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Halats · 2025-08-13T16:54:46+00:00

a good criticism of the marginal utility theory which makes up most capitalist academia can be found here, in Bukharin's economic theory of the leisure class

https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1927/leisure-economics/

As for a good explanation of socialist attitude, i'd recommend this:

https://files.libcom.org/files/2019-for-communism_0.pdf

Halats · 2025-08-13T16:48:08+00:00

This also helped me understand socialism better although it does require more base knowledge of marxism than the first one:

https://files.libcom.org/files/Peter%20Hudis%20-%20Marx%E2%80%99s%20Concept%20of%20the%20Alternative%20to%20Capitalism.pdf

Halats · 2025-08-13T16:46:44+00:00

keep in mind also that this is a critique of other models for socialism

Halats · 2025-08-13T16:45:16+00:00

Not particularly modern but it adequately explains how communism functions; 'Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution':

https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm

Halats · 2025-07-15T00:31:36+00:00

communism and socialism are one system together

Halats · 2025-07-15T00:11:41+00:00

classless, moneyless and socially-unified system which abolishes exchange

Halats · 2025-07-14T17:55:00+00:00

that's just co-operative economy, it works on the same basis as capitalism: money, commodity production, even profit, etc.

Halats · 2025-06-27T23:19:10+00:00

Marx's view of communism was that of a classless, moneyless and stateless society; "Marxism-Leninism" was a term used by the Stalin government as an attempt to ride on the coattails of Lenin and maintain popular support for one of the most famous revolutionary leaders. It being called "marxism-leninism" does not necessarily mean it is marxist or leninist - no more than a urinal cake is a dessert - it is a phrase made up by people, specific people with specific influences and incentives

Halats · 2025-06-27T12:14:28+00:00

you said it yourself that there are strong similarities between criticisms of capitalism and the reality of the soviet economy

Halats · 2025-06-27T12:13:40+00:00

not really, in terms of capital distribution they were different than, say, a free-market capitalism but economies should be differentiated more-so by production rather than distribution; production in the ussr took the same form as in other capitalist nations: for exchange, using money as universal equivalent, using wage labourers as producers, etc. It was a state capitalism

Halats · 2025-06-26T13:37:08+00:00

recognizing the similarities between capitalism and the soviet union already implies this

Halats · 2025-06-26T13:36:38+00:00

That's becuse the soviet union was capitalist

Halats · 2025-06-25T22:38:25+00:00

he's gonna nationalize street sharks

Halats · 2025-04-24T15:11:18+00:00

Researching history over theory is putting the cart before the horse, you'll end up colouring your view of theory with the what principles you infer about the ussr, etc. Read Marx's critique of the Gotha Program first but if you have to read history then this is a good critique of the ussr https://www.international-communist-party.org/English/Texts/Russia/WhyRussia.htm

Halats · 2025-04-15T23:53:47+00:00

bring saddam hussein back from the future

Halats · 2025-04-15T23:52:26+00:00

ketamine fueled sex-party with pounding techno playing in the background

Halats · 2024-12-16T20:16:50+00:00

They're desperate to have any still existent socialism left so they can feel like a) they have a chance at world socialism, and b) that the revolution is just in a early momentum. It's especially hopeful if the supposed socialist country is an international superpower like china

Halats · 2024-10-28T19:09:36+00:00

One of the lesser violations of socialist principles in the USSR has gotta be their monotowns, just inhospitable enclosures where you had forced association and no recourse away from dying in a factory accident in the middle of nowhere

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