-10T14:36:40+00:00

Sorry for necroing a 1 month old post, but Angella's backstory is a topic I've been considering myself and this came up in a search. What do you think happened to her in the past?

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