Socialism_Everyday
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- Comment on wisdom 22 hours ago:
That’s your definition. To me, it means essentially “Marxist-Leninist who supports actually existing socialist projects”. I still fail to see what my views on some countries have to do with adventurism.
- Comment on wisdom 22 hours ago:
They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to
No. We just believe that adventurism isn’t a good tactic in bourgeois dictatorship, and we distinguish it from repression of capitalists by the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e. by the state democratically representing the workers in power.
- Comment on wisdom 1 day ago:
What do Russia, China or the DPRK have to do with stochastic acts of violence against capitalists?
- Comment on wisdom 1 day ago:
Tankie here. Marxists-Leninist don’t condone stochastic violent acts during capitalism against Capitalists, the word we use to refer to such tactics is “adventurism”, and it’s criticized heavily.
- Comment on handling strays 2 days ago:
Oops, can’t spell it seems
- Comment on handling strays 2 days ago:
Turns out I can’t spell lmao
- Comment on handling strays 2 days ago:
Just a thought-terminating cliche, very popular. It’s one of the words used to shutdown brain function when you read something that shakes cognitive dissonance.
- Comment on handling strays 2 days ago:
Hmmm, wonder why you’re getting defensive around general accusations of misogyny not particularly directed towards you
- Comment on handling strays 2 days ago:
First result on “wojak” image search
- Comment on handling strays 2 days ago:
The meme format of “Wokaj vs. Chad” implicitly puts the Chad over the Wojak
- Comment on handling strays 2 days ago:
Lemmy: your daily dose of misogyny
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 days ago:
To be fair, the fact that you haven’t heard of any Aussie credit is because companies keep it private to themselves. They definitely have financial information on you and utilize it to decide the interest rate on your loans.
Much less horrible than the US dystopia for sure tho
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 weeks ago:
When you can get a fucking delicious and nutritious bowl of noodles and vegetables for 5 yuan or a metro/bus ride for 3 yuan in the USA let me know.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 weeks ago:
This post is misinformation.
[Statistical Communiqué for 2024 on national economics by the National Bureau of Statistics of China] (www.stats.gov.cn/…/t20250228_1958822.html):
“In 2024, the per capita disposable income nationwide was 41,314 yuan, an increase of 5.3 percent over that of the previous year or a real increase of 5.1 percent after deducting price factors”
Tell me how growing your disposable income by 5% a year is “not being able to afford anything”
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
This aint the US where you don’t pay for the social safety net
Fuck that. In my European country, 25% of young people endure unemployment and nobody can fucking afford housing, where are our safety nets in Spain? Our purchase power is worse than it was 25 years ago, and keeps worsening. Wages in Spain are extremely affordable, we get paid like utter shit, minimum wage is 1300€ a month.
Go and spend 170€ in a bag 150€ of which go to the capitalist owner of the company.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Two things can be true at the same time.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Give me numerical data for that. I can buy fucking 10 cent microcontrollers and program them at home because 200 years of industrial development have made it that there’s so little labor involved in their production, it’s a matter of economy of scale. Manufacture loads of cheap, resistant fabrics such as viscosa, manufacture loads of cheap, long-lasting messenger bags. But no, it has to be 100 different small-production models because we need 100 different varieties of messenger bags instead of reliable, affordable, mass-produced Eco-friendly options
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
No, no and no. Artificial tough fabrics and sewing methods are extremely affordable industrially in 2025. I will not pay 170€ for something that should cost, extremely generously, 50€.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Care to explain? I don’t understand your comment, sorry
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
What we have is exactly capitalism. A “winner-takes-it-all” system breeds oligopoly, and oligopoly breeds corruption.
the big players pocket the regulators
That’s the entire point of capitalism, it’s how it’s always been, and it’s how it will always be. It’s class analysis: the capital owners have the media, the political power, and the repressive force of the state apparatus behind them.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Consumer action is a lie that doesn’t work. Worker action through unions is the way
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Shop AliExpress if you can, avoid dropshippers and petit bourgeois
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
without literal exploitation of everything?
Huh? Do you think workers are not exploited at physical stores? Do you think most of the stuff isn’t made identically and then rebranded differently for Amazon or for other stores?
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Lmfao 170€ for a bag. Are you people rich?
- Comment on Poland Weighs Donating MiG-29 Jets to Ukraine in Exchange for Drone, Missile Tech 3 weeks ago:
Donating […] in exchange for
Uh…
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 5 weeks ago:
You Americans are experts at outsourcing any homegrown problem, aren’t you? Drug problems? Venezuela. Radical right wing in the core of the imperial west winning the elections? Russia’s fault.
