also its nice to see MLs/maoists taking "decolonization" rhetoric and using it to support their big daddy empires' ideologies of well-documented imperialism (that you don't need wikipedia to find) :)

ayo can i politely ask u what the f*** is this

homeboy using wojak memes to try and make a point

The US knows the difference between loans and grants but continues to give loans.... allegedly to finance the Third World’s development.
Such refusal shows that creditors do not really want these countries to develop and be rid of their debts but rather to extract $ and implement favorable reforms

this is the discouraging truth lol

can u elaborate who’s supporting imperialism specifically

edit: u talking about that stalin video posted?

i’ll have to watch it to get an opinion on what the video was saying

that being said discussion of stalin is inseparable and relevant to socialist history regardless,

i will say there is a bit of vibes when stalin gets posted and thus almost requires a disclaimer to why he was posted to non socialists (and those not fully educated to the scope of his legacy and both his accomplishments and the negatives)

i essentially have been reserving judgment on the most all socialist world leaders because i now put them on the same level as other world leaders, in terms of every world leader will seem to want more power for their nation and also be demonized by the opposing ideologies or economic systems or what have you.

And yet the gulags at their height still had less prisoners per capita than the USA does right now

Motherfucka Maoists don’t even have a country we support, we just got dudes in the jungle with ak47s

Once again asking all non socialists to stop posting itt

so did the capitalist stop posting here and now we gotta battle the anarchists or Left Communists? now ?

Well sniper is a libertarian socialist apparently. But no idea why so many ppl love coming in here to b**** and moan about "authoritarianism"

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he is a nazi and he has made 1/3 of Wikipedia's articles

how is me posting this even close to me being anti-Semitic

facts

lol

expansionism also doesn't equal imperialism

two completely different things

comparing their expansionism to something like the U.S is flawed because the U.S hated their minorities, and stripped them of their rights, and that didn't happen in the USSR

just in once example, the USSR minorities were legally required to be taught in their native tongue

like what point is there in critiquing socialist leaders or nations like this?

they have done more in the past 100+ years than any other anarchist project/socdem for the globally oppressed.

i just don't understand why someone can't critically support them despite their f***ups. if you call yourself a marxist, realize you're not using a material lens at this point, and your thoughts are very idealist, because "if they don't fit into my (western conceptions) then they are bad and authoritarian!) ... which will never happen

Exactly. Spot on.

Out of my own curiosity.. what do you guys think was socialist about the USSR?

Everything

Stop posting in here

Like what

See line 2

This isnt debate club and some posters need to learn that