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What we've learned from this whole affair is that Russian army isn't demoralized and there is no potential for mutiny. The gamble was clearly based on the idea that a significant portion of the army would flip, and that simply didn't happen. Practically all of the political and military establishment showed unity against the coup. This likely allowed Russia to clean house well which means that this sort of fiasco is even less likely to succeed going forward.

Hope you're well stocked up on copium, gonna need a lot of it going forward.

Ah yes, providing an alternative to US exploitation of the world is AuThoRitaRiaN! 🤡

It's pretty clear that the proletariat very much do the ruling in Vietnam, China, Cuba. Again, it's not some uptopian society, but it is one where the government represents the interests of the majority. This is clearly demonstrated by the differing outcomes from capitalist states where the governments serve the interests of the capital owning class. Even in case of DPRK, productive forces are still largely turned towards the interests of the people as opposed to enriching oligarchs through exploitation of the working class.

Core industry of the country being publicly owned is the first step towards communism, and that's what socialist states accomplish. The current fight is to overthrow global capitalism as the dominant system. Only once that's achieved will anything better be possible. It's not possible to get to some utopian society from where the world is today, and this is what Marxists realize. Change is a process, and we look for tangible material improvements in the conditions of the majority. Focusing on maximizing personal freedoms before basic needs are met is simply a case of putting the cart before the horse.

Try reading your original comment sober at some point.

Seems like radicalization has been a process for him where he landed on Marxism after realizing that liberalism is a dead end in terms of providing any actual liberation.

All you've done was repeat baseless claims over and over like a broken record. Evidently that's what passes for making an argument in your head.

Having read my Marx, I know that Marx realized that Leninistic approach would be necessary to create a socialist state. This is the key disagreement Marx had with anarchists. Furthermore, it's obvious that when the world is dominated by a capitalist hegemon, socialist states exist under siege. The fact that you equate socialist states with monarchism shows profound lack of understanding of the subject you're debating.

Yes, I'm sure you prove a lot of people wrong in your head.

that's an interesting way to say that you're trolling and can't even make a coherent argument

clearly that's what you think you're doing, and it's adorable

I didn't know milk could age this fast