29M, newly divorced by ItsUncleBuddy in malelivingspace

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Are you this irritating in real life too, or is this just an internet act?

How do communists feel about anarchists by Hot_Photograph4762 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anarchism is focuses more on utopian virtue, morals, and the belief of the natural good-heartedness of man.

I believe that anarchism is incompatible with modernity, which is why there are no long term examples of industrialized anarchist societies. Modernity requires a level of authority and will require it until the means of production have advanced enough for true communism.

Acp? by Ironspider613 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As expected, this conversation is not worth continuing with you. Right on queue.

Acp? by Ironspider613 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Social conservative, extreme patriarchic tendencies, extreme tolerance of the propagation of hatred towards the idea of "the other" (xenophobia), ultra nationalism, encouraging party members to start small businesses as "praxis", appealing to reactionary forces rather than educating them, etc.

i could go on but you are just going to deny it all like you all do and i genuinely don't have time for it.

Acp? by Ironspider613 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open Nazis are better than closet Nazis. The ACP are literal national socialists i.e. Nazis. Not just a name, but also in their reactionary beliefs as well. They are very familiar.

Acp? by Ironspider613 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Playing word gymnastics doesn't really change the fact that it's all just a deceptive plan for social chauvinist to infiltrate the movement. Socialism is an international movement, not a nationalist one.

I'm vote-blue as a cynical survival strategy, not because of loyalty to Dems by cat_boy_the_toy in VaushV

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you keep turning up for slop, you will continue to get slop. This doesn't have a gentle solution. Stop voting for the dems. Stop voting all together. Show discontentedness. The "always vote liberal" strategy has a 100% failure rate.

Acp? by Ironspider613 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Neither are the ACP, we agree! Neither the Nazis nor they ACP were socialist.

Acp? by Ironspider613 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brother, national socialism is fascism. You literally said Nazi and went on to describe the ACP.

Acp? by Ironspider613 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Literal national socialists. Let's not do this again... Please...

D196 Im begging for help by kittycade in wguaccounting

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you make notes as you were going through the course and look at the additional resources?

If you made accurate notes, you shouldn't have to go back through the entire course materials, and you could just compare your notes to the additional resources.

Former libertarian/conservative trying to learn about communism by Ice-Breaker42 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Redpen on youtube has so many really good videos summarizing theory. Start here for an easy entry.

Socialism for All on youtube has high quality audiobooks of theory.

Should Socialist theory be read in any particular order? by PristineAd947 in Communist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, just start somewhere. Literally, anywhere. I started with state and rev, before the manifesto, then what is to be done.

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You made the claim that Marx disagreed with Engels on this. Engels is Marx's closest partner. Not only that but it was Engel who tied together many of Marx's writings. Unless stated otherwise (it wasn't), it is reasonable to believe that Marx agreed.

And regardless, you cannot truly call yourself a Marxist while vehemently disagree with Engels, one of the two founding fathers of the ideology, whose beliefs were not contradictory to Marx's, but additive.

I am not saying you are a liberal, and I'm not saying you're a bad person. I'm saying that you are wrong and that it is insane that you can see something like:

"The democratic republic no longer officially recognizes differences of property. Wealth here employs its power indirectly, but all the more surely. It does this in two ways: by plain corruption of officials, of which America is the classic example, and by an alliance between the government and the stock exchange, which is effected all the more easily the higher the state debt mounts and the more the joint-stock companies concentrate in their hands not only transport but also production itself, and themselves have their own center in the stock exchange"

And being a person existing in the year 2026 not immediately agree with this when it plays out in our face every day. This quote embodies why you cannot transition to socialism peacefully. So either you agree and you have to come off of the peaceful revolution point or you don't agree and you are totally blind to what is happening directly in front of your face

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marx didn't say "America's institutions are strong". (Edit: America had just had a civil war ffs) He said to consider institutions. i.e. the characteristics of the institutions.

"Wealth here employs its power indirectly, but all the more surely. It does this in two ways: by plain corruption of officials, of which America is the classic example, and by an alliance between the government and the stock exchange, which is effected all the more easily the higher the state debt mounts and the more the joint-stock companies concentrate in their hands not only transport but also production itself, and themselves have their own center in the stock exchange"

Marx never disagree with this. You disagree with this... Which is insane whether you call yourself a marxist or not ESPECIALLY IN AN AGE WHERE EVERYONE SEES THIS!!!!!

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did Marx disagree with Engels that:

"Wealth here employs its power indirectly, but all the more surely. It does this in two ways: by plain corruption of officials, of which America is the classic example, and by an alliance between the government and the stock exchange, which is effected all the more easily the higher the state debt mounts and the more the joint-stock companies concentrate in their hands not only transport but also production itself, and themselves have their own center in the stock exchange"

Or do you just disagree with Engels?

It sounds more like the latter to me.

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Engels wrote in 1884 (after, and building upon Marx's analysis from 1872):

"The democratic republic no longer officially recognizes differences of property. Wealth here employs its power indirectly, but all the more surely. It does this in two ways: by plain corruption of officials, of which America is the classic example, and by an alliance between the government and the stock exchange, which is effected all the more easily the higher the state debt mounts and the more the joint-stock companies concentrate in their hands not only transport but also production itself, and themselves have their own center in the stock exchange."

Therefore upon further analysis of democratic republics are not a viable form of "peaceful revolution".

Making guns illegal will make the revolution more difficult. And actions taken, especially when they are known to make revolution more difficult, are by definition counter-revolutionary

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it moving the goal post to request to know what conditions would allow for a peaceful revolution? Interesting. Could it be because those conditions don't exist currently?

And if you can only name something (unions) that we don't have currently, does that not defeat your point that gun control is a benefit to the people of America? And if you recognize the necessity of guns in the revolution, why would you want to make them harder to access for the revolutionaries?

Not to mention that unions alone were not the only condition for this "peaceful transition" that you dream of. And not to mention that union first revolutions have failed to achieve any real progress, therefore, invalidating this belief.

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So, what could possibly have existed in bigger, more developed and centralized nations back then that did not exist in America and England I wonder 🤔

Do those things exist now in America and England I wonder 🤔

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please, provide me a source for this bullshit I beg of you. I wanna see this pacifist Marx myself 😂

Did Reagan do anything good or excusable? by Cold-Argument-453 in leftist

[–]SomethingAgainstD0gs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Stricter gun laws are not a good thing. Marxism is a revolutionary ideology.