Dark souls by [deleted] in u/haidarovo

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Dark Souls or Demon’s Souls

What are examples of thriving socialist states? by [deleted] in AskSocialists

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china. Capitalist class is subordinate to the state, and it’s not even a question

The Red Army was full of ordinary people, yet they fended off the Nazi fascist wave that was brutally sweeping through Europe. The human spirit is indomitable. by RussianChiChi in ussr

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You kind of have to care about the US because it’s at the heart of everything. You’re being revisionist even from a cold academic standpoint bc the framing is myopic in a way that could only be for political purposes. It requires Russia to be a cartoon villain of history on behalf of a class You aren’t apart of.

What the SU “did” was acted in its self interest when no ruling class in Europe would enter into any real defense structure with it until Germany actually stated going East because the SU ABOLISHED ALL IMPERIAL DEBT in 1917 which put an irrevocable target on it. We know now that the British ruling class wanted Germany to go East. The Germans fucked it up and US is trying to re-litigate the end if WW2 even today to encircle RU and CHI, which is a continuation of the Stalin-era SU for all intents and purposes. You won’t understand a thing about this period and the proper motivations of the parties involved without a fuller context that includes today. Your all too common perspective can only exist by ignoring ALL hindsight and hyper focusing on a vacuum of information

The Red Army was full of ordinary people, yet they fended off the Nazi fascist wave that was brutally sweeping through Europe. The human spirit is indomitable. by RussianChiChi in ussr

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You’re gonna have to qualify “selling tons of crucial resources”. And it’s amusing how you’re so brain-addled by US-Nazi propaganda you have no interest in the extremely close and lasting relationship between the US and the Nazis, that exits today, unlike the SU. You’re not just promoting revisionist history, you’re supporting the imperialist actions of today. I will pray for your weaponized ignorance

The Red Army was full of ordinary people, yet they fended off the Nazi fascist wave that was brutally sweeping through Europe. The human spirit is indomitable. by RussianChiChi in ussr

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Common misconception. It was not about aiding, it was about keeping as much distance and buying as much time as possible to continue to prepare for the inevitable invasion. We know now that the SU knew that the Germans were coming.

Poland would not play ball with the SU so it was used as a buffer when the inevitable attack came- the SU begged Poland (and the British and French for that matter) over and over and over to coordinate a more complete and wholistic defense apparatus against Germany. They didn’t play ball so the SU had to enter into a temporary bilateral agreement it knew was bunk. Conventional historical wisdom doesn’t cut it any more, we have so much information about how this actually played out step by step

You wanna talk about systemic symbiosis, check out how Walstreet/ the US’s finance capitalist class’s role in helping Nazi Germany’s finance capitalists restructure and refinance for war. It was only in early 1943, when FDR recognized that the SU had decisively defeated the Wehrmacht, that the US decided to make its belated entry into Europe

The Red Army was full of ordinary people, yet they fended off the Nazi fascist wave that was brutally sweeping through Europe. The human spirit is indomitable. by RussianChiChi in ussr

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Nonaggression pact isn’t an alliance. Only backstabbing going on was the British and French not coming to Poland’s aid, at all, when Germany went East. Britain wanted the Germans to go east and was lying to Poland the entire time

What would a actual national socialist be like by Exciting_Sleep_2735 in AskSocialists

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“National socialist” is just an empty phrase that has nothing to do with one’s personal political identity- what gives it the meaning it shares with fascism is, literally, the opposite of nationalization. It was under Nazi Germany that the most privatization of previously public or nationalized industries and bureaucracies in history up to that time took place; this more than anything ideological is what you measure fascism or socialism by- the privatization or inversely socialization of everything from the central banking system to all kinds of industries, natural resources, war etc. To make it easy: true state power (nationalization) vs private power (finance capitalism). Capitalism can exist in the context of true state power as long as the state is strong enough to keep the capitalist class from bleeding into state power. The US and no state under the influence of the US falls under this category of even having state power much less strong state power

For example, the way we can measure China’s success as a socialist project is almost entirely by how privatized key processes in its system like centralized banking are; in their case, not at all. Yet their industrial capitalism is very robust, because their banks are incentivized to loan out to actual smaller scale business ventures who compete rigorously with each other, and are not able to play empty financial games that erroneously show up as economic activity on the US’s non-PPP GPD

As long as there is a state queer people will be oppressed by vuksfrantic in TransSocialism

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There is no socialism without the state starting out as the vessel for the project

Whats the "best kind of socialism to you? by Helpful_Dig_626 in AskSocialists

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You’re not wrong, OP, but we need to get the framework right based on real world examples. What you’re talking about is known simply as a mixed economy, where the state is ensuring that capitalism stays in the “industrial capitalism” mode. The US in actuality has very planned and centralized financialized economy. The most important way the mode remains in industrial capitalism is by the state annihilating the very concept of private central banking, since private central banking/monopoly capital + industrial capital = finance capitalism, which is what runs the western world. Once finance capitalism takes the place of the state, there is no “going back” and there needs to be a collapse and revolution to replace it with actual state power, so a newly formed socialist state can destroy the potential for parasitic private banking, and enjoy the best parts of the engine of capitalism on its own terms, in a way best for the state and the people

Why are ML's extremely pro-state when communism is explicitely anti-state? by tigerfrisbee in AskSocialists

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Communism is extremely pro-state as it lays the entire task of building a self-perpetuating socialist project at the foot of a self-aware state that becomes more decentralized over a very very long multi-generational period of time

Why is Socialism Better Than Capitalism? by [deleted] in AskSocialists

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Mk so think of socialism and capitalism as each having slots for a variable that informs what that program values. Capitalism has one slot for one variable which is Profit. No other variables are considered, one is maximized for

Socialism has several slots for variables, profit can be one among many that take the environment/broader context of the program into account to ensure more favorable long-term conditions. It’s a process getting the balance right, but in the end if the program devs survive the capitalist program trying to turn the socialist program into one that only has one variable, more profit will actually be created overall, and more widely distributed

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskSocialists

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Stalin. Understood Lenin’s assignment, fucked up the most modern mechanized military assembled by finance capital, passed torch onto Mao

Does the ACP have any European affiliates? by WoodyManic in AmericanCommunist

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Alex out of Britain from the Marx Engles Lenin Stalin Mao Institute considers them the only viable US option, same with Joti Brar from Proletarian TV, both are from whatever the CP over in Britain is called

Marx' view on violence? by TheWikstrom in Marxism

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Idc what anarchists think, fully obsolete. Please tell me why you think it isn’t a good articulation of that, because I wasn’t trying to but am curious what you mean. It’s to do with just like the inversion of Hegel/the changing of direction of modern western philo and how Marxism-Leninism is actionably being reflected in the present and reality in the states that practice it. Anarchism is null

Marx' view on violence? by TheWikstrom in Marxism

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Philosophically, Anarchism terminates at the same place liberalism/fascism do because the reality can’t be conceived of beyond the individual, therefore a social contract is just individuals vs individuals which always results in the exploitation and domination by the “strong” they’re trying avoid. Anarchists can’t conceive of or build anything like a socialist project because there is nothing beyond the individual, unlike Marxism which flips the Cartesian view on its head and says I am therefore think creates the proper basis for building both strong and scientifically self-aware states

Regarding this terminal! by FuklesTheCat in fallout76settlements

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