Smif_N_Lenin

Can I get a royal with cheese?

CoMaps now has reviews!? Hell yeah, that was the main reason preventing me from switching over from gmaps

MUCH better

go off, queen

Of course you’re too high on smugness to bother getting the connection. My point hasn’t changed since the first comment I made on this thread, you’re just too much of a debate pervert to understand that

You clearly don’t even understand my point, because you’re not bothering to learn anything. You can’t even grasp the differences in economies, let alone the differences in how one is operated from a liberal party compared to a workers party.

Do you even know the main difference between the Chinese economy and the US economy? Both are mixed, as in they both have elements of socialist and capitalist organization, yet are organized and controlled in vastly different ways. The US, and other western economies, are beholden to Capital interests, because the liberal parties subservient to Capital. The socialist aspect has been withered away since the gains of socialist forces for decades, because workers have no power. The Chinese economy is under the control of the CCP, a workers party. While the party itself is organized as a Democratic Republic, the State is under the dictatorship of that workers party, meaning that Capitalist forces are subservient to the state. And that’s before the discussion of how a party can be communist, yet be able to wield the forces of capitalism within a controlled scope to rapidly industrialize key industries before taking state control to socialize those industries in the form of state capitalism. Let alone how worker cooperatives, where there is an actual socialist means of production, fit into the picture.

No investigation, no right to speak

You’re just proving my point here

Thanks for sharing what you know, it’s a refreshing perspective to learn from

Do you know of any historians on the revolution to modern-day china that you’d recommend?

authoritarian and democracy are not mutually exclusive concepts. I think ignoring the details of both aspects in favor of thought terminating clichés is counterproductive, assuming the goal is to actually understand the intricacies of these societies instead of a black and white understanding.

You can either investigate yourself or lean into your preconceived biases, if you’re choosing the latter that’s your choice.

You clearly don’t want to have an actual discussion that includes those nuances that take into account the geopolitics of global capitalism and material conditions, so let’s just agree to disagree or something

It’s a massive simplification that removes all context of each of those countries anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist histories, all of which is incredibly important to understanding their current political organization and the scope that democracy holds in each.

You’re missing the point…

That’s their version of Democratic Republic represention within the party, shaped by the material conditions of both the before-mentioned genocidal bombing campaign and the continued attempts of outside forces to collapse the state via CIA Activities and Sanctions designed to starve and isolate the entire country.

You should check out the Blowback podcast if you’re interested in The Korea War and how those events shaped Present-day North and South Korea

Voting is incredibly minimal at best but has marginally expanded since 2023 with some primaries.

North Korea is basically if a trauma victim was a country, shellshocked after a genocidal bombing campaign. Blowback Season 4 goes into crazy detail about the war. That’s what caused them to pioneer the tunnel technology we saw in Vietnam and also Gaza today.

Unfortunately nuance has no place here, nor does the anti-colonialist context or distinction between party and governance.

Not to mention the oil CEOs are directly responsible for delaying and inhibiting the transition to green energy

no, have you??

no he didn’t

As the historian Ronald Aronson pointed out, even if Margolin did not cite the figure of one million victims of Vietnamese Communism invented by Courtois in the introduction, at no point in his chapter on Communism in Asia did he mention that the US intervention in Vietnam had cost, according to some estimates, up to three million lives.

But have you considered scary black book of communism?

yeah no, that’s a bunch of Zionist bullshit

the IRGC and Hezbollah are not the ones committing genocide, nor are they the ones assisting Israel in any way, just the opposite. Shifting the blame to them is false and only serves Israeli hasbara.

In Israel’s own words, both the Gaza offensive and Lebanon offensive are both genocidal