Rome lasted between 400 and 1500

I don’t think the timeframe is any good at identifying the failure. I’m not sure that Rome has seen as many historical events as the USSR: two world wars, television, nukes, space, computers to name a few. The correct answer here is that we can learn from experiments such as Rome, Paris Commune, and the USSR. We can’t learn from Putin though, assuming we both don’t want to build a relatively stable authoritarian proto fascist regime.

Stalin never stood in a bread line

Realistically, how do you imagine that? Because I can’t: you’ve built an authoritarian state with one party on the top, the country is not in the best condition. right now. There is no place for martyrdom here, you are obliged to rule the state while the things are as they are. I do not agree to shit on Stalin/Castro/Mao for exercising more lavish lifestyle than the common people. I can agree to shit on them for creating the system where they are the center of the country though.

On a side note, do you know the story of Vasily Stalin? He was Stalin’s son and he did not have such privileges.

There seems to be an inherent vulnerability to revolutionary political actions to co-option by charismatic strongmen.

Historical irony here is that Lenin himself discusses this in “What is to be done?”, giving the example of Napoleon if I’m not mistaken. He’s all for democracy though.

staying out of everyone’s personal life

The first thing Bolsheviks did, was cancelling the persecution by political reasons (being gay included) and legitimizing abortions.

Overall I see that although you identify as a right winger, we don’t have that different world view and how the world should be. I very much appreciate you being honest. Such threads make me love humanity more

I do, actually. I was laying in bed for an hour with my phone and grabbed this fucking coffee 💪

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Yes. Politics of utter violence is still politics

I guess the imbalance between out- and in-flow would be the largest challenge Putiln will face after the end of war and soft-lift of sanctions. Not the people going to the streets how the western propaganda likes to imagine it. Will he solve it? IDK, really. Either way, it would be a disaster.

The book I read asks to find something worth waking up early. I thought I would go grab a coffee in the coffee shop but in reality I want to sleep more and I’m extremely nauseous rn

Idk how much they pay. The price is significantly lower than the price of the car by 2 orders of magnitude

Steel is extremely cheap compared to the car.

A metric ton of hrc steel costs like $800 - that’s $400 added value to the end product.

A car costs like $30k. 15% is like $4.5k of the added value. The argument doesn’t stand

What’s really the problem is that the supply chain might cross the border a few times. That’s what was the intent for the tarifs.

Stop thinking about the orange clown’s government as the dumb villains from done kind of comedy. They are our political opponents

Reminds of the time I accidentally cat

Soon the era of hosting own VPN and tricking AI will start

Shut up! Nobody is stealing from you

If you are really asking me, then the answe is simple: to exercise more control over capital inside Russia. The war in Ukraine will end sooner or later, the sanctions will be lifted and the capital will flow in and out, effectively destroying the authoritarian regime he built.

But again, my opinion here is marginal and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Edit: in-flow would be significantly lower than the out-flow as we saw how foreign capital was seized. Unless there will be significant gain opportunities like in the 90s.

So if they nuke Gaza in August…

Get that AIDS

There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism

No, I’m not joking. I even used the numbing cream to avoid the pain. Tried three or four different saddles - all were bad. Now I’m a proud motorcyclist.

IDK why are you being downvoted here. Here’s not a tankie perspective.

USSR was a historical failure

Was Rome a historical failure? The USSR was a controversial state. Stalin did seize the power, but probably not for his own benefit. I wonder how tankies can defend him as he killed almost as many communists as Suhatro. What I find the main reason for being a communist after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is that they built a state where the main goal in life wasn’t the pursuit of wealth. People felt much more secure than in the modern states, though without the latest advancements in technologies.

China isn’t actually Communist but Capitalist

Well, politically they are in the middle: they do exercise something that is similar to New Economic Policy - a short-term return to capitalism. For USSR it was for 7 years, for China it’s over 50 years.

I know that a lot of tankies will defend China, but I’m not among them as I’ve been there recently. People literally sleep at their work desks as the commute is 50km, you can’t put your child in a kindergarten without a bribe and the famous help from the government is 100kg of watermelons per family in Inner Mongolia. It’s not a shit hole either though: if I had to choose between South Korea and China to live, I’d choose China.

was never actually implemented

Marxism is vaguely defined to be claimed as if it was or was not implemented. I prefer to think about Marxism as a lens I see the world through.

What happened with the EU? They were banning Varufakis like an antisemite almost yesterday

They just burn the added rate, please stop asking questions

No. Epstein’s better in utilitarian terms