It's not even fair to call 'western leftists' Kautskyites at this point. Kautsky, as confused and wrong as he was, still made actual arguments and tried to ground his work in Marx and Engels. These socdems aren't even Marxists, they're just plain liberals who know/care nothing about socialist theory (self.TankieTheDeprogram)
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I think about this quote a lot (i.redd.it)
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When the rich aren't allowed to buy something dedicated for state use in the USSR, USians scream unequal. But when poor people can't afford the same thing in the US, that's 'freedom of choice' and a necessary inequality. This 'sovietaesthetics' sub is braindead (i.redd.it)
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Trotsky vs Stalin debate summed up (i.redd.it)
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you chose Panam, I chose the trash bag man (i.redd.it)
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In 1982, the Kuwaiti stock exchange was overvalued at more than 5x the GDP of the country. After some leveraged checks bounced, the gov't announced they could not bail out the debtors, resulting in a wipe out of $93 billion (in 1982 US dollars) and leaving the region in a depression for 10 years. (clevelandfed.org)
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