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Divorcing analysis of authority from analysis of class always results in these blanket condemnations of authority. This is self-defeating, though, and results in equating the majority taking power from the capitalists with capitalists oppressing the majority.
Only state violence is actual violence! Kulaks enslaving peasants and starving them to the point that their life expectancy is 28 years of age is just basic economics! /s
One thing I learned from my grandpa: “the Kulaks deserved it!”
Based as hell.
Everywhere I turn i see “that’s just the way things are” medieval serf-brainsd fatalism
They unironically believe this.
I’m just as much a socialist as you, but all of my positions conveniently line up with the US State Department’s and the only through line is violently enforcing white supremacy. Stand back while I use the word “tankie”
I’d honestly respect people more if they just admitted to being social democrats or liberals instead of trying to be this halfway house thing of socialism/communism with liberal democratic characteristics. Very common here on Lemmy.
As far as I can tell, the tankies are the ones whose ideas line up most closely with real world communist organisations. I can’t think of any serious communist parties that are anti-China, anti-USSR, pro-NATO, and so on.
It’s Baby’s First Thought Terminating Cliche. I can’t hear it without remembering that perennial tweet about someone’s grandfather being the most steadfast anticommunist they know because he’s illiterate and communist propaganda could never reach him.
And is this “existing socialist state” with us in the room right now?
Cuba, PRC, Vietnam, DPRK, Laos, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc. are all examples of socialism (or proto-socialism in Venezuela and Nicaragua’s case) in action.
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That also isn’t what’s going on in the DPRK, so I fail to see how that’s relevant.
Do the citizens all live in comparable luxury as Kim Jong Un then?
Living conditions vary. Cities like Pyongyang have better living conditions than rural areas, as an example. However, socialism doesn’t mean equal living conditions for all, especially in a poor country like the DPRK. What is true is that public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, the working class in control of the state, and production and distribution are focused on satisfying the needs of the people primarily.
Yes, Cuba is a good example
I’m all for lifting the restrictions on Cuba. I don’t understand why they are still in place. Presumably they were put there because of the cold war, but we are all buddies with Russia now, why are we still mad at Cuba?
I don’t understand why they are still in place
The US is explicit about this: “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”
I don’t believe the USA is buddies with Russia, though, they have opposing geopolitical interests. The fact that the USA is pulling out of Ukraine now is not because they’re buddies with Russia, but because Ukraine is a broken toy now that the EU has fully antagonized Russia as a consequence of the invasion and has subserved itself to NATO and agreed to the 5% military expenditure (mostly to buy weapons from the USA military-industrial complex)
Leftists when there’re no right-wingers to pick fights with ☝️
Sounds like your blaming people that fuck horses for the invention of the automobile
Care to explain what you mean?
