What ad hominem? What are you talking about? I haven’t attacked you whatsoever. I’m just explaining the core contradiction of capitalism. Elsewhere in this thread you can see me Stalin should have been shot, and that the USSR under him was a revisionist disaster. And nowhere here have I advocated for anything remotely resembling Stalin’s policies. So I’m just confused why you’re calling me a tankie. And why you thimk I’m attacking you.