Read Marx, especially if you don't think you need to.
Cowbee
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Where is a better place to discuss? Certainly not Lemmy.world, which has a right-wing bias. I've been better able to have discussions on Lemmy.ml than Lemmy.world, personally.
What metric are you using to determine if a country is "better" or "worse?" Can you explain what you mean there? Additionally, how is China "already working hard on enslaving the poorest countries in the world?"
When I say the US Empire is the worlds worst and largest parasite, I say so with careful analysis of how it treats the Global South and where it does the bulk of its exploitation. It isn't a simple "west bad, therefore east good" calculation.
They have an endless buzzword pocket that they cycle around. Marxist-Leninist, Communist, Socialist, Transgender, Illegal, CRT, DEI, etc.
Social programs are not socialism. The covid checks were not socialist.
Those are found in the nordics, that's still dependent on Capitalism as the basis unless you also want to entirely restructure government.
Social programs are not socialism.
Nope. The USSR obviously wasn't in the Imperial core.
According to Cormac McCarthy? Yes.
I do know what communism is, I do not need to read some random book you refer to to "understand".
So I should read books that communists are talking about?
Evidently you do not understand if you don't even know what Communists advocate and are unwilling to learn, despite your protests otherwise.
Go get a history book instead or trying to pump up your communism with cozy democracy.
I have, I recommend Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti. Super good book on what did and didn't work in the USSR, and how it was dissolved, and how the Capitalist aftermath killed 7 million people. Communism is perfectly compatible with democracy because it's democratic.
Democracy is good, communism is an utopian dream that is very nice but never functions, like anarchism and a bunch of others. But I guess your book says that it can work, like for real this time.
Communism did and does work. Communists are anti-Utopian, they don't believe there's a magic system you can just will into existence if everyone believes hard enough, but instead must be built. I suggest reading Socialism: Utopian and Scientific for more information, it goes over the failures of Utopian Socialists like the Owenites and how Marxism is Scientific instead.
You don't need to answer, we're on completely different wavelengths here.
Evidently. I advocate for reading and learning about subjects before speaking about them, and you advocate for deliberately not reading lest you be "corrupted" or "indoctrinated." I have engaged with Liberalism all my life, and don't consider myself "indoctrinated" by it despite that, so I don't think reading a single book or two will "indoctrinate" you.
Good luck with your communism though, I'm staying in democracy!
Again, Communism is democratic, just not reformist.
Syndicalism is nice, but without a solid analysis of Imperialism it risks taking on a Nationalist character if you're in the Imperial Core. Additionally, if you're in a de-industrialized nation like the United States, worker organization is more difficult along union lines, which is partially why Unions have historically struggled in the United States in recent years.
100% agree on reading theory and joining an org, just wanted to add some caveats.