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Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 7d ago

Are electric cars a net improvement?I've heard that they are, because electricity can ve produced more efficiently and pollution can be better handled than individual car exhausts

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

What happens when the US and allies forments coups and starts bombing you?

Obviously, peaceful means are preferred by most people.Like, why would they allow you to take power peacefully?

Imagine you take power and want to redistribute land to the common people who were exploited and forced to be landless or without proper homes in the previous regime? Would not the ultrawealthy landowners try to coup you and get support of US and other countries?

Then you'll have to go there, right?Or you'll have to stop or allow yourself to be couped.

Like, in Russia, they took power away from a monarchy and came into power with the slogans of 'Land, peace and bread:. They faced an attack by the White army, which was supported by major foreign powers.

In China, they took power away from Japanese colonialism and subsequent mix of Koumingtang rule which violently opposed communists and the public who wanted land reform.

In Vietnam, they fought French colonialism and US invasion.

Similarly, in Korea, US installed a dictatorship to kill people who may have been even slightly sympathetic to socialism.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

Even in the case of slavery in US, the North, under the Lincoln govt, had to fight the south, right? Republicans were attacked in the south by Racial supremacist groups on that toom

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

Compared to the Western govts? Much more likely

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

Is USAmerica(worlds largest superpower) a successful capitalist country?Is slavery and Eps stuff a success?Success would need to be defined then, right?

And your notions on everyone having to be perfect seems to be wrong. The main basis of Communism is who owns the means of production and the level of development. The minority of the ultrawealthy in capitalism vs the majority of the regular people in communism.Also, capitalist planning that focuses on profit and externalises social cost vs general planning that thinks about the 'externalised stuff'.

And if you want to go deeper into critiques of capitalism and why we need to plan beyond that, I think looking up aspects like the crisis of overproduction and the tendency of the falling rate of profit might be good.Others here maybe better able to explain more on that.

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Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

Hypocritical, yes, but different from directly voting in favor, although effect is similar.

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Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

They abstained from the voteSo the last panel of them joining in would be incorrect, right?

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 2w ago

Who uses that term tho?I think it's used by progressives. So they might be blind to loneliness of women?

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 2w ago

Using a famine to justify Nazi glorification?

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 2w ago

Lack of practice?

I had started taking selfies with a smile to see how my hair was growing, to see which amount of hair seems good for me

My smiles in group photos seem more nice nowadays.

So, maybe try that?

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 3w ago

Bite-sized stuff?

I see cool quotes or memes that are also linked to recent/contemporary things and it gets my interest to look more into it

I have a friend and she thinks "its posh" to read theory.

Well, maybe recommending things that would be directly useful for her or things that she likes would be good?And tell that it'll also be useful to counter fake narratives and provide clarity in talking about it to others?

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 3w ago

I'm Indian, specifically Sourh Indian.We learn English in our schools and it is the main medium for school and college education.

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 3w ago

India is also the most populous country in the world currently and I think our percapita usage has not reached western levels. Atleast not US levels.

Though, yes, we do need to transition to solar and we currently don't have a Marxist-led govt like China(Would be cool if our leaders became pragmatic Marxists, but very wishful), but I think we are looking into solar decently.

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1mo ago

Well, USAmerican govt's propaganda(aimed to keep their people misdirected and supportive of invasions like that in Iraq) targets Stalin and other figures who had either looked at economic systems beyond capitalism or opposed USAmerican imperialism(directed by their ruling class), right?

Same for Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Che and even Nelson Mandela.

https://time.com/5338569/nelson-mandela-terror-list/The USSR and Cuba had aided anti-apartheid struggles in Africa.

Video snippets of Mandela talking about it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je5R5E8SOSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7cZBg4c4W4

Also, not saying that all those people were perfect, but the reason for the hate does not seem to be the imperfections, but them opposing or being threats to the interests of the USAmerican ruling class.

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Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1mo ago

For most folks in the west, stalin is considered to be a brutal authoritarian dictator who made a deal with the nazis to carve up europe into spheres of influence.

Do they not know of how the western leaders enabled the Nazis to carve up Czechoslovakia and opposed USSR's call for a united front against Nazis?

The Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, USSR happened after the Munich agreement where Britain, France and Italy came together to allow the Nazis and Poland to annex Czechoslovakia.

And if you think there were no agreements before:1934 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_declaration_of_non-aggression1935 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_Naval_Agreement1938 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement1939 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

And the next para from the text you quoted goes into the reasons, right? Searched with the text you shared and got this:

The point is that Marxism and anarchism are built up on entirely different principles, in spite of the fact that both come into the arena of the struggle under the flag of socialism. The cornerstone of anarchism is the individual, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the masses, the collective body. According to the tenets of anarchism, the emancipation of the masses is impossible until the individual is emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: "Everything for the individual." The cornerstone of Marxism, however, is the masses, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the individual. That is to say, according to the tenets of Marxism, the emancipation of the individual is impossible until the masses are emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: "Everything for the masses."

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm

How do you see his critique? Do you think that anarchism cares less about wider social emancipation?I don't have much experience with literature on Anarchism(or Marxism, but relatively better there), so would be cool to know your opinions on it

Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1mo ago

Aah.

Posing a question on this same logic(I don't agree with this, just asking to see whether you view it similarly. Also, assuming that you are USAmerican):Are the Southern states of USAmerica under imperialism now?Or is imperialism cool when it's the Northern USAmerican states doing imperialism on the Confederate States?

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Nemo's public admirer @lemmy.sdf.org 1mo ago

Doesn't Taiwan call itself RoC, while China call itself PRoC?So they both are having claims, right?The communists won in the civil war with wider support and the KMT escaped to Taiwan.

And atleast some people on both sides seem to be thinking about reunification. I think the communists are more correct, but ultimately let the people there decide on how they reunify.