Red_Scare [he/him]

The federalism of Yugoslavia and the national policies of the USSR both failed and led to fratricidal wars.

Are we blaming AES now for the shit that happened after they collapsed and got replaced by capitalist states?

Yugoslavia and USSR both ultimately failed and collapsed, that much is true. I believe they could’ve survived if they formed a strong alliance, including China.

But the federalism of Yugoslavia and the national policies of the USSR were both incredibly successful in squashing ethnic tensions. People lived peacefully and most would never think fratricidal wars are even possible anymore.

At least with the USSR, I think things would be much improved if initiatives like korenizatsiya, zhenotdel etc were not abandoned.

I think it wasn’t so much rivalry as a side effect of the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam didn’t want to cut ties with the USSR so China supported Cambodia against them.

Same reason China supported jihadists in Afghanistan really. What came out of it was the fall of the USSR (Afghan war wasn’t the only or even main cause but a major one for sure), and China ended up with an extremist state on their borders which exported terrorism into Xinjiang, and the rest is history.

The immense misery of both China and post Soviet peoples in the 90s could probably be avoided if Sino-Soviet split didn’t happen, if they worked together against religious extremists and counter-revolutionaries.

And if the Tito-Stalin split also didn’t happen…

That the rate of exploitation is higher in the West? That’s his argument against unequal exchange, it was some YT video but I can’t watch YT right now, away from home.

He also repeatedly calls sex workers “wh___s” in his writings. And argues that Western workers are exploited to a higher rate than those in the global South.

you asked “What does this add to discussion?” what discussion? it’s just a meme.

of course China under the CPC is the most peaceful powerful nation in history and USA is the most warlike but that AI pic made my stomach turn so I commented on that

it’s just a meme

did it have to be AI slop tho

No, I read about them but didn’t try going through the actual files myself.

It’s pretty meaningless and unserious though. By “globalist” they probably meant neoliberal globalization which is basically the current stage of imperialism.

but you’re fine with “satanic”?

omg i understand nothing of this 😭 is this the official Ukraine govt account celebrating the death of Khamenei? that would track but why is there a picture of some sports team? whos the circled guy?

Yeah but is that defecting or just relocating?

Defect where? If you defected to the USSR as a nazi war criminal you’d have a bad time. I hope if any IDF butchers defect to Iran they get what they deserve.

His supporters are still handing out flyers claiming he was framed by the state for being a Marxist, I got one at the last national demo for Palestine in London.

Life in the USSR was so hard people born there in 1968 are 77 now /s

I’m just answering a poster saying anarchism is a lot like democratic centralism. Some parts are similar (delegation and recall), others are not at all (vanguard party, dotp)

I am an ML.

I never said I’m an anarchist I’m just explaining what anarchism is and it’s not what a lot of people here think it is.

how do you expect to protect your revolution with no vanguard or DoTP?

This is literally what I wrote in my first comment:

My disagreement with anarchism is different: I think only a state with a strong coercive apparatus can survive sustained imperial pressure and capitalist encirclement.

Definitely!

Early Soviets maybe, before war communism, for like less than a year… There was a reason anarchists tried to assassinate Lenin as a counterrevolutionary.