Ngl bro, I’m not reading all that bullshit.

I don’t think white people in western countries should be allowed to be communists cause that’s just hypocritical and seems like a deflection from realizing systemic racism is a bigger issue but that’s just me

Yet you could read the original post you responded to...

you are incapable of making a good post its honestly amazing.

Where do you think that systemic part comes from

You don’t think Stalin is a big reason Soviets never reached communism?

Great info though had no idea this was the end goal of communism I always assumed the end goal was a big communist state.

Lenin lowkey the boy. Very lowkey. I really believe he had good intentions.

Well, I don't think so. The Soviet Union had its biggest boom period right after Stalin died, so the downfall did not happen with Stalin. I think the stagnation started with Brezhnev in the 70s. Stalin might have been one of many root causes but not the immediate reason.

The idea of socialism, which I agree with Trotsky on, is "permanent revolution". Socialism is the transition between capitalism and communism. You have to change things up every once in a while, make the state smaller and smaller, and make the economy more and more democratized. The Soviets stopped doing this in the 70s. They were not socialist enough to have proper socialism, they were not capitalist enough to have proper capitalism. They were stuck in an ugly place in between.

That being said, Stalin of course made huge mistakes:

• Stalin changed a lot of Lenin's policies. Lenin had a more open vision of society. Artists like Proletkult society, or the legalization of homosexuality all happened under Lenin. Lenin also imagined a bit more of a council system (the word soviet means council in Russian), meaning that it would basically be lots of different councils, from bottom-to-top, governing the society. Like an apartment council, school council, neighborhood council and so on.

• Stalin was too paranoid and purged his enemies inside the party and the military, and couldn't reign in the secret service. He lost control for a while of the Soviet Union. He made too many enemies for no reason at all.

• Stalin had a very specific vision of what socialism would be and didn't support people who thought otherwise. This was one of the reasons for the split between China and the USSR later on. This also caused the anarchists to lose in Catalonia.

• Stalin was very naive in that he believed that capitalist and communists could be friends. Communists could have won the civil war in Greece, but Stalin was too afraid of making the UK angry. In hindsight, this was a strategic mistake, because the USA sure didn't pull any punches.

• Stalin let there be a resurgence of Russian chauvinism, especially in the era after WW2, which caused a lot of resentment amongst minorities. Things like forced migrations.

These are the big negatives I can think of. The biggest positive is obviously winning World War 2 and taking a backwater agricultural country that was on the level of Brazil into a space-faring superpower within the span of three decades, but Lenin or Trotsky would have achieved that too.

The end-goal is to have a society where the people rule themselves, a state as we know it does not exist, money has been abolished, classes have been abolished and people are free to do as they please as long as they do not harm others. Furthermore, any labor that will be done will only be for the usefulness of people, not for the pursuit of profits.It is obviously an ideal and perhaps it may never be reached, but humans should always strive for something better and never be complacent IMO.

Marx famously put it this way:

"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."

A communist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

What did Reagan even mean when he said this lmao

It's stupid anyway tho

Its funnier cuz u know hes never read them

it's funny because you can literally have that same quote about anything: religion, capitalism, whatever. not insightful at all lmao

most people have never read das kaptial

why wouldn't someone read it even if you not in that political spectrum tbh, knowledge is power

Ain't that the tragedy of good intentions
Why do they always seem to pave a road towards savagery and murder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_R9bpdndE

My boy (who is a hyper capitalist) read it and called it the best book ever

Had to explain to him that Marx was actually denouncing capitalism

Gang will watch this after I get off GTA

lenin was an opportunist

How so. Do you mean this negatively?

Imagine not being apart of the Birthday Party