Yep, anyone can make shit up, like you just did. 4 million Nazis were killed on the Eastern Front in battle, a number far exceeding even the most outlandish figures came up with for purges, even if we assume 100% of those purged were innocent, which is of course wrong (the vast majority were proven guilty).

Now, in reality, life expectancy doubled while Stalin was in office, and the vast majority of those executed in purges (which wasn’t what happened to most that were purged, usually just party expulsions) were found to be guilty of crimes like murder, terrorism, espionage, sexual assault, and more. We also know that there was good reason for the purges, because the USSR was under constant siege, threat of war, infiltration, sabotage, and more for its entire existence, especially prior to World War II.

You don’t have a critique to make, you’re just repeating Red Scare mythology. Truth for you is less important than wielding the Red Scare like a club against those you disagree with, even if it’s trivial to disprove your claims.

Kind of a self-own, if you ask me. The modlog is public, it’s mostly you complaining about communists or having a persecution complex.

Yea that one got me, like, how? Haven’t seen that one yet.

They scratch themselves 🤷

None of what you claimed is true.

Incorrect, I don’t mean “publicly traded” as publicly owned, but actual public ownership, like state-run healthcare. Private ownership is the principle aspect of the US economy. As for working class control, you’re incorrect again:

Incorrect. Every single economy I listed has public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy, with the working class in control of the state. The fact that China is developed, and maintains markets for small and medium secondary industries does not mean private ownership is dominant.

I’m not talking about those imperialist countries, but Cuba, the PRC, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, former USSR, Nicaragua, Venezuela, etc. I don’t lionize the countries you assumed I do that fund their safety nets through imperialism. Both the US Empire and all of the countries you listed are indeed capitalist.

No? Socialism is far better, looking at how socialist countries prioritize electrification and balancing ecological protection with development it’s clear.

Yep, just wanted them to spell out their claims exactly. It’s much easier to debunk clear claims than vagueposting.

It isn’t, and I never said that it was. What exactly are you vagueposting about?

Genuinely funny, lmao

Here’s a diamat study list I’ve been throwing together (as a part of my prep for rev 3 of my ML reading list):

1. Dialectical Materialism - ProleWiki

2. Marxism for Newbies: Dialectical Materialism - Dash the Internet Marxist

3. On Practice - Mao Zedong

4. On Contradiction - Mao Zedong

5. Where do Correct Ideas Come From? - Mao Zedong

6. Anti-Dühring - Friedrich Engels

7. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism - Vladimir Lenin

List subject to change, but anyone who wants to dive into diamat can start here!

Please explain, the economy switched from public property as principle to private, and from the working class in power to capitalists. This is widely recognized as a transition to capitalism.

Wikipedia gives plenty on Adolf Heusinger’s involvement in the Nazi party and millitary.

Here’s a link for Hallstein.

But perhaps the most shocking thing of all about this speech is that Hallstein stated one of the most important laws to be introduced in the annexed countries was the “Law for the Protection of the German Blood, and the German Honour.” In other words, he advocated the imposition of the Nuremberg Race Laws as a top priority in “Greater Germany.” These laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying, or even having sexual relations, with persons of German or related blood.

No? What are you talking about? Getting real tired of liberals claiming to be anarchists that think they can say whatever they want about socialist states, regardless of its validity, and claim it’s simply “anarchist critique.” No, anarchist critique is based on looking at historical truth and evaluating it with an anarchist lens, not making shit up.

No problem!

Change usually isn’t linear, but a gradual quantitative buildup to a qualitative leap.

The fact that I disagree with you doesn’t mean I’m preventing you from speaking. I just disagree with you, plain and simple. Critique isn’t valuable because it’s different, but because it adds depth to understanding or corrects issues, neither of which I see really being done by your claims here.

The plain and simple fact is that China is steadily progressing as a socialist country, gradually focusing on building up the productive forces while maintaining socialism as the mode of production. As time goes on, maintaining socialism means the economic characteristics of market forces will continue to force the socialization of production.

You can not prove that the party has a proletarian character while it exploits labor, suppresses opposing political views, nurtures capitalist relations, nurtures petty bourgeois middle class delusions and presents itself as a state bureaucracy. This is the bourgeois character of the party, it is tangible and well documented.

The party itself is overwhelmingly proletarian:

Further, the political views suppressed are fascist and counter-revolutionary views. The fact that private capital exists does not mean the party is “nurturing capitalist relations.” China has contradictions, indeed, but the party itself is not bourgeois, and this certainly isn’t because they have a political party and state administration.

Rather than quoting my words and then talking right past me, it would be more productive imo if you actually like tried to digest what people say even a little. Thank god I get to have actually productive organizing discussions to keep me grounded.

I do, just because I’m not convinced by what you have to say doesn’t mean I’m talking past you. What you bring up often is either not true or is based on, say, Bordigist left-deviationist critique which is a whole other can of worms to get into. I do organize in real life, and that does keep me grounded as well, hopefully we can both continue our journeys to learn more and unite theory with practice.

They haven’t, though. They’ve always maintained that it’s transitional, just that it will likely take a long time. This is true since Mao.

I don’t really put much stock in what the friend of a random online stranger has to say. The CPC has 100 million members, and the NPC itself has a couple dozen capitalists out of thousands of people in it.