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Honestly if people want communism and socialism to be taken seriously you gotta drop all the soviet imagery.
Tell you what, we'll stop venerating Actual Existing Socialists when you guys quit dry humping plantation owners and genocidal war mongers.
Get Jefferson of the $20 and I promise never to quote Stalin again.
calling Stalin a socialist is like calling North Korea a bastion of freedom, associating with people like him is why its so easy for the shitty rich people to claim we are evil
It's also like...
Calling january 6 funny
Calling russians humans
Calling tankman a video
Calling nordstream 2 sabotaged by usa
Calling moldovan elections rigged by the eu
They're all provably true, yet liberals will always lie about them.
Stalin was a committed Marxist-Leninist, and oversaw the world's first socialist state for the overwhelming majority of its most tumultuous period. He was no saint, but at the same time was no monster either. He is remembered by liberal historians as far worse than comtemporaries like Churchill who in actuality were far worse than Stalin.
As Nia Frome says, we can either distance ourselves from Stalin, and by extension the USSR and actually existing socialism, or we can fight back against bourgeois narratives about Stalin and the USSR, acknowledging their faults while being able to uphold their tremendous successes as examples of the possibilities of socialism in power. Historical nihilism, and throwing Stalin and by extension much of the early soviet union under the bus, was ultimately what allowed for liberalization within the USSR and partially contributed to the death of socialism in eastern Europe.
Demystifying Stalin
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Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
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History of the CPSU (B)
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Marxism and the National Question
As for the DPRK, it isn't a utopia, but it's also a democratically controlled country. It has 3 major parties in power, the WPK has the broad majority of control while a social democratic party and a religious party also hold minor aspects of control. They have worker councils that allow for democratic decision making, and people for the most part have their needs taken care of by the socialist system they have. The DPRK is poor, but despite that achieve far greater metrics than peer countries at similar levels of wealth and development thanks to their socialist system.
Thank you for sharing these resources, bless you
I'll let the various communist parties currently in power in countries like the PRC, Vietnam, etc. to distance themselves from the hammer and sickle, as you don't personally take them seriously.
Yeah, it's just me. lol.
I'm not aware of people not taking parties like the CPC, CPV, etc seriously.
New deal with Chinese characteristics!
President Xi, Liberate My People
#SOSTEXAS
China's socialist market economy, unlike FDR's New Deal, is commanded by public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy under a proletarian-led and controlled state, unlike FDR's bourgeois controlled imperialist state. Socialism isn't simply having safety nets, it's a mode of production.
Totally, totally. Those are the nets I think of when i think of their production. Very proletarian led, that's why they need all the cops and censorship.
It's weird how liberals will insist "one county, two systems" is a fiction, then point to a glaring example of Hong Kong labor policy and blame Beijing.
Nevermind the fact that you're describing Foxcon, a Taiwanese company focused on manufacturing for American and Japanese electronics distributed into Western markets.
That's the evil Chinese Communism you're complaining about. No word on when Americans plan to sanction Foxcon for these abhorrent labor practices.
The worker's state needs worker's cops and worker's censorship. Crime and cia outlets don't magically disappear in a worker's state.