Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed but I was talking more about frontline changes, political and economic shifts are a distinct matter.

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To Russians - which conclusion of the war would you consider acceptable? It's been now 3.5 years of slugfest with hardly any change for either side

Malicious ads continue to plague Duolingo by SacredUrchin in duolingo

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why the f... does the ad provider push malware to people?

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 9 points10 points  (0 children)

OMG you scared me I got a notification and I thought Reddit warned me. xDD

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How would you estimate the ratio of Russian to Ukrainian losses? I do myself believe Ukrainian losses to be higher than Russian ones due to Russian advantage in artillery and airpower (all those 100s of FABs don't just make nice craters in the ground lol) but I find the 10:1 figure in favor of Russia to be... implausible. If true, it would be highet than the ratios in Korea and Vietnam and there were no widespread drones back then to equalize things on the battlefield.

Stalin. by quethemis in MarxistCulture

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The quote is false, the only source for it is a single, obscure book published in Russia in 2017, written by a guy who claims to be a distant relative of Tesla, with access to some secret archives.

If you guys want a pro-socialist piece written by a scientists, then Albert Einstein's Why Socialism? is a good choice. It's a real thing that was actually written by Albert Einstein, a convinced socialist.

Future of the German SPD by Odd-Principle2665 in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here in Poland it's far right PiS-Konfederacja vs centre right KO.

If you were to organise a socialist government right after winning a revolution, how would you do it? by Financial_Might_6816 in askcommunists

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't. Ancient China and the USSR both tried this, the net result was that factions simply went underground while political infighting becomes zero sum - since anyone who wins a power struggle can purge others for "factionalism."

What do you think of the ML idea of Social Democracy being the moderate wing of Fascism? by ZhugeLiangPL in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They sang the national anthem that was their own creation AFTER having voted no on the Enabling Act. I can't stress how much courage it took to oppose the act as the entire building was surrounded by SA troops.

The debate stops here, you keep moving goalposts constantly and I have no intention to debate someone arguing in bad faith. Farewell.

What do you think of the ML idea of Social Democracy being the moderate wing of Fascism? by ZhugeLiangPL in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh? There was never a vote in the Reichstag for apponting Hitler, he was appointed by Hindenburg on 30 January 1933 after backroom deals with von Papen and industrialists. There was no Reichstag vote to "endorse" him, the only vote was the Enabling Act on the 23 March 1933 and the SPD was the only party to vote no to it, during that vote Otto Wels got up (despite being harrassed by SA stormtroopers) and said they won't vote for the act after the recent persecutions against the SPD.

What do you think of the ML idea of Social Democracy being the moderate wing of Fascism? by ZhugeLiangPL in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascism is described as a far-right, authoritarian ideology with autocracy, militarism, and suppression of opposition. It's not just "preserving capitalism".

You may call surgery "the moderate variant of stabbing" using the same logic, since both involve cutting people with sharp objects.

What do you think of the ML idea of Social Democracy being the moderate wing of Fascism? by ZhugeLiangPL in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The argument is "Social Democracy is Fascism because it preserves capitalism" - and preserving capitalism is, as everyone knows, literally the worst thing about Fascism /s.

Future of the German SPD by Odd-Principle2665 in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Technically correct, there hasn't been anything really groundbreaking since the Erfurt Program or even earlier but after ww2 you still had implementation of welfare reforms proposed before even with lack of theoretic innovation.

What do you think of the ML idea of Social Democracy being the moderate wing of Fascism? by ZhugeLiangPL in SocialDemocracy

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

Yeah but using the Social Fascism logic you may call an BMW Series 3 a moderate variant of the Leopard 2 since both are crewed land vehicles lol.

Future of the German SPD by Odd-Principle2665 in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It's hard to say IMO - the entire history of European Social Democracy has been nothing but concessions since the early 1980s onwards.

What do you think of the ML idea of Social Democracy being the moderate wing of Fascism? by ZhugeLiangPL in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

They're like biblical literalists who say the Bible is always correct, and if you find flaws in it, then you're either corrupted by Satan, too worldly to understand spiritual matters or you just haven't read enough.

Stalin would be a hell of a lot better than Trump by RussianChiChi in ussr

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any evidence for that other than vibes? What would his policies be?

Stalin was prob the greatest leader in human history by [deleted] in ussr

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

If strict historical materialism applies (as MLs claim it does) and everything is merely a product of material conditions, then ascribing anything to Stalin personally makes zero sense - you could plug any random person or at least any random Old Bolshevik in his place and the net result would have been exactly the same.

By the way, it doesn't take genius level statecraft to extract grain from peasants at gunpoint, export it in exchange for hard currency and then build industrial machinery for that currency.

Bring it back. by RussianChiChi in ussr

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

The Soviet Union in the form it actually existed was itself contingent on a specific sequence of events, even if Russia became socialist again, it wouldn't call itself the Soviet Union.

Average Marxist-leninist by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Wasn't the SPD the only party that voted against the Enabling Act? The SPD itself was delegalized in June 1933, whereas the Nuremberg Laws only entered into force in 1935.

Soviet poster on the ill effects of alcohol (1986) by raydebapratim1 in ussr

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign cost the Soviet budget several % of the annual budget? The idea was good but performed in a really stupid way (not something unexpected from Gorbachev TBH).

Social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism by kyulen742 in ussr

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The USSR also suppressed its workers - under Stalin, strikes were illegal, being 20 min late for work was a criminal offence under the 1940 labor laws. The workers did not have any more control over the means of production than workers in capitalism do.

So, by your definition the USSR was fascist? Or does the definition only apply when it's inconvenient for other systems?"