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@mganj79 some interesting wild guesses on your part don't compensate the anti-soviet conformism you promote at this point when in fact the soviet union was the most serious attempt at your holy "abolition of the value-form" in all the darn 20th century 😅

@sovietstern To the point: people like you have the mindset they do since theyre middle-class people in developed countries like the U.S. and simply want to maintain capitalism But of course it's not enough to be a regular Leftist social-democrat, hence all the "Communist"/"Marxist" pretense

Communists taught about the *intensification* of inter-imperialist contradictions long before they became all too apparent again recently. And of course we *still* suggest to smash imperialism and capitalism entirely in order to overcome this whole deadly scourge.

@mganj79 But in the USSR, commodity production was not even generalized at all - which makes me wonder whether you actually understood the specifics of Marx's critique.

@sovietstern This is completely wrong. The USSR did not abolish capitalism. You don't understand what capitalism is, your entire position is antithetical to that of Marx's. Capitalism is anywhere generalized commodity production for exchange predominates. The USSR was absolutely capitalist.

@mganj79 As Marx might have taught you, the value-form ain't the capitalism, and abolishing the latter leads to making the former superfluous, as you can study well already in all the soviet-adjacent societies.

Communism is a quite difficult challenge while capitalism is way too easy and lazy - and costly of course.

One interesting thing about communism is that it expropriates all the means to oppose it from any rich positions of private property and "genius" (exploitative) entrepreneurship, thus saving a lot of tedious superfluous discussions about how to fare with all the social wealth.

@ThatTFgal84 fair enough, and always a lot of revolutionary theory to explore out there 😊

@sovietstern Already read.

Anarchist oomfs, what's some theory I should be reading??

@BolshevikBeyond 😊 x.com/sovietstern/st…

People see the fragmentation we face today, and then they see Lenin talking about the fragmentation of the movement in early 1900s Russia, and think to themselves “there are no strategic or tactical generalizations to be made here”

For every person who tells you to read What Is To Be Done, it feels as though nine out of every ten of them basically hold the same stances as Nadezhdin on the issues discussed in it.

@HengeDraws @AprilsBooks sounds like you had too many apocalyptic bible quotes - which may offend the soft souls of all the christian imperialist warmongers on here 😅

@AprilsBooks Had my account locked for a day for this tweet This site is so dumb omg, I hope your account is unlocked soon x.com/HengeDraws/sta…

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If the Soviets under Joseph Stalin hadn’t developed their own nuclear bomb in 1949, it would have been annihilated during Stalin’s time. During Stalin’s period, between 1945 and 1949, Western planners developed multiple war plans against the Soviet Union, including scenarios involving nuclear strikes. Operation Dropshot proposed using hundreds of atomic bombs on major Soviet cities. Plans like Bushwhacker, Broiler, Sizzle, Shakedown, Offtackle, Trojan, Pincher, and Frolic reflected similar thinking. Even Operation Unthinkable, proposed by Winston Churchill in 1945, explored war with the USSR, including the idea of reusing defeated Nazi German forces. This fear shaped Soviet policy: the iron grip on Eastern Europe wasn’t about conquest, but about building a buffer zone. Stalin didn’t want new colonies; he wanted a shield. Every previous invasion had come from the West (Napoleon Bonaparte, Wilhelm II, Adolf Hitler). After losing tens of millions during World War II, Stalin vowed never again. If the West wouldn’t respect Soviet security, the USSR would impose it.

I don’t want to live in a society where every facet of life is monetized and reduced to a commodity. Do you?

much appreciated - and yet still underrated, especially by all sorts of open and veiled neo-duehringites these days --- comrade Engels *trashed* all the third and fourth anti-proletarian ways to socialism quite extensively and patiently some 150 years ago already 🤩😋☺️

In "Anti-Dühring" Engels tears apart Dühring's entire philosophy while establishing the dialectical materialist position on these topics in 527 pages.

Amilcar Cabral on Palestine: “We are with the refugees, the martyred refugees from Palestine, who have been reviled, expelled from their homeland by the maneuvers of imperialism. We stand with the refugees of Palestine and we support with all the strength of our hearts everything that the children of Palestine are doing to liberate their country, and we support with all our strength the Arab countries and African countries in general to help the Palestinian people regain their dignity, their independence and their right to life.”

@BolshevikBeyond »The category of totality begins to have an effect long before the whole multiplicity of objects can be illuminated by it.« Georg Lukács, 1923 (struggling with a somewhat similar point to yours)

I’m very serious when I say any Marxism 101 which doesn’t define “concrete universality” is fundamentally a failure. Concrete universality, ie the relation between the abstract whole and the concrete particular, is one of the most important aspects of our philosophical heritage.

“There is a legend, in our country as well as in China, on the miraculous “Book of the Wise”. When facing great difficulties, one opens it and finds a way out. Leninism is not only a miraculous “book of the wise”, a compass for us Vietnamese revolutionaries and people: it is also the radiant sun illuminating our path to final victory, to socialism and communism.” -Ho Chi Minh

[PDF] A Libertação da Mulher Samora Machel Paul Lafargue Alexandra Kollontai Vito Kapo Soong Ching-Ling [Song Qinling] Mai Thi Tu J. Posadas Global Editora, São Paulo, 1979 142. link ⬇️

@redbooks1966 @IskoLat 👀😍

Demonstrations in Latvia demanding it's entry to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, 1940. The last image show the Communist Party members imprisoned by the old Latvian government being freed as the country joined the USSR.