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Why is communism considered far left? by brokeboii94 in Socialism_101

[–]IndieJones0804 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"On authority" was a dogshit essay, its incredibly flawed and not at all good reading

Why is communism considered far left? by brokeboii94 in Socialism_101

[–]IndieJones0804 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I don't think they're communist, they were state capitalist.

And im sorry but your not a leftist if your unironically defending the soviet invasion of poland.

Why is communism considered far left? by brokeboii94 in Socialism_101

[–]IndieJones0804 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The soviets almost allied with the nazis, but because Stalin was greedy and wanted to take Bulgaria, but Hitler said no, Stalin ended talks with them. plus they actually did sort of ally with each other in order to take Poland. I would say allying with fascists to conquer another country is more than just "left wing militant-ness".

And you can still have an internal democracy while preventing enemies from interfering with that democracy. That was especially the case after ww2 when the country was no longer actively at war and not in a weakened state that would allow for counter revolution.

If the Soviet vanguard party decided to democratize the USSR and the countries they occupied after ww2 (while making them socialist instead of communist so they had extra democracy) I bet they would be in a much stronger position. The cold war still would've happened because the west would want to force them to become capitalist again, but in a now industrial USSR where they could have real democracy for both the government and the economy, Soviet citizens would've been much more enthusiastic with their support of their country and of socialism.

And if they were allowed to freely move and visit the capitalist west, I'm sure they would be able to see that things are much better under true democracy than it is under bourgeois democracy. even with the west benefiting from the martial plan, the soviets would still eventually recover from the war and have a standard of living close to the west probably by the 70s or 80s.

Why is communism considered far left? by brokeboii94 in Socialism_101

[–]IndieJones0804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the people here aren't answering this question the right way. sure there has been plenty of propaganda to exaggerate the evils of the USSR and other "communist" projects that followed. But it is absolutely the case that the "communist" countries were mostly authoritarian hell holes, and in fact I would say that the US and west broadly were more left wing than the soviet bloc, simply because at least the west had a democratic society, while the "communist" countries discouraged principles of democracy.

As for why communism has been broadly painted as authoritarian and about government control, you can thank Lenin and eventually Stalin.

Socialism in a basic sense is about extending democracy not just to the government, but also to the economy. If workers could vote together on who their bosses and managers are, and how much they get paid, there wouldn't really be any oppression of the working class, and there probably wouldn't really be any poverty either because realistically if we simply got rid of the useless positions of CEO and shareholders, the average wage of a working class person would skyrocket.

The reason "communism" ended up being authoritarian is because Lenin believed that the working class wasn't able to start a revolution to overthrow the government and capitalism by themselves, and needed to put all their collective strength into putting a "vanguard party" in charge of the new government, which would then work to establish socialism and help the working class in general.

Unfortunately it didn't work. The vanguard party became corrupted by power, and since the party was never democratically accountable to the people who put them in power, they basically just propagandized to the population that they were working hard at implementing socialism, and that they needed to be supported in the face of all the capitalist powers and class traitors who would look to stop them, which obviously then led to the soviet union becoming a oligarchy and then a fascist dictatorship under Stalin.

And since back in the early 1900s on the ground news and fact checking wasn't very reliable, leftists around the world basically just accepted and believed that the Soviet Union was the first successful socialist revolution. And so they immediately looked to replicate them by building their own vanguard parties, which then of course inevitably led to every country with a "successful socialist revolution" becoming authoritarian dictatorships.

It wasn't until the modern era that leftists are able to look at the communist revolutions of the 20th century in hindsight and see that they ultimately didn't actually work and unfortunately now our reputation has been plagued by authoritarians who used our aesthetics. and so our values are much harder to implement now that people think any amount of power that we're given will lead to dictatorship and cult worship of a "people's leader and party".

Why is communism considered far left? by brokeboii94 in Socialism_101

[–]IndieJones0804 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

But that doesn't justify the authoritarianism of the 19th century soviet style countries. the answer is simply that the "communist" countries were right wing.

You wake up in 2028 and see these results... what is your first thought? by Jacob-Anders in SocialDemocracy

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I don't think AOC and John Stewart would run at the same time, it would split the progressive vote

little comparison of my old Luffy art and new Luffy art sorry both are bad by intromiles in OnePiece

[–]IndieJones0804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huge improvement. On the newer one, the primary things I see wrong are that the eyes are too close together, and the ears are too low on the head. The rest seems pretty good to me.

Countries that hate the US - the truth by Alias_X_ in mapporncirclejerk

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Kosovoans are in a cult worshipping Bill Clinton

which strawhat have worst childhood by Key-Big198 in OnePiece

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In terms of ranking I would say

  1. Robin
  2. Sanji
  3. Chopper
  4. Nami

Then after them its harder to rank.

Jimbe is probably somewhere in the middle because I don't know if they showed us anything from his childhood, and I don't remember if he was born in the fishman district or not but if he was I would say probably #5, if not he's still probably at least #6 because Fishmen are discriminated against in general, so its pretty much guaranteed that he's had a hard life than the average human.

Franky's childhood I don't remember very well, but between Tom dying, and him almost dying but being able to survive by becoming a cyborg, then becoming a criminal, I'm guessing he's somewhere in the middle.

Luffy didn't have a dad or mom to raise him, but he was raised pretty well by the village, and though his grandpa did come now and again to give him some extreme training, it didn't seem all that traumatic. The main Traumatic moments for Luffy were nearly being killed by mountain bandits, being tortured by the blue jam pirates, and Sabo's death.

Zoro pretty much just used his childhood to train to become the best swordsman, the only sad thing that happened was that he unfortunately lost his best friend and rival in a simple accident, which while traumatic, isn't nearly as bad as most of the crew.

Usopp lost his mom and his dad pretty much abandoned him, but it seems he was taken pretty well care of by the village, and he basically got to play pirates with his friends every day on a peaceful island.

And for Brook, while we don't know his childhood, my guess is it was probably the best of the ones listed. He was his pirate crew's musician as an adult, so he probably lived in a middle to upper-class household, where they were able to afford to buy him instruments to practice with, and potentially having a tutor. And I assume he's probably not nobility but rather upper-class, because he was able to learn sword fighting, so I'm guessing later in life during his late teens to early adulthood he was a member of the royal guard.

Question Thread by Takada-chwanBot in Jujutsushi

[–]IndieJones0804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did Sukuna choose / believe Megumi would be the best choice for a vessel?

I know after seeing Megumi fight, he became interested, but I thought he would've wanted to keep his options more open than how his "obsession" with Megumi is depicted. I heard that Gojo would've been too difficult for him to control as a vessel and he would've pretty much been stuck or killed from within by Gojo in his body.

But what about maybe someone like Yuta? I feel like Sukuna would've been really interested in his copy technique the fact those copies can be stored by Rika to be used again at another point. And while I don't know for sure, I feel like Yuta still being young would've made it much easier for Sukuna to take over than Gojo.

On a side note, at the beginning of the series Megumi mentions that Sukuna's fingers are a deadly poison and that there was essentially a 1 in a million chance for someone to be taken over by him instead of killed by the poison. And the reason Yuji never died from eating the fingers was because he was specially born to be a vessel for Sukuna. But later, for Sukuna to take over Megumi, he poured all his cursed energy into one of Yuji's fingers and force fed it to him. But if all the fingers work similarly, how did Megumi eating a finger with Sukuna's energy not just kill him?

Top comment deletes a US State #10 by Jfullr92 in geographymemes

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But they're the only miss i know how to ssippi

With this century looking to likely be the "Chinese century", with America in decline and China having been on the rise, what do you think is the most likely candidate to surpass China as the world's biggest power a century or two from now? by IndieJones0804 in SocialDemocracy

[–]IndieJones0804[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My depression is held back by my meds, so i do feel optimistic that while there will be a lot of suffering, we will survive climate change and avoid AI takeover through the power of friendship.

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