discordialain.bsky.social
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Like, just go be a succdem or a state capitalist, at least you'd be honest with yourself, but you're not a socialist, and you're not a communist.
Can we be done now?
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None of them are even remotely socialist as the workers are not in control of the means of production, the workplaces are either state controlled or controlled by capitalists.
They're state capitalist, or have devolved back towards either social "democracy" or oligarchy
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Oh, right, not the first one, I guess. The Zapatistas, for one, plenty others, have existed if you bothered to read about em.
Anyway, that's it, you believe in nothing somewhere that's not in my mentions!
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You clearly demonstrated that you don't believe in revolution, you don't support communism or believe it can even exist, and I doubt you even support socialism.
Already answered all the other questions, I think we're done arguing. Just go be a succdem or whatever, don't fool yourself.
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Large parts of the international left were coopted by "soviet" money & influence, & still can't move past the failed project of state capitalism that can only ever recreate capitalism. The past 100 years have demonstrated what an abject failure state capitalism has been at furthering communism.
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You don't believe a stateless society CAN exist.
So how can you even call yourself a communist? You don't even believe in the concept of communism. Just state capitalism until the end of time, THAT'S your goal?
Like I said, the "soviet" union and the damage it has done to the international left...
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Lmfao, lol I can't!ðŸ˜
So what you're saying is that you do not believe in communism, even in the dream scenario of yours where all the "red" states have decided to voluntarily "wither" away.
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You might as well call yourself a liberal who thinks the tech oligarchs will lead us towards the "glorious" post scarcity utopia where everyone lives a million years or whatever. That's just as likely to happen.
Seriously...
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If you think we first have to have only "red" states around the globe, that will all decide one day to disappear one day?
That'll never happen.
You believe in communism as much as most Christians believe in paradise, in heaven/far off in the future after you're dead, if you're obedient.
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I. Literally. Did🙄 what do you think the monopoly of violence, a revolutionary spirit, workers control and mass organizing means? No weapons???
If you think communism is this fragile thing that will implode the second a state merely looks at it funny, then idk, I just don't think you're a communist
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It's either risk failing temporarily but inspiring others to take up the cause regardless, or never expecting to see an ioda of communism emerge, it'll just the same old state capitalist projects, slowly devolving into either regular oligarchy or go succdem IF you're lucky.
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Every "communist" leader convinces themselves that "their" people aren't ready cuz power is never ceded, it is against their own self interests to give up or endanger their own power by giving people the tools to their own liberation.
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The people need to stop accepting/tolerating state power and need to start believing in each other. Communism will never be achieved by any state teaching people any of these necessary easy to understand lessons. The people have to learn these lessons and teach them to their comrades
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Workers seizing control of their worplaces, people mass organizing direct self management & having the monopoly of violence, & a dedication to revolutionary action
Don't expect a state to do any of that for you. In fact, they've proven a detriment to everything any self-respecting communist wants
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From bonus chapter of Luminous=Blue
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$13,131 away from meeting this… $13,131 away from being able to look at myself in the mirror.
god, thank you all so much for carrying me this far. i can hardly believe it
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to acknowledge the past which precludes the ability to even envisage a future where cooperation is anything more than suicide; because party dictatorship or personal dictatorship the outcome is our executions. Collaboration is made impossible by this refusal to engage with these histories.
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to happen, have already happened and we are already hurtling towards a conflict over which we have little control by the trajectory of social processes set in motion long ago. We do not have time to ignore massive issues of mistrust any longer because we can not expect to trust that each has the
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reactionaries. It is not that we do not have time to argue our differences, rather we do not have time to ignore them any longer. We do not have time to wait to hash out these fundamental differences. We can all feel it around us, the suffocating pressure, the friction in the air. Things are going
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"Lenin was sympathetic to the anarchists! You have to realize it's just not practical right now, after the revolution, for sureee. Oh, btw they betrayed him and the workers with their chaotic banditry, they were a danger to the revolution!" And so on and so forth
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It goes, "Oh, you silly naive anarchist, you'll change your tune with us around quoting state and revolution, or..."
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Was all for leftist unity at the start, too, back when I described myself as a libertarian socialist, fresh out of 2016 Bernie, up until 2018, didn't last because one gets to know em
Those who don't assimilate to doing apologia for their idols end up becoming another face in their imaginary gulags
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It started with "he got his citizenship 9 years ago!" and it concludes with "he just got his citizenship right before the election!!!!" Now THAT was fast, the reactionary media circuit must've really pushed this into high gear