Lenin with boobs

If it does, then I’m glad some of us tried to stop it, at least.

“I can’t help Israel.” Well, that’s good.

And everyone dies.

Unlike real life where you’re unable to help anyone.

HARDCORE! INCREMENTAL CHANGE!!!

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a vote.”

— Mao Zedemocrat

“Overtly negative on anything from the West” lol.

Sorry I don’t watch slop I couldn’t know about that. I’m sure she’s very close to the real thing.

Mamdani is a compromise with the fascists. The only political alignment that isn’t fascist is communism, not including trots and ultras, ofc. /gen

The mods are just obliterating people here… It’s beautiful.

You are systematically dismantling your own arguments. “Tankie” is vague because it’s a word for a label and the underlying concept being referred to can be very different when different people say it.

Because then the workers are just owned by capital when the point of the economy is still to create exchange value.

What happens then is the coops that pay their workers less will amass more capital than the ones that have better working conditions and push the better ones out of the market. When the goal is to generate profit, then a company that is privately owned by a capitalist class is the most efficient at doing that.

Yeah, exactly and also if you mention the Gaza genocide on Wikipedia without putting in a billion allegeds then you’ll also be banned, the article you linked even admits the definition has changed throughout history to refer to different things.

Anarchists and what would become social democrats were calling Marx an authoritarian socialist during the 1st International. This is not new. This debate has existed for at least 160 years, just let that sink in, we haven’t come to an agreement on this stuff for 160 years.

wikipedia, lmao, I could go in there and change the definition, lol.

Imperialism isn’t a policy that states have, it’s a global system of extraction from poorer countries into the countries that control most of the finance capital on Earth, it’s not “big country goes to war with smaller country.” Russia does not control global finance, global finance will pretty much always be their enemy. A stronger Russia (if it was still a semi-periphery country) probably would be better than a strong US, you’re underestimating just how terrible the US is, and you’re comparing apples to oranges, because the US is a country in the imperial core and its bourgeoisie control capital on an international scale, the bourgeoisie of Russia have almost no power outside of their country.

The concept of imperialism that you’re using was first used popularly by Lenin, and it was an economic definition that described a global system. You should learn what unequal exchange is and what super-exploitation is, I think they’re good concepts. Also read Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah.

I’ll keep saying this:

One side is a hyper-financialized economy of almost only consumers, which sits at the endpoint of the most global supply chains, devouring on a scale that is devastating the planet, pushing the environmental and human cost of that production on the global south, and who basically only export loans, monopoly priced essential goods, and IPs back to the rest of the world, that feeds their surplus production into an enormous military industrial complex that they use to force this global extraction system on the rest of the world.

While the other “side”, we’ll start with Russia, is an impoverished hellhole place to live in that has been economically gutted, and now has been fighting a war against Ukraine that has been going on for over 12 years, a war that is being used to throw the entire military might of NATO member states against, not to liberate Ukraine, but to try to use the opportunity to fight a proxy war directly against Russia, and the real goal is to bleed out Russia so it submits again to other side and they can put in a new dictator in charge that they can actually control this time. (I, for one, remember the time when Putin was their neoliberal darling.) Supporting Russia is a bit like supporting Saddam, you shouldn’t support Saddam, the Ba’athists were morally corrosive (maybe too unfairly bad for this analogy, actually), but you definitely shouldn’t support the US military and their allied countries in the Iraq war. (Like if you want to support the people of Ukraine, do it in a way that doesn’t feed into the war, like hunger relief, or humanitarian aid.)

And China hasn’t been at war with any other country since the Korean war. I guess China just kinda sits there, menacingly, as they build their productive capacity. And they’re against Taiwan (which literally calls itself the “Republic of China” btw), but I don’t think they do anything at all other than negotiate and respond in kind when the US moves more ships and drones there. Then there’s the Uyghur stuff and the Tibet stuff, which I know there is probably a kernel of truth to, but I think that’s up to people in China to deal with, and definitely won’t be solved by like the US sending aid there, because again, when the imperial core does these things it isn’t actually about the people, it’s about exploiting the problems countries those countries have in order to tear them apart.

Idealist philosophy is the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity. Just totally decouple your goals from actual reality, and make zero plans on how to get there, then critique movements that fail to measure up to your pie in the sky. You see, actually achieving things is secondary to these people, what REALLY MATTERS is looking like a good person when you’re doing it. “They don’t want power, they just want to endlessly critique power.”

The ruling class has put in place a system that is impossible to change without doing horrible, violent, and socially unacceptable things, that is why it’s so stable.

I really wished we lived in this world where convincing people of your ideas was enough to bring systemic change, it just won’t for some things.

Amerikkkan politician in the gif, lmao.