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FluffyPotato
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Like the closest thing to workers owning the means of production currently is coop businesses and Cuba is supporting that quite a bit but their economic model is state capitalist. Though yea, socialist orgs are definitely taking off, the local libertarian group here has never had this many members or this much success with organising.
Considering there arent any socialist countries today that would mean we are kinda boned.
Just for information the death count of gulags is largely unknown. Russia itself says its 1 million but pretty much all other sources say its too low to be even believable. There are credible sources for 1.5 to 8 million deaths (also non-credible sources that go much higher). Unfortunately unlike the nazies, soviets did not really have record keeping at all so all sources are estimates based to prisoner and guard writings. Another factor that makes estimates hard is the practice of when a prisoner was near death they would be shipped home, a lot of those never made it home but don't count as killed by a gulag.
There was also mass deportations from satellite states that weren't sent to gulags presumably but that's a different thing.
Dictatorship of the proletariat as Marx wrote has never been achieved and arguably(Depending on how naive you believe Lenin was) has never even been worked towards. MLs bastardization of that in the form of a vanguard party is just a different dictatorship of the bourgeoisie as it creates a ruling class.
Yes, the USSR annexing it's neighbours and then exporting their resources and people was very much imperialism.
The workers party we are forming will be domocratic with no strongman.
It really depends on which bourgeois democracy. I may agree if compared to the US (I'm not too educated on the US so I could be wrong) but few others.
Though I fail to understand how that has anything to do with the topic of tankie having a consistent definition.
Do you believe capitalism is good because it helped some people? The whole point of socialism is to put the means of production into the hands of the workers and not a vanguard party. Yea, the USSR did quite a lot of imperialism which it used to reduce income inequality of the Russian people but it was never socialist.
You're wrong, what Marx talked about was the whole class of workers being in power. Stalin perverted that idea to a vanguard party. Stalin's system has always resulted in a ruling class composed of a class that was no longer the proletariat (if they even were to begin with). That system is not socialist, it is in fact no better than a capitalist system, as the hierarchies at work are equally unjust.
You mean the guy in charge after the death of Lenin? Who Lenin warned against?
What? Humans don't learn to paint by looking at paintings, most people learn by just painting. Humans can also draw art without having ever seen any. AI on the other hand can only draw from other people's works, it has no creativity of its own.