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Yes, but what is conservatism? I want to understand how you're defining the term. The political expression of self-identified conservative interests in a society and nothing more. What is the "narrowly historical-political sense" of the word, and what are the sociological and economic def...

Again, the T-800, Kyle Reese, the T-1000 and Uncle Bob were all sent back from different points in time, in that order. This necessarily means that there exist timelines in which the T-800 and the T-1000 arrive in 1984 and 1995, respectively, without Kyle Reese or Uncle Bob in pursuit. And Sarah and...

The dialectical unraveling of the contradictions in the Trump movement continue apace. I am far less interested in the personalities and particularities of what's happening here than what this represents in the abstract. Trump Jr booed off stage by supporters of his father amid apparent split in US ...

An entire class of millions cannot directly control or oversee every minute decision. Nobody has ever posited that "an entire class of millions" should control or oversee every decision. There will ALWAYS be a small class of leaders and they’ll always be open to influence. Informal leader...

I have nothing against co-operatives as such, though even a society in which the vast majority of production was arranged on co-operative lines could not be said to be not capitalist in any meaningful sense. But they aren't non-capitalist institutions in themselves. This is why e.g. Ronald Reagan co...

I may as well do nothing but throw block quotes at you in the hopes you will read them. . A simple look at history will show that EVERY attempt at putting communism in place on a wide scale has always ended in bloodshed. (Of course, I do not oppose bloodshed in revolution. Neither does any American ...

On the subject of the topic, I'd like to address something concerning Richard Wolff, who postures as the public face of the 'Marxist' "workplace democracy" movement. I'm only familiar with the man through his YouTube presentations and not his books, so I can only comment on those. But from...

Sounds like a load of bullshit. You dismiss social democrats as traitors because they acknowledge that not everything about capitalism is evil and that communism in it's purest form is not really that good. To a cultist like you that's unforgivable I'm not dismissing social democrats as traitors , ...

Progress, however slight, is still progress. I call this a win. Is it indeed? Yes It is my contention that social democracy and conservatism, like the State and the market, are not antagonistic forces; indeed, unlike populists who talk about "corporatism" and "crony capitalism",...

Scope out M.J. Young's timeline theory for Genisys . The whole thing is rather long, but I want to quote it at length because trying to describe it is rather difficult - it's basically constructed on the idea that every time you send two people back through time, history has to play out where only o...

it's disgustingly obvious Lenin saw communism as the end goal The point is that IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE GODDAMN END GOAL IS BECAUSE OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED BY MATERIAL CONDITIONS AND NOT GODDAMN THEORETICAL BUBBLE-BLOWING. the ideals of the revolution in the soviet union WERE based on communism ...

I'm not playing your game. You don't want good debate

Hey, Yun.

Have you ever read Marx?

Although your cultish devotion to communism is rather sad The fact that the lines between liberal ideologies are capable of being blurred to such a degree are in fact proof of the materialist thesis. Ideologies are abstractions from reality. Their content does not reference the world as it exists, ...

really, a nice communist boy like you linking to such an obviously capitalist company? I also have a subscription to The Economist . It always helps to know what the enemy is thinking. It's also going to be hard as fuck to go from "more coal!" and "roll back environmental controls!&q...

From a reactionary tabloid, to be sure, but the blurring of cleavages between the official ideologies is always more interesting than reiterations of the old lines between them. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/trump-campaign-considers-shift-on-climate-change-to-win-reelection Presid...

Let me make a side note that Bolshevism also represented an significant break from existing Marxist theorizing about the nature of socialist revolution. Lenin himself said (early in the post-October Revolution period) that the victory of the Bolsheviks was fundamentally inexplicable. The fact is th...

And how much of that (if any) was part of a formal course of study? To be absolutely fair, this is all material I've learned on my own, through a deep reading of the Marxist Internet Archives and time spent on Marxist (non-tankie - e.g. r/marxism_101 or r_shitleftistssay ) boards. I've never had th...

He wanted to adopt it for a time due to the circumstances; in all likelihood he would have abandoned state capitalism. Individual rulers are not gods , Mr. Yun. This is part and parcel of the materialist method of analysis. Lenin could no more have wilfully "abandoned" State capitalism th...

Yes, Lenin saw himself as a socialist. He also, crucially, did not see the Soviet Union as a socialist society - Nor, I think, has any Communist denied that the term Socialist Soviet Republic implies the determination of Soviet power to achieve the transition to socialism, and not that the new econo...

So now we're back to you shotgunning buzzword arguments that you don't understand and engaging in deliberate and thoughtful misrepresentation of authors. Neat. Nope. Not at all. You can't just write off every regime as "not true communists"; When they explicitly acknowledge that they are ...

Nope. Communist THEORY has good ideas but in practice people are selfish and will always find a way to pervert things. Yes, we know. Original Sin and all that. (T)he communists do not oppose egoism to selflessness or selflessness to egoism, nor do they express this contradiction theoretically eithe...

Are there and/or have there been any countries that have successfully implemented Marxist Communism on a large scale? If not, why not? Because Communism presupposes a worldwide "implementation" (and, indeed, this is the wrong terminology to use; strict-constructionist Marxists do not beli...

Hardly. Look at every nation proclaiming them to be communist. Once again: No one, I think, in studying the question of the economic system of Russia, had denied its transitional character. Nor, I think, has any Communist denied that the term Socialist Soviet Republic implies the determination of S...

Explain the "dictatorship of the proletariat" Marx kept bringing up. Explain how that won't end in tears. You don't know what the term 'dictatorship' means as used by Marx. Per Hal Draper : By the nineteenth century political language had long included references to the “dictatorship” of ...

So if none of those countries were Communist, it means that Communism is a failure because it couldn't even take root in governments purporting to actually work towards it. QED. :razz: Or, rather more accurately, that Communism cannot be realized in the political sense, as it is not simply a mirror...