Always happens.
Cowbee
joined 2 years ago
Nobody, not even the USSR, claims they reached upper-stage Communism. They were Communist in ideology, and Socialist in structure. Their argument is a left-anticommunist argument against a claim nobody made.
I'm a Marxist-Leninist, if you equate taking theory seriously to whatever caricature of a tankie you hold in your mind-palace then I don't know what to tell you.
When did I say names determine structures? Even then, the DPRK is fairly democratic in actuality.
I can only read 2 pages from what you linked, and am not paying 40 dollars to read the rest, certainly not when they already display a gross oversimplification and anti-Marxist definition of Capitalism (critically leaving out competition, Capital accumulation, and so forth), and therefore take a vulgar revisionist stance. There's no analysis of class dynamics, just an over-reliance on the presense of Wage Labor.
Please read theory, I can make recommendations for the basics if you'd like.
The USSR never pretended it was Stateless, Classless, or Moneyless.
You have no clue what you're talking about, how Communism is "supposed" to function, how Marx, Engels, Lenin, and so forth believed it to come into function, or how the USSR functioned.
If you want basics on how the USSR functioned, I can recommend some books, or if you want a basic intro of Marxism I can recommend some works as well.
Perhaps you should read theory. The USSR was State Capitalist with respect to the NEP, but was Socialist for its entire existence
Yep, and beat the Nazis.
The USSR was Socialist, what on Earth are you talking about?
Incoming hatred of Muslims coming from liberals in 3, 2, 1...
What a genuinely wonderful speaker, anyone who hasn't yet read Blackshirts and Reds or viewed his 1986 "Yellow Parenti" lecture owe it to themselves to do so immediately. Unlike many other Marxists, he speaks clearly and in common terms, for direct communication with the average person. They are the best radicalization works I have seen, with the ability to turn liberals into Marxist-Leninists practically immediately upon finishing them.
Especially read and watch if you consider yourself left or left-leaning, but denounce AES as "redfash" or otherwise denounce the USSR, Cuba, etc. Blackshirts isn't so much a glorification of AES states as it is a critical examination of what they managed to achieve for their people despite their geopolitical circumstances.
Truly a wonderful voice.
PSL, to my knowledge, is technically Marcyist but is largely made up of MLs, not trots. They don't denounce AES to my knowledge like trot groups tend to.