Mother of God, your international propaganda apparatus is so pervasive that I needed to exchange euros to dollars the other day and I could recognize the faces of your fucking 200 year old founding fathers on the bills by name and surname, and you STILL believe that propaganda problems in the USA are due to Russia?!
- Comment on Anon is 5'1" 5 weeks ago:
That is not 180cm, 180cm is about 6’ and the green text guy is 11 inches shorter than that, so probably around 155cm.
- Comment on Radon 5 weeks ago:
Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution
Couldn’t be further from reality. Capitalist firms actively hire the least amount of people possible, because if they can get away with equal production and lower number of employees, that means higher profit.
Capitalism is actually the only system in human history with unemployment: it wasn’t a thing in hunter-gatherer society, it wasn’t a thing in early agricultural societies, it wasn’t a thing during the times of slavery, it wasn’t a thing during feudalism, and it hasn’t been a thing in any communist nation such as Cuba or the USSR (both guaranteeing jobs to every citizen as a right, and the latter having 10% of all positions vacant from 1970 onward).
Capitalism maintains an unemployed sector of the population because:
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Employing more workers costs more money to firms
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Having high unemployment decreases wages, improving profits of firms
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Having a pool of unemployed people allows firms to spawn, grow and mutate without difficulty of finding workers to do so.
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- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
And what did Hungary do to the USSR? Hungary was a fascist Axis state that contributed to Holocaust and to the invasion of the USSR.
Regarding the rapes, it’s unfortunate, but an army of starved and mostly uneducated peasants who suffered millions of deaths for the prior two years is bound to commit excesses.
600 thousand people were also kidnapped (from a country of less than 10 million) and forced into labour camps
Yes. Hungary was a Nazi nation. Sending the people responsible to prison is a good thing. Not technically labor camps, the GULAG system is just prison, and reeducating the people out of Nazism was a good thing. The USSR literally rid Hungary of Nazism.
There were also examples of brutal torture, keeping people in cells small enough they couldn’t even sit down, and so on
Sure, excesses in repression during a struggle against Nazism happened. I wonder why youre you’re more concerned with that than thankful that Hungary stopped being Nazi and such tortures and means ended forever after the 50s.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
My claim isn’t that the word Holodomor was coined to make it sound scary, it’s that the word becoming the one to refer to the event in the western world is no coincidence. The etymological origin can be whichever it is.
Now, why oh why does the Skull Famine not have relevancy on the political climate? That’s exactly my point. Other famines are depoliticized (the article on Wikipedia for example chalks most of it down to climate) but “Holodomor” is made out to be by western anticommunist propaganda an attempt of genocide against Ukrainians. The motivations, followup or precedents are left to guess, though, but that’s fine, nobody will question it because first, questioning genocide is a risky thing to do, and secondly, it’s le evil Russian commies doing it, so ofc we will all believe it in the west.
Just a small remark: the two search results I referred to after searching “skull famine” came from not just searching those words on lemmy.world, but also from doing a Ctrl+F search for the words to be together. After ignoring our conversation, only two results meet that condition.
Rosefielde’s (great name) paper is excellent, and breaks down his calculations in an extremely easily digested manner.
Ok. Funny to me that you hadn’t seen any of this before. Given the proximity to our modern times of this excess mortality numbering the millions in Russia alone, it should be a political hotbed shouldn’t it? Especially now that sensibilities with Ukraine are high, I wonder, why is it that similar studies but regarding the impact of capitalism in Ukraine aren’t constantly discussed? Be honest, were you aware of the scale of death and suffering caused by capitalist restoration in the eastern block? Given your original dismiss when I talked of drug abuse, organized crime, suicide rates, malnutrition and preventable disease, I doubt it. You seem to know so much about Holodomor though, so ask yourself: why is that? Why do you only seem to know about the millions of Ukrainians who died under socialism 90 years ago but you didn’t quite know what happened in the region in terms of life metrics for the past 35?
However: Both of those papers show examples of addressing death rates, and make no attempt at the problem of calculating lives saved
Cool, but I addressed that already. I already gave you the Brazil example. Tell me any other underdeveloped country that, between 1930 and 1960, had a doubling of life expectancy from 28 to 60. Comparative economics is a valid method, and there is no country that had this growth at the time, which is even more relevant in the case of the USSR because for equally developed countries, socialist ones consistently give better life metrics. You don’t believe in comparative economics, or in the idea that economic development correlates (especially in socialist societies) with increased life expectancy and reduced mortality?
