Litrally 1994

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  • Same, I use an iPod for music, I try to pay with cash when possible and my main laptop is 15 years old. It’s idiotic that they want to move already existing offline things into cloud based subscription based ones, and how they slow down and stop updates for capable devices, and how they intentionally make things extremely hard to repair.

    On the smart phone, it is an incredible tool humans have dreamed of for years (The collective information of humanity and the ability to communicate with people 1000s of kilometers away all in your pocket), yet the capitalists managed to make it as addictive as possible, to the point people would do horribly stupid things to please its algorithm and spend 7+ hours a day on it mindlessly scrolling without purpose.

    Maybe it’s a power humans weren’t meant to have or its a ploy by the capitalists to distract and deceive the working class, but I digress.




  • Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlCapitalism
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    Lenin, however, didn’t create Marxism-Leninism, and never said anything that deviated from Marx.

    He didn’t create it, he created the principles for it, expanding on Marx.

    Additionally, the move towards this “mixed-economy” you refer to, and the move closer and closer to capitalism signified a retreat, not a step towards socialism. Lenin says this in multiple speeches and reports.

    The New Economic Policy was adopted because, in the spring of 1921, after our experience of direct socialist construction carried on under unprecedentedly difficult conditions, under the conditions of civil war, in which the bourgeoisie compelled us to resort to extremely hard forms of struggle, it became perfectly clear that we could not proceed with our direct socialist construction and that in a number of economic spheres we must retreat to state capitalism. We could not continue with the tactics of direct assault, but had to undertake the very difficult, arduous and unpleasant task of a long siege accompanied by a number of retreats. This is necessary to pave the way for the solution of the economic problem, i. e., that of the economic transition to socialist principles - V.I Lenin

    Many of the people targeted were Lenin’s old friends and associates. Many were heroes of the civil war. These were people who were heavily involved in the revolution- people who risked everything to bring about revolution in Russia

    It was Yezhov who executed them, he was later executed himself for his crimes. Many of them were committed to Stalin and his ideas for socialist development, for example Lazar Kaganovich, and only a few of them were putchists (Like Trotsky) or traitors. I’d like to see your source for the supposed ‘hundreds of thousands’ killed by these purges.

    It is an insult to the socialist system to say that an “opportunistic and traitorous” Stalin would be able to become a “dictator” within it.




  • ‘Marxism Leninism’ was created by Lenin a deviation of Marxism suited to the conditions for the newly founded USSR, and it set forth by Stalin. Just because Stalin stimulated economic growth through a mixed economy doesn’t make him a ‘traitor’ or a ‘capitalist’, as it helped develop the industries the USSR needed to fend off the fascist threat during WW2, as the Chinese and Vietnamese are doing today. Also, what was so ‘nationalist’ about the USSR’s foreign policy? It promoted local languages and cultures in all the Soviet republics, and just because Russian was the lingua franca, that doesn’t mean that Stalin was ‘Russifying’ the many republics. Lastly the USSR started collectivization of farms and nationalization of the many industries (Increasing the quality of life dramatically) during his time along with an alliance with independent politicians (Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans), as for the Red Guard, some of them were opportunists or traitors (Like Trotsky, Yezhov, or Bukharin)









  • but at least I know they won’t actually try to kill me.

    Ask the hundreds of millions of corpses in Indonesia, Brazil, Guatemala, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Grenada, Iran, etc, etc. if they think liberalism ‘won’t actually try to kill them’ if they have an opinion that isn’t aligned with capitalist interests.

    I don’t oppose Marxism-leninism. Tankies are by definition not marxist.

    ’Tankie’ is literally the word your sect uses to describe Marxist Leninists

    Workers’ rights and class struggles and have gone full into adopting far right conspiracies in order to grab hold of the extremist votes

    Such as? By the way worker’s rights and socialism cannot be attained simply by voting

    as people who condone genocides commited by states which defined themselves as “communist”, so it’s extra weird to have to defend this notion

    Examples?