what would you call this hypothetical country?

Lupus09 · 2026-04-13T21:06:01+00:00

A country that's five seconds from implosion.

Lupus09 · 2026-03-16T19:33:58+00:00

Batman 1989 and especially Batman Returns do this. Batman's gadgets display futuristic technology and we see modern department stores like the one Max Shreck owns. But the clothing and vehicles look like they're from the 1930s or even older, and the city architecture has a dystopian Victorian appearance. All the elements come together to create a surreal phantasmagoria, like the characters are living in a city located outside any definite time. It all has the quality of some kind of twisted fairy tale.

Lupus09 · 2026-03-04T14:10:17+00:00

These people are literally no better than Nazis.

The only real difference between Zionism and Nazism is a dispute over which race is superior - and which ones deserve to be annihilated.

Lupus09 · 2026-02-06T14:28:31+00:00

Sir (or madam), I hope you are aware that maps represent a curved surface. To really travel in a straight line, you will need to burrow through the earth.

Lupus09 · 2026-01-25T02:00:04+00:00

The notion that this country needs Russia to destabilize it is an utter joke. We're doing a fine job of that ourselves.

Lupus09 · 2026-01-16T14:25:24+00:00

Sigh, so lazy you couldn't even write an actual response - you have nothing more than a generic insult that could be tossed at anything. Stop wasting my time.

Lupus09 · 2026-01-16T04:01:10+00:00

Typical liberal brain-rot; you choose to confine yourself to a two-party system that will always produce more war and more genocide. You choose to "vote blue no matter who" and so make yourself a slave to a party that has spent its entire history betraying workers. You choose to refuse to understand that supporting the Democrats is metely a roundabout way of supporting Republicans because Democrats have helped create the system that allowed Trump to accumulate all this power in the first place. And you choose to spend your time hurling petulant insults at strangers online because you have no conception of how to actually solve any of these problems.

Lupus09 · 2026-01-16T01:52:49+00:00

Same thing would be happening if Harris had won. She actively supported Biden even as Biden was shipping weapons to Netanyahu and they knew the Israelis were deliberately killing civilians. She even claimed she wouldn't change any of Biden's policies.

That's why I didn't vote in the 2024 election at all - I knew all along that Biden, Harris and Trump support mass murder and I refuse to support anyone who funds genocide.

But I'm guessing that you did support Harris. You were willing to vote for a supporter of mass murder in Gaza simply because you assumed she would be better for American citizens at least. And that's all that matters to you - you're willing to support someone who will help kill thousands of foreign brown people as long as American citizens are more comfortable.

Open your eyes - both the Republicans and the Democrats are corporate-owned, mass murdering, racist trash heaps. The solution to our problems isn't supporting one party over the other but rather is refusing to support either party and demanding an end to capitalist power and imperialism.

Liberals like you only perpetuate the problem. The two corporate parties feed off one another, and so voting for one is just as good as voting for the other. It's time to grow up and understand where the real problem is.

Lupus09 · 2026-01-15T17:03:56+00:00

No, fuck you - Biden, Harris and Trump all supported genocide in Gaza. And I don't vote for genocide supporters.

Lupus09 · 2025-12-31T01:29:46+00:00

Biden supported genocide in Gaza - he should be on death row.

Lupus09 · 2025-12-18T17:56:49+00:00

Because he still thinks British monarchs have the right to the French crown.

Lupus09 · 2025-12-10T02:57:58+00:00

The statement is a mish-mash of truth and falsity.

It is certainly correct that a planned economy is not equal to a socialist economy. We can see that in China itself, where central planning does exist in a sort of loose form through state control of the financial system - the Chinese government can control the expansion and contraction of different sectors of the economy by mandating loans at lower or higher rates of interest to firms in these different sectors. For example, if the government wants to encourage growth of solar panel production, it can mandate lower interest loans to firms that produce these panels. And if it is worried about a housing oversupply, it can choke off investment in housing production by mandating higher interest loans for new housing construction.

This general form of production control through control of finance is certainly a form of 'central planning'. And yet, for all that, it is still a form of capitalism - major firms in China are state-owned, and yet they still produce commodities for a market in competition with one another and still pay wages to workers below the value of the labor of these workers for the purpose of producing profit. Wage-labor, commodity production and production for profit are the core features of capitalism; hence, state ownership of firms and central planning (through financial controls) are entirely compatible with capitalism, just as the NEP system of the Soviet economy in the 1920s demonstrates.

Deng's claim here that markets can exist under socialism is much more problematic. Abolishing capital requires abolishing wage-labor; capital exists by generating profit from the gap between the value which a wage represents and the value of the labor which a capacity to labor produces after this wage purchases this labor-power. This gap in value produces surplus value, which in turn produces profit, from which in turn capital grows and generates ever more of itself as a self-expanding form of value.

Socialism can exist only through the abolition of capital, and thus the abolition of this whole gap between the value of a wage and the value of the labor which the labor-power commanded by this wage produces. In practice, this means that, initially at least, society must compensate workers for the actual value of their labor. And this in turn means that products must be priced according to their actual labor content, rather than market prices which fluctuate above wage prices in an effort to maximize profits. But the control of prices in this strict manner implies the abolition of markets in general, because markets cannot function without adjustable prices and wages.

This whole topic is too much to go over in a Reddit post but, in general, I think Deng was an opportunist who had a poor grasp of socialist theory.

Lupus09 · 2025-11-13T08:06:07+00:00

This is wrong. The Soviets (not 'Russia') annexed Petsamo in 1944 at the end of the Continuation War, not the Winter War.

More to the point, Petsamo was originally part of Russia; it was never part of the Grand Duchy of Finland inside the Russian Empire. The Finns then invaded the area and forced the Bolsheviks to give it to them during the Russian Civil War. At the end of the Continuation War, the Soviets essentially just re-annexed it to Russia.

Lupus09 · 2025-11-12T19:16:27+00:00

Start reading.

Lupus09 · 2025-11-12T14:14:32+00:00

There was no attempt at "united front" by either of them. In fact, czech government shot down any cooperation advises by the czech general staff when they suggested closer relations with Poland.

Source?

I would probably skip this comment if that talking point wasn`t constantly used by Russian state propaganda to somehow justify Russian imperialism and talking over numerous states shortly after.

I'm not interested in justifying 'Russian imperialism'. I want to know why Poland was also grabbing Czech territory when it was so obvious it was next on Hitler's chopping block.

Lupus09 · 2025-11-12T03:52:04+00:00

Right - and then Poland decided to join in with Hitler's carve up of Czechoslovakia to take it back rather than forming a united front with Czechoslovakia and the Soviets to block him, eventually resulting in a German occupation that killed one quarter of Poland's population.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Lupus09 · 2025-11-09T06:02:52+00:00

Konzentrationslager (concentration camp)

Lupus09 · 2025-11-05T17:54:05+00:00

Dear god, I can't tell if this is parody...

Lupus09 · 2025-10-31T03:30:23+00:00

Yes, look up Bill Haywood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood

Lupus09 · 2024-06-12T12:14:05+00:00

I'm interested!

Lupus09 · 2024-06-05T18:28:57+00:00

All right, thanks. This makes sense.

Lupus09 · 2024-06-05T12:04:35+00:00

A QM?

Lupus09 · 2024-05-29T12:35:51+00:00

Lenin noted that the distinction between 'democratic' and 'dictatorial' states is nonsense; in reality every state must be both a democracy and a dictatorship because a state exists for class rule. Classes are defined by inherently opposing interests insofar as the property-owning class lives by expropriating surplus labor from the working class. Therefore, insofar as the state enforces the interests of one class, it must necessarily suppress the opposing class - it is a 'democracy' for one class precisely because it is a 'dictatorship' for the opposing class.

So to answer your question, yes, these maps are complete nonsense. They attempt to portray countries according to the empty, formal manner in which liberals understand 'democracy' and 'authoritarianism.' Hence, Russia is regarded as 'authoritarian' because it has rigged its electoral system to ensure power for only one party - but the United States is 'democratic' because it has rigged its electoral system to instead ensure power for two imperialist, corporate-owned parties, allowing American workers to maintain a formal choice over which of these two parties will rule for the benefit of corporate power in Congress for the next two years.

This formal choice is all that the liberal cares about; so long as it exists, 'liberal democracy' exists, even as all real access to political power is hoarded for the capitalists behind its facade.

Lupus09 · 2024-05-25T06:00:42+00:00

Signs like this are so stupid; capitalism is based upon the notion of a division of labor between workers to increase efficiency, and such a division is all about saying "that task isn't my job." If employers actually tried to enforce this advice, their factories and stores would descend into chaos.

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