I didn't expect this to gain so much traction tbh.

I suggest any non-communists to just turn a blind eye to this post and its comments, its just going to read like insane people talk and its not going to lead to anything productive imo.

That being said, I don't agree with the Stalin administration's deportation policies, and many of their policies as a matter of fact. But Kulaks were not a race or anything of that sort, they were a class of wealthier peasants and in class war there can be excessive violence of that sort. Additionally, most gulag deaths happened in the second world war, when supply chains broke causing many to starve.

There are numbers that are just straight up pulled out of a magicians hat too, like if you've ever heard of the 60 million deaths figure, that's just baseless. Even the 20 million deaths estimate counted German soldiers as well as soviet casualties as if Stalin was the one who killed them and not Hitler.

These horror stories of Stalin are an incredibly effective way of keeping people from the class struggle, because if it leads to a genocidal dystopia every time, may as well just accept the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, may as well let wage slavery continue knowing that the alternative is hell incarnate on earth.

99% of adventurists quit right before they achieve proletarian revolution

anarchist W because supply chains are authoritarian they let us have all the supplies

I notice a peculiar phenomena where some leftists will agree with base and superstructure theory as well as nod along at the quote "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" but for some reason they don't consistently apply them.

Needless to say, the dominant press is the bourgeois press. The dominant historiography is bourgeois historiography. Hell, even the dominant Marxism is an impotent bourgeois Marxism.

Some leftist want to look 'reasonable', but in this epoch it's a choice between being right and looking 'reasonable'. Demanding an end to private property is not 'reasonable', calling to armed struggle against the ruling class is not 'reasonable', wanting more than concessions is not 'reasonable'; any true Marxist will not ever be 'reasonable' in the eyes of the dominant ideology.

I don't get why people call the police. They're a rather untrustworthy bunch in most countries.

Socialism: what comes after a successful proletarian revolution; proletarian dictatorship, a proletarian controlled state; the big bourgeoisie has been liquidated but other classes might still exist within the society as proletarianization is an ongoing process.

Communism: what comes after socialism has developed to a high stage world-wide; stateless, classless, and moneyless society; the working classes have been merged into one class, the bourgeoisie worldwide has been liquidated.

For a socialist educated populace, the idea of bringing back capitalism sounds ridiculous. It's why the revisionists had to boil the frog to bring about capitalist restoration in socialist countries, and this was possible because there are capitalist elements within socialism as socialism emerges from capitalism.

Under communism, even the most clever revisionists can't do anything to revive the corpse of capitalism because it's just straight up dead on a world scale and the capitalist elements are all but gone.

Under socialism, I don't believe there should be freedom of speech for reactionaries, there's still an active class struggle going on in the ideological sphere. Letting old ideas fester in the superstructure runs the risk of capitalist restoration.

Under communism, sure whatever, it's not like any remaining reactionaries can do anything at that point.

anarcho-capitalism and libertarianism are ideologies of the petit-bourgeoisie, they are too weak of a class to actually impose their ideologies on the world. the only thing you get from libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism in the real world is the big bourgeoisie using it as justification when its convenient, meanwhile they hypocritically use the government for their own benefit.

That video should have marked the deathblow of Cointelpoints' channel. Without being outright explicit about it, she basically made a Nietzschean point about the ressentiment of the underclass, which of course she valued as bad. Actual counter-revolutionary rhetoric, but what did anyone expect really.

Not going to judge a book by its cover but that title doesn't inspire much confidence. I'm guessing it means Social Democracy's ignored success.

"And i don’t mean stuff like deepfakes/sora/palantir/anything like that" bro, we don't live in a world where LLMs are excluded from those uses

the technology itself isn't bad, but we live in a shitty capitalist world where every instance of automation, rather than liberating mankind, fucks them over. a thing that can allow one person to do the labor of many is a beautiful thing, but under capitalism increases of productivity only lead to unemployment; though, on the bright side, it consequently also causes a decrease in the rate of profit.