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A capitalism truth pill people still need to swallow

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CIA assessment warns Israel risks civil war, state collapse: Report

I love how you just can’t help yourself but keep replying here. I guess being publicly humiliated is your fetish.

nobody is mad at you clown

Every damn time

here you go web.archive.org/…/hungary-economic-discontent-dem…

Is there ever a week where this doesn’t come in handy?

Several vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel

isn’t it SpaceXSI now 🤣

How’s that working out for y’all?

Yup, that’s the definition.

The funniest part about the whole tankie thing is that it was coined by British reactionaries in response to the suppression of a counter-revolution in Hungary, which has now been revealed to be a CIA op.

it’s a funny thing how memory works

^ a self referential comment

“A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?” ― Frederick Engels

There was no mass support. The US was cultivating a proto color revolution, a formula that’s been used time and again since then. What we do know is that in cases where there was no crackdown on Western funded reactionaries, then we got outcomes like in Chile. Thinking that this was some organic movement is frankly absurd. Also, can read up on precisely the tactics used, and how they have direct lineage in nazi propaganda november8ph.ca/psychological-warfare-in-the-strat…

The term authoritarianism is utterly meaningless because all governments rely on coercion to maintain their authority. The state is fundamentally an instrument that’s used by the ruling class to maintain its dominance. The whole notion that political systems can be neatly categorized into authoritarian or democratic binaries is deeply infantile. The reality is that every government derives its authority from its monopoly on legal violence. The ability to enforce laws, suppress dissent, and maintain order is derived from control over police, military, and judicial systems. Whether a government is labelled authoritarian or democratic, the fundamental basis of its power lies here. Therefore, the only meaningful questions to ask are which class interests it represents, and to what extent can it be held accountable to them. What ultimately matters is which class controls the institutions of state violence. In capitalist democracies, the government represent the interests of the economic elites who fund political campaigns, own media outlets, and control key industries. Western public lacks the mechanisms necessary to hold the government to account, and the ruling class is disconnected from the broader population. That’s precisely what’s driving political discontent all across western sphere today.

I try to avoid interacting with imbeciles in day to day life.

Oh they definitely are, but if there are gonna be shortages, then I imagine they’ll keep it for themselves.

indeed

You really can’t make this stuff up. It’s just astounding how the US is basically a hermit kingdom with the majority of the population barely even registering that there’s a world outside the US.

Oh, they cultivate anarchists domestically to do that.

The whole >90% of territory never saw a foot of German soldier was not where most of the destroyed urban housing stock stood. The war destroyed over 1,700 towns and 70,000 villages, which was roughly half the urban housing stock in the most populated and industrial regions, and left about 25 million people homeless. Many houses were built by workers in their spare time after work, on a land granted by the state and using construction materials provided by the factory or plant they worked at, but that was a supplement to state reconstruction, not proof that war ruin was secondary. The barracks aging is precisely what created the need for khrushchevkas in late 50s and early 60s onwards. Then brezhnevki with some improvements over bare minimal comfort of previous gen, and eventually from 70s onwards to the end of soviets the massive prefab took hold. There were countless experimental projects at different times and in different configurations, from 3 storey alpha builds of Khrushchevkas to Kyiv’s Podil 4 blocks project of late 80s, but all of it was a response to the war-created housing deficit, not a response to industrialization alone as you falsely claim. Aggressive industrialization wasn’t the fundamental explanation for the scale and duration of the postwar housing construction program. Wartime destruction was the main driver. It really helps to actually learn about the subjects before you start braying about them.

This Vancouver? columbian.com/…/share-encampment-cleanup-leaves-m…

A good discussion on the subject www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhHf4eHFfc8

Western liberals will cheer for the brave people risking their lives against state violence in some far away country. But the moment it touches their own country and their own skin, suddenly they only support state violence being closeted fascists that they are.

Wrong, liberalism is fundamentally a right wing ideology. Full stop. …substack.com/…/the-dialectics-of-domination

Read the book I linked to educate yourself.

Sorry, I always forget that books to a liberal are like garlic to a vampire.

More like laughs in being a shameful ignoramus helping spread literal fascist propaganda. During the 1932 Holodomor Famine, the USSR sent aid to affected regions in an attempt to alleviate the famine. According to Mark Tauger in his article, The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933: While the leadership did not stop exports, they did try to alleviate the famine. A 25 February 1933 Central Committee decree allotted seed loans of 320,000 tons to Ukraine and 240,000 tons to the northern Caucasus. Seed loans were also made to the Lower Volga and may have been made to other regions as well. Kul’chyts’kyy cites Ukrainian party archives showing that total aid to Ukraine by April 1933 actually exceeded 560,000 tons, including more than 80,000 tons of food Some bring up massive grain exports during the famine to show that the Soviet Union exported food while Ukraine starved. This is fallacious for a number of reasons, but most importantly of all the amount of aid that was sent to Ukraine alone actually exceeded the amount that was exported at the time. Aid to Ukraine alone was 60 percent greater than the amount exported during the same period. Total aid to famine regions was more than double exports for the first half of 1933. According to Tauger, the reason why more aid was not provided was because of the low harvest It appears to have been another consequence of the low 1932 harvest that more aid was not provided: After the low 1931, 1934, and 1936 harvests procured grain was transferred back to peasants at the expense of exports. Tauger is not a communist, and ultimately this specific article takes the view that the low harvest was caused by collectivization (he factors in the natural causes of the famine in later articles, based on how he completely neglects to mention weather in this article at all its clear that his position shifted over the years). However, its interesting to see that the Soviets really did try to alleviate the famine as best as they could. www.jstor.org/stable/2500600 kulaks slaughtered livestock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak#Dekulakization historynewsnetwork.org/article/169438 goodreads.com/…/589297.Fraud_Famine_and_Fascism #historyMatters

I mean, either you have a state that actually spend the resources to house people, or you get that.

the AI derangement continues

keep malding fash

enlightened centrism at its finest

Comrades, we must engage in fierce ideological struggle to determine whether the correct reading of the current moment comes from The Hunger Games trilogy or the later, more mature work of The West Wing.

It’s true, this is a much better solution en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_tent_cities_in_the_Uni…

if it quacks like a duck…

The economic crisis is exposing which countries have actual sovereignty.

Seriously, I find there are just a handful of tropes libs regurgitate like trained parrots. You really can just have a templated response to them.

I reapeat myself you’re an ignorant fash who thinks liberalism is the human default, your lack of capacity for rational thought is just incredible. Maybe go a read a book yourself for once in your miserable life. …substack.com/…/the-myth-of-the-default-society

No problem, reading Parenti really helped me understand the need for socialist societies to become militant in order to defend themselves. Once you realize these societies are developing under an existential threat, it all of a sudden becomes clear that they have to organize in a way that can resist it effectively.

this kind of stuff really does boggle your mind I find

I just love how Americans think they’re the whole world. Truly the most demented nation on the planet.

Western media regularly calls China and DPRK authoritarian.

^ how to say you’re an ignoramus who’s never read a book

Clearly, the only one mad here is you given that you just can’t move on and stop replying. I just think you’re a sad troll, I reserve being mad for people I have at least a shred of respect for.