Augustus

Settlers was written in the 70s when this labour aristocracy was probably true and scientifically correct

It was written in a quite bleak period of history

Todays US though has hungry people lining up at foodbanks, hook worm (a disease of extreme poverty and had thought to be eradicated from usa) is flourishing in places like Alabama

If you went to these White working class neighbourhoods in the 70s you would have seen an industrial proletariat mostly bought off by the crumbs of imperialism

That isnt true anymore. They have no jobs and are high on opiods

hey comrade are you albanian?

i just watched this documentary on how Albania became Europes rubbish dump...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqkSH1YLXdg

how are things in Albania? i hadnt realised how bad things had gotten in Albania

Comrade you should learn from Roger Stone

Never defend. Attack attack attack

If someone brings up 100 million dead under communism reply with the fact 1.8 billion indians died under British capitalism alone

Then start rattling off all the death tolls of US imperialism

If someone criticises Stalin as a baby killing monster ask why he has a 70 percent approval rating (85 with Mao) in Russia?

You should mostly be gaslighting liberals that enter conversation with no good faith toward you - it is your job there to weaken liberalism rather than defend socialism

Once you get into this mindset its honestly hilarious

Ignore socialism for one moment

China developed from sub saharan African conditions only 40 years ago

They went from feudalism and a century of humiliation before the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949

Prior to 1949 the life expectancy was 35

20 years under Mao this had doubled to 70 years old

Since 1979 China has not been in a war and has gone from said sub saharan African conditions to a space faring civilisation landing on the far side of the moon and putting rovers on Mars

They did this without the hyper exploitation of colonies and wars of imperialism for conquests of booty

The Chinese people know what life was like a generation ago - their parenta tell them. The Communist Party of China enjoys a 89% approval rating of Chinese people precisely because they've lifted up the greatest number of humans out of poverty in such a short period of time

For that alone China should be praised daily by the world proletariat and the world socialist movement in the face of the most reactionary and murderous regime the world has ever seen (US and its puppets in Nato)

We can, of course, get onto comradely critiques of whether China is in socialism, whether they have succumbed to revisionism etc.

But we can only do that, as far as im concerned, when youve said your ten hail marys to China and thanked the CCP for it's unbelievable sprint of humanity it has done for the human race since 1949

So i googled the first on your list as i had a bet with myself hes plugging a patreon like so many other 'left' grifters

Oh what a surprise

I read a tweet a while back that went "tankies have no power: all the best youtubers are varying shades of anarchists"

Which just about summed up their entire petit-bourgeois, individualistic and faux revolutionary world view

If youre not in a communist party then you have no political power anyway and no amount of youtube celebrity (only a slight step up from Youtube comments) is going to change that

Im sure there is a definitive question of who is right and wrong in this 'struggle' to which i reply they are both worse

Anarchists are petit-bourgeois who come from the middle upper classes

To them the slavic Russians languishing at an average life expectancy of 39 and near complete illiterate population doesnt matter. It doesn't matter that the Slavs were considered a lesser race that industrialised at such a heroic pace to defeat the Nazis and go toe to toe with the USA and having incredible achievements to their name

When the Communists liberated the concentration camps after defeating Germany which had subdued most of Europe none of that mattered either

And when Russia had built a base for socialism which acted as a ripple in a pond which helped liberation movements all across the globe and sped up decolonisation none of that mattered either

To them, in their detached petit-bourgeois mindset, taking our current reality and changing it (by imperfect people creating imperfect structures) does not meet their utopian demands to abolish the state whilst capitalist imperialism exists.

Which is tantamount to surrender.