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Reason: Trivialization of Genocide

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smdh my hed
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Trivialization of Genocide


State capitalism refers to countries where private ownership is the principle aspect and the bourgeoisie in charge of the state
Except when it refers to something else entirely, which Lenin did, to my frustration.


The term “tankie” originates from British psuedo-communists who supported the USSR using tanks against the Hungarian resistance, notably civilians, to impose their authoritarian and colonial rule upon them.
So you didn’t even bother to read what you’re replying to. The Hungarian civilians in question were bourgeois- & CIA-backed fascist counter-insurgents.
Socialist countries aren’t communist, you call them pre-communist which highlights my point.
This is just quibbling over semantics & context. When communists run a state, yes that state is technically socialist/pre-communist. That’s why those states have “Socialist” in their names and not “Communist.” There is never going to be a “communist state,” because definitionally communism’s long-term end-goal is a classless society. And since we define the state as a system which protects the interests of one economic class over others, such a society would definitionally be stateless.
So when someone—assuming they know what they’re talking about—says “communist state/country,” they mean a communist-led socialist state.


Even funnier is when “left” liberals think we’re conservatives, because no one but conservatives has ever pushed back on them before.
And the state of Israel has a right to exist
Why should a genocidal European settler-colonial state have a right to exist in West Asia?
This dead horse was already beaten half a day ago in this thread.


Believe me I wouldn’t have done it if I weren’t living there at the time.


The worst Mexican food I’ve had was in Spain. The burrito was wrapped in some crêpe-like thing.


Not for no reason: the mighty wurlitzer tells them this over & over to induce hoplessness or apathy.
If Trotsky’s ideas had been implemented, the USSR would have been ethnically cleansed by the Nazis, and the rest of Europe would have fallen to them, save Italy & Spain which were already fascist.
Regardless of the article’s nuance or criticality, Foreign Policy is a major mouthpiece of the US military-industrial complex.


OP, please post images instead of links to images, so we don’t have to open an extra tab to see them.

Some of y’all ain’t ready…
I think things will have to get a whole lot worse before people in the imperial core are ready.
This is our platform, dummy. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy

Edit to add:

Some people just seem to need the lies to be true 🤷 Back when I was a bog-standard Western liberal like almost everyone else, I believed all the same crap, but at least I didn’t build my personality around it.
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. – I. V. Stalin, 1943
You literally assumed that implication. And in any case, no one would seriously claim that every single person who the Red Army killed was a Nazi. That would have been literally impossible given that it was the bloodiest war in world history.
Deeply unserious pedantry.