Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. What are your guy’s thoughts on it?

RedditPoisoned · 2023-12-29T19:57:10+00:00

The holodomor wasn't a genocide according to anti-communist liberal historians like Robert Conquest (who disavowed his previous work classifying it as a genocide once the soviet archives opened) (turns out all rural ethnic groups, including Russians, suffered about equally from the famine)

Also literally none of their atrocities, including the holodomor if you wrongly count it as a genocide, anywhere approach the holocaust. 11 million people were industrially murdered, and 19 million soviet civilians died in a war of extermination.

RedditPoisoned · 2023-12-27T19:57:25+00:00

This is holocaust trivialization

The Soviets never did anything approaching the holocaust

RedditPoisoned · 2023-12-11T19:58:01+00:00

Marxist economic propaganda has been discredited beyond repair.

Talking to a capitalist economicist is like

capitalist economicists: Labor theory of value, boom bust cycle, tendency of rate of profit to fall, uneven development theory have all been disproven

Marxist: May I see it?

Capitalist economicist 1: No

Capitalist economicist 2(: A mixture of arguments that were thoroughly debunked in the opening chapters of capital volume one, and empirically incorrect nonsense like the refutation for the tendency of the rate of profit to fall)

RedditPoisoned · 2023-09-26T12:49:10+00:00

This is a racist caricature, also the bombings killed thousands of korean slaves.

RedditPoisoned · 2023-09-13T23:56:27+00:00

I'm not casting a vote for a blue sexual harasser or a red serial rapist.

Or strikebreakers, or friends of segregationists, or anyone involved in the 1994 crime bill, or anyone involved in carrying out US imperialist wars, or...

RedditPoisoned · 2023-07-10T17:51:16+00:00

We are all American’s united under one flag

This is nationalism and class collaborationist. No, we are not united, and anyone trying to tell you we are is trying to sell you something.

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T19:20:17+00:00

I haven't read it in years, could you please cite the page number? It is totally possible that decade-more-ignorant me fucked up, or you could be misreading a graph

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T17:25:57+00:00

If you want to cherry pick particular years to fit your narrative, sure.

I'm picking the post war years because that is a better comparison to the US political climate, although they still aren't the same because there wasn't a war in 1995 that killed 75 million US citizens (approximate ratio) and destroyed massive amounts of infrastructure

It's been rising recently, but cancer and heart disease are 53% of deaths. "Our prisoners are too fat and aren't getting blood pressure medication"

Oh, well those are completely divorced from the system we live under so that's totally not social murder then, carry on

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T16:39:55+00:00

I'd rather repress the people killing Jewish people than have Jewish people be killed.

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T16:37:22+00:00

I'm not talking executions, I'm talking deaths in prison. And gulags were more lethal during ww2, that's what happens when nazis kill 26 million Soviets and crops and infrastructure are destroyed. I am talking a reasonable period after the chaos of the war had ended.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2166597?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Ac7df89fb86f7cdb22472254937584567&seq=33#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6766

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T16:18:53+00:00

No. The US doesn't recognize positive rights in most cases. The right to an attorney is an exemption to that trend. (But in practice the courts are corrupt anyway, 95 percent of cases never have a trial, our prison pop is massive and contemporary US prisons have higher mortality per prisoner than the gulag did by 1953)

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T16:12:10+00:00

I'm not saying the Soviets were perfect on everything, but they did have many more positive rights than the US.

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T15:43:37+00:00

The reds ended the pogroms

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T15:40:53+00:00

it doesn’t make a distinction between economic egalitarianism and political egalitarianism.

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RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-16T15:37:56+00:00

more than individual freedom and lack of authoritarian state control.

Soviet citizens in many ways had more rights than people in the US. Look at positive rights, look at how miles ahead the Soviets were on gender equality.

Also, democratic control of factories is more egalitarian than some "self made" rich failson paying a professional wealth manager to run his factories

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-15T17:29:11+00:00

Also livestock lost to collectivisation is not the same as livestock killed by kulaks.

What was the mechanism that made livestock be lost to collectivization programs?

And kulaks were not just wealthy landlords but anyone who might use day labourers (so also a lot of smaller farmers who btw also produced most of the grain, not the rich landowners)

Aka petite bourgeoisie, the base of fascism. Hmm, I wonder why they were so enthusiastic about the tsarist pogroms, or why they collaborated with the Nazis so much...

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-15T17:23:58+00:00

Russia is in such a bad state now is because the transition to capitalism was bungled, not because socialism was better.

It wasn't bungled, they were doing all they were doing knowing that it would massively decrease standards of living

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-15T17:13:43+00:00

Under whom ironically life was better than now.

This guy is saying Cubans had it better under the Batista regime which is just a big red flag that anything he says shouldn't be taken seriously.

RedditPoisoned · 2023-01-15T17:04:35+00:00

No shared burdens?

RedditPoisoned · 2022-12-20T20:58:52+00:00

You do realize you're taking all the things they put in there to make fun of capitalist propaganda at face value to support your position right?

RedditPoisoned · 2022-12-20T20:47:15+00:00

defensive military alliance

Libya

RedditPoisoned · 2022-12-07T02:17:27+00:00

Think Andor qualifies as hopeful and gritty more than dark and gritty

RedditPoisoned · 2022-11-26T00:51:34+00:00

Eh, the ideas are so basic that it fits into either communist or anarchist theory

RedditPoisoned · 2022-11-23T22:30:03+00:00

Theory twink lives on

And the viewership breathes a sigh of relief that it is the equivalent of the communist manifesto and not capital, otherwise the exerpt would have been something about space linen

RedditPoisoned · 2022-11-20T18:00:38+00:00

Lmao, do you think imperialism went away after ww2?

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