I didn’t write any insults. I attacked your arguments. I said they were reminiscent of Jordan Peterson’s word salad. I’m saying you aren’t saying anything of substance. You’re stringing a bunch of lofty concepts together in an attempt to sound smart, but you aren’t saying anything at all.

I think that’s what Marx was doing at many times too, but unfortunately some people are incapable of questioning it and instead just repeat it verbatim.

The PRC has a Socialist Market Economy

No they don’t, they have a capitalist economy. Absolutely nothing about China is socialist. You are eating up and regurgitating their propaganda without question.

Advocacy for Socialism isn’t necessarily based in mystical properties of participating in a collectivized structure, but more of a materialist question of efficiency.

This is more of that vague word salad I referred to earlier. You didn’t say anything here. “mystical properties of participating in a collectivized structure”, “materialist question of efficiency”, these phrases don’t mean anything. You’re just stringing polysyllabic words together to sound smart.

They democratized the economy,

They had absolutely no democracy.

ended famine in a country where that was regular

They deliberately caused famine.

dramatically lowered wealth inequality while maintaining high economic growth

They were ended by the very corruption and wealth inequality you claim they lowered.

defeated the Nazis,

With the help of capitalist empires.

proved that a publicly driven and planned economy works well

It did not work well.

provided free and high quality healthcare and education

We do that in Canada, too.

The USian fear of countries that went against the US Empire’s dominance and provided an alternative to it based in Red Scare propaganda is a problem that must be confronted, not thrown under the bed and avoided.

Yet you dismiss everything bad ever said about the USSR as “Red Scare propaganda” to conveniently throw it under the bed and avoid it.

As for the PRC and Canada, this is much the opposite. The PRC has a Socialist Market Economy driven by Marxist economics.

China has banks. Stock markets. Billionaires. Absolutely nothing about their economy is socialist or is driven by marxism.

You can’t back these statements up with any evidence. You just make bold proclamations and assert them as true because you said they were, and if anyone doubts you they just have to “read theory”.

Large firms and key industries like banking and steel are overwhelmingly in public ownership and control, while the private sector is overwhelmingly populated by self-employed people, cooperatives, and small businesses.

None of what you just said here is true.

If you write without reading and learning from your predecessors, you’ll repeat their mistakes and fail to replicate their successes.

Yes, but unfortunately you have dismissed everything you have read as “Red Scare propaganda”, or likely “Yellow fever propaganda”.

Dialectical Materialism asserts that material reality drives the progression of history, and is the primary determiner of ideas, but that these ideas of humans influence them to reshape reality. This process works in endless spirals.

This reads like the word salad Jordan Peterson spews. It’s vague and doesn’t make any sense. Here’s a better image.

Excuse me I was told that anyone who says “people view disagreement as moral monstrosity” is actually a nazi.

I think we should absolutely be learning from Lenin and the USSR.

Learning from their mistakes. Not emulating a failed brutal authoritarian dictatorship.

I don’t see what is “backfiring,”

Americans fear the word “socialism” because they associate it with brutal authoritarian dictatorships. Your love of Lenin and the USSR isn’t helping with that.

The PRC learned from what succeeded and what failed in the Soviet Union, and is currently overtaking everyone else.

The only thing the PRC learned was to abandon socialism. Canada is more socialist than the PRC.

You keep linking books to read. I think we’ve read enough. It’s time to start writing.

Instead of thinking that big ideas or beliefs drive history,

So dialectical materialism rejects the notion of ideologies like socialism?

A worker cooperative in an economy dominated by private Capital is not an instance of Socialism, as it depends on the broader Capitalist system.

I’ve already addressed how this absolutism doesn’t track with logic, I just hope people stop repeating it so we can get some actual socialism in this world.

I don’t think we should be emulating Lenin or the USSR. I think that’s what is backfiring.

“Read theory” is how they trick us, forcing us into dogmatic religious-like application of historical texts.

Why don’t we write theory? Marx and Lenin weren’t gods. They got things wrong.

Lisa’s only mistake was saying yes.

Just do every single thing in socialism, but change every single word. Call it Americanism.

Proletariat? No, just “worker”.

Bourgeoisie? No, just “elites”.

Capital? “Stuff”. Like how in baseball they say a pitcher’s got good “stuff”. Use your human stuff.

Class Consciousness - “common sense”.

Dialectical Materialism - Idk I’m still trying to figure out wtf that one means.

Stop using polysyallabic words like “proletariat” when trying to appeal to the American working class who read at a 5th grade level.

Seriously. Like the guy in Severance said. Apologize for the word. It’s too long.

Which is surprising because up here in Canada, the socialism started with the farmers. And it’s still going on with coop feed and grain silos and harvester sharing. Farmers don’t let other farmers starve, in Canada.

Oh yeah, this one time, I did heroin. Then I checked out some memes. Then I looked at a naked lady on the internet. All the same thing really.

Wow there are way fewer “so what it’s the same as your smartphone” and “everyone does it, google, apple, it’s no big deal” comments on Lemmy.