Even state department mouthpieces have to grudgingly admit that even the thing you could wilfully misconstrue as some kind of cultural suppression has already ended

The CIA tried to fund a breakaway sect of violent Islamic extremists, whose main target was other Uyghurs, and China conducted the most thorough and successful deradicalization campaign of all time

And you deserve to know that because…?

I hope this lack of a response means you took my advice and went to bed

But seriously what’s your deal

So it’s something secret?

Then what are you trying to do?

It took hundreds of years for the whole of Europe to transition through the stages of feudalism, leading up to its political overthrow and replacement with bourgeoise democracies, whether true republics or consitutional monarchies. The first European republic, France, was even defeated by a coalition of monarchies and had its royalty restored! But that didn’t change the gradual transition of economic forces that lead inescapably to the political dominance of the capitalist class. The monarchies of Europe didn’t lose their power all at once, but as the capitalist class gained power they flipped one by one, or else had the actual political power of their aristocracy quietly stripped away. Thus it is with capitalist republics across the world today. Over perhaps hundreds of years, capitalist republics will become socialist, some socialist projects will be overthrown by coalitions of capitalists the way France was (e.g. the Paris Commune, the USSR, Yugoslavia) but as the capitalist economy was superior to the feudal economy in terms of industrial output - even in countries that still had a monarchy, like the German or British Empires - so the socialist centrally-planned economy is superior to the capitalist one, even when there are still markets present, which will eventually lead to global political domination by the working class. After the last capitalist republic has been overthrown, and the working class has fully eliminated capitalist ownership, hence the capitalist class, hence competing class interests entirely, then the structures and organizations required for that task can be decomissioned, some kind of borderless world government can be instituted, all economic activity can be directed for the fulfillment of needs, etc. And probably, in regions far from the front lines and risks of capitalist sabotage, such conditions would probably already be well-established in practice. But it could take another one or two hundred years to reach that point.

I’m gone for one day and come back to this

You’ve been posting every couple of hours for almost an entire day, when did you even sleep?? You replied 17 times in this comment chain without even trying to substantially respond to a single point I made. In every thread I’ve ever seen you participate in, you exclusively argue without the slightest grace and in obvious bad faith. Do you think this is how you convince people of anything? Do you think an outsider reading this chain of replies will see you as anything other than vulgar and offputting? What exactly do you think you’re accomplishing here? At least you make your opponents look incredibly reasonable and well-read by comparison. Your next move is to write a one-line reply responding to a single fragment of this comment, instead you should go to bed!

The United Kingdom has a monarch, is it not capitalist?

Are political-economic systems something that switch instantly from one pure form to the next, or are they epochal changes stretching over hundreds of years?

You’ve also never seen a world without the United States, whomst spends 60% of the world’s military budget and has financed 100000000 coups

Until all capitalists are destroyed and every single human endeavor on Earth is being democratically directed by the working class, a state will have to exist to wage class war

You really cannot be taking swings at Cuba, there is simply no reasonable way to look at this tiny country under total siege by the most powerful empire of all time, see how much better their people live than any other nation at the same level of income, and declare that it’s a bad thing. Even a cursory investigation shows how much power the people have to change policy, it’s probably the most democratic country in the world, maybe ever. Here’s a short primer

I mean, just read that section on mass organizations and tell me that isn’t exactly what you profess to want. And this is from 2015, way before the 2022 Family Code referendum which made marriage equality a constitutional right (among various other highly progressive things) and was probably the most democratically-shaped document of all time, having been discussed in 133,000 public meetings across the nation, with 783,000 proposals for changes made by literally just regular people, in a process that took three and a half years and ended on the 25th revision, which was then adopted in a referendum by 87% of voters.

I know it’s difficult for you, but please try to read more than the first six words of my comment. I’ll await your better-informed response.

Are you trying to own me by bringing up even more good things the Red Army did??? Whatever, thank you for further proving my point comrade!

I was trying to make the question simple for you, but I see you can actually do basic research when you want to (even though you still haven’t answered the simple yes or no question). Do you understand that without the Red Army, none of this that could have happened? That the Nazis would have killed everyone at all of those camps, and then kept moving eastwards, killing more and more people and plundering more and more land and resources, with absolutely no one to stop them? Are you getting this?

The Red Army could only exist because of the massive industrialization program implemented by the communist party of the USSR. No communists = no factories = no tanks = no end to the Nazi slaughter. The only system that has ever built industry at that pace, is the system of five-year plans issued by a central planning body with the authority to command how resources and workers are allocated! No other system in history has even come close! And even then, working at almost the fastest pace in human history, the USSR barely had time to build an army before the capitalists opened the gates of hell on them. So isn’t it a little arrogant to just assume that you know better than they did how they should have organized themselves to be able to do that, while also somehow just never needing to apply authority in any way?

Yeah having just said that, after two days of shouting at an entire clan of brick walls I am starting to flag a little, but still, from time to time it’s good practice to sharpen your arguments against the bluntest whetstones you can find.

I YET HUNGER FOR BATTLE, FEED ME LIBERALS

I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to say in the first part

that’s a LOW bar. pre-communist times are a very low bar. nobody here argued that russian life was better before the sfsr

The literal entire argument is that Russian life didn’t improve enough under the USSR as compared to a fictional anarchist alternative, such that communists are indistinguishable from fascists. That is the entire crux of the argument in this 400+ comment section. If it’s a low bar, then how come no non-communist third world country ever had even close to that kind of explosive increase in life expectancy and quality?

when were we comparing that? when were we justifying the US?

I don’t understand what you don’t understand. You brought up Texas incarceration and death rates, and their contemporary characterization as horrific, and then compared them to USSR imprisonment rates as some kind of gotcha that the communists were unusally inhumane in their prison system even compared to the barbaric US, so I pointed out that as a beneficiary of imperialism the US doesn’t need as brutal punishment in its own territory, it can reserve its oppressive violence for all its vassal fiefdoms in South America - such as, for instance, El Salvador.

where’d your series of questions about the purging of the statisticians go?

Huh??? I asked those questions and you just didn’t respond to them or provide any evidence for your assertion, you just moved the conversation on to different points and I followed along. You and the other guy have a habit of just ignoring questions you can’t answer so I just let it slide. But again, what are you talking about purging statisticians? You know that word has a specific meaning of being expelled from the communist party, right? It’s not just a synonym for ‘being killed’, so what statisticians are you talking about that were in the communist party and got expelled for, I’m guessing, “showing statistics that Stalin didn’t like”?

Answer this true or false statement: Did the Red Army liberate Auscwitz?

It’s a simple question, just pick an answer. It’s especially easy because I’ve already shown you a photo of what happened.

THE USSR ENDED THE HOLOCAUST

TRUE OR FALSE