Shooting people? Dude, you can shoot targets for fun. It is literally an Olympic sport. People like guns because they are fun to shoot all over the world and I'm not American. Maybe you don't like guns but trust me when I say guns and marksmanship are normal and popular hobbies, you just need a license where I live lol
If I turn my VPN on to America and look up Diyala or Baqubah it only shows pictures of war, the US genocidal forces and the CIApedia only refers to the time of Saddam Hussein and later.
If I just search from where I live I see beautiful pictures of palm trees and orange groves. Baqubah has been a city since Mesopotamia but the Americans just get propaganda.
Eh, that isn't really how Lenin describes it, maybe it is expanded on later after the October revolution. The dictatorship of the proletariat is not really a state, it cannot assume the roles of the state or the prerevolutionary state apparatus to be successful. A state specifically exists to manage irreconcilable class contradictions and the dictatorship of the proletariat exists to destroy that. It should be setting up re-callable positions directly involved with running society and quickly render itself unnecessary not to persist as a transitory state which would necessitate reconstituting prerevolutionary class. I am not sure that the lessons of the Paris Commune translate well to modern society of 9 billion people and there are many missing pieces to the withering of the state. For example his writings don't address revolution the enterprise. Personally I think that the Democracy@Work cooperative movement at the enterprise is a prerequisite to a state revolution.
ML's explicitly are anti-state and believe it to be in charge of managing irreconcilable class differences so it must be destroyed and replaced with something else. This is written explicitly in Lenin's State and Revolution.
Tell that to apple, microsoft, metaverse hype, nintendo virtuaboy, google glass, sony and the year to year decline in headset sales for the niche products that exist lol
I don't even know what you mean by this. I live in the hole. This meme is about how social democracy in Europe and America doesn't address its underlying economic model of exploitation. Asia never colonized Mexico 🤷♀️
To me leftists are revolutionary. I'm curious to know how you're going to be part of a revolution without an actual threat to power.