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Socialism_Everyday

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  • the ongoing merger of liberalism and fascism

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  • Hey Cowbee, I see you often here, commenting on the election results. This will be ignored by liberals because they're too far into propaganda, so instead I made a little copypaste explaining why there cannot be free and fair elections in Venezuela. Feel free to use any or all of it:

    Maduro is not an illegitimate leader. The Bolivarian revolution was widely supported among the people of Venezuela and freed millions from poverty, until USA sanctions demolished their economy. The express purpose of USA sanctioning, according to the US government is to, and I quote, "bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government". USA+EU sanctions additionally murder half a million innocents per year according to recent serious sociologic and medical studies.

    By defending regime change under extreme economic sanctioning, you're approving the murders of 38 million people over the past 50 years of economic sanctions, and directly supporting the CIA strategy of "impoverish them until they change their minds".

  • Western "anticapitalists" be like

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  • Surely then you reject Britain belonging to NATO and advocate for an antimilitaristic stance and the reduction of military budgets?

  • Western "anticapitalists" be like

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  • I measure a movement by its achievements, not by its arrested

  • Infallible logic

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  • Hey, this ragebait took me quite a while to make, not that low effort.

  • Infallible logic

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  • While that's part of it, you can also see plenty of hate towards landlords in western countries, because people are suffering the consequences of landlordism (when it comes to housing). The main problems IMO are Eurocentrism and American Exceptionalism.

  • Infallible logic

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  • No but you see, Lenin and Fidel Castro only took power because they were very smart authoritarians. Why did the military support them, you say? Well, obviously because claiming "I'm the president now" gives you total control over the institutions, that's how authoritarianism works!! /s

  • Western "anticapitalists" be like

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  • 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

  • Western "anticapitalists" be like

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  • "I'm a socialist, that's why I believe in milquetoast reformism for western capitalist nations but for radical regime change in socialist China"

  • Western "anticapitalists" be like

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  • Yes, Cuba is a good example

  • Victims of Communism

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  • I'm aware

  • Victims of Communism

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  • So they weren't allowed to exist in the same comparable peace than capitalistic nations

    I think this logic is flawed. Capitalism isn't allowed to exist in peace either, and this logic leads to constructs like "Pax Romana" getting credibility. Capitalist countries have also coexisted with the constant threat of other capitalist countries, and carried out repression accordingly.

  • Victims of Communism

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  • I've already thought of this quite a bit and reached a conclusion, that I like to call "the gulag museum problem".

    As a communist myself: many people were brought unjustly to prisons in the hardest years of the USSR and suffered greatly there, probably hundreds of thousands of innocents. Should there be a museum dedicated to them? Yes.

    However, this is focusing on one event in one particular difficult time of history in one particular socialist country. If we start counting the victims of capitalism and colonialism, and compare to communism, we will reach astonishing numbers. The problem is therefore not the existence of the gulag museum: the problem is that for every gulag museum, there should be 20 museums about the victims of capitalism/imperialism/colonialism.

  • Venn diagram of cops and bastards

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  • Many Nazis also signed up with good intentions to the Werhmacht

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  • "AlJazeera is Hamas Ruzzian propaganda!!"

  • Liberal vs leftist

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  • So trueeee

  • Liberal vs leftist

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  • It's not just weird, it's materially impossible. History doesnt move according to big ideas exclusively, the main driver of history is materialism. Feudalism gave way to capitalism not because someone conceptualized capitalism and made it become real, but because the historical development of feudalism led to the primitive accumulation process of capital, the progressive appearance of a bourgeois class, and this was accelerated by western imperialism and the exploitation of resources in the global south by European powers.

    Once the accumulation of capital had taken place and the main economic driver of the economy had become capitalism, it was impossible to return to feudalism, capitalism became a historical necessity. A return to feudalism is simply unfeasible.

  • My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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  • You jest but this is genuinely what libs believe

  • Anarkiddies

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  • My implication was simply that they are allowed to exist because they happen to align with geopolitical US interests in the region, and otherwise would have likely disappeared.

    You didn't respond to my comments on the Machnovschina

  • Anarkiddies

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  • Would you say the same about the Zapatistas?

    Not sure, to be honest, I would have to read more about the Zapatistas. They absolutely are a micronation with no geopolitical power whatsoever, though.

    Or the Makhnovshchina. They fought against the Bolsheviks so in your black white thinking, they are evil, right?

    I never called Rojava evil, and I don't think they're evil, so don't put those words in my mouth. Regarding Makhnovshchina: if they weren't capable of enduring a civil war-destroyed red army, how were they supposed to survive Nazi genocide? How is a loose set of preindustrial farmers going to stand a chance against total extermination by an industrial power? And no, Vietnam isn't an example because Vietnam was well funded and armed by the Soviets. No Soviet weapons, no Vietnam.