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They are laughing at Trump, August 2015, saying he will hurt the GOP brand...

Theres a mail where Hunter says F*** Her about Hillary CLinton

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What was the prior measure used instead of profitability?
FYI I'm not asking these as gotcha questions genuinely interested

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It was mostly bssed on gross output, so production without profitability taken into account. One thing to remember is that profitability of individual forms doesn't necessarily lead to more growth overall.

semester finally over.... can't wait to read some of the books I bought

Nobody wins when the family feuds

Im reading the Joe Biden mails right now (he used a burner account)

Joe really loves/loved his kids. Also he doesn't know how to use modern technology and complains about file attachments and not being able to open videos and whatnot.

Excited to announce that I've personally been accepted as the 31st member of NATO.

Was gross preferred because the state supplied a virtually infinite amount of materials, so the efficiency didn't matter so much compared to the total output?

Or were the firms producing goods that were of a different category than what goes into them, like for example wood used to make furniture, profitability wouldn't matter because russia has infinite wood

Aight serious question: Is it possible to be socialist or even communist without condoning some of the s*** done by socialist nations in the past

Like ion really f*** with Stalin nem and while the Tsar Nicholas was a terrible leader i dont fw how the Bolsheviks murked his entire family

The thing is that western propaganda equates these things as to the doing of socialism itself which i dont agree

Which is why ppl say "Communism killed x million" cause Western propagates historical events as to the doing of the ideaology itself

No it's not a religion lol there's a lot of variety of thought. The three big categories when it comes to socialists are Communists, Anarchists, and Social Democrats (who I wouldn't even consider socialists but I'm trynna stay unbiased here) and they disagree on basically everything. And even within these groups, especially the Communists,, there's subgroups who disagree on everything.

Imo don't try to find which of them is "correct", just do some reading and see what political positions you end up with it'll probably be a mix from many schools of thought.

Lenin: Marxism cannot be reconciled with nationalism

Patriotic Socialists: "Marxism... can... be... nationalism"

I mean it wasn't preferred by everybody otherwise the reforms wouldn't have taken place ofc, it's mostly ideological opposition to those reforms bc of communists critique of profit

There were still problems with the old production quotas (it didn't account for quality), but the introduction of the importance of individual profitability didn't resolve those problems, it actually led to less growth on the long term

Of course, there's much to be criticized in all socialist countries and it's important to do so to avoid those mistakes in the future.

Fidel said this about Stalin for example:

Q: Fidel, for most Latin American revolutionary leaders, the current crisis of socialism has a mastermind: Josef Stalin.
A: I believe Stalin made big mistakes but also showed great wisdom.
In my opinion, blaming Stalin for everything that occurred in the Soviet Union would be historical simplism, because no man by himself could have created certain conditions. It would be the same as giving Stalin all the credit for what the USSR once was. That is impossible! I believe that the efforts of millions and millions of heroic people contributed to the USSR's development and to its relevant role in the world in favor of hundreds of millions of people.
I have criticized Stalin for a lot of things. First of all, I criticized his violation of the legal framework.
I believe Stalin committed an enormous abuse of power. That is another conviction I have always had.
I feel that Stalin's agricultural policy did not develop a progressive process to socialize land. In my opinion, the land socialization process should have begun earlier and should have been gradually implemented. Because of its violent implementation, it had a very high economic and human cost in a very brief period of history.
I also feel that Stalin's policy prior to the war was totally erroneous. No one can deny that western powers promoted Hitler until he became a monster, a real threat. The terrible weakness shown by western powers before Hitler cannot be denied. This at encouraged Hitler's expansionism and Stalin's fear, which led Stalin to do something I will criticize all my life, because I believe that it was a flagrant violation of principles: seek peace with Hitler at any cost, stalling for time.
During our revolutionary life, during the relatively long history of the Cuban Revolution, we have never negotiated a single principle to gain time, or to obtain any practical advantage. Stalin fell for the famous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact at a time when Germans were already demanding the delivery of the Danzig Corridor.
I feel that, far from gaining time, the nonaggression pact reduced time, because the war broke out anyway. Then, in my opinion, he made another big mistake, because when Poland was being attacked, he sent troops to occupy that territory, which was disputed because it had a Ukrainian or Russian population, I am not sure.
I also believe that the little war against Finland was another terrible mistake, from the standpoint of principles and international law.
Stalin made a series of mistakes that were criticized by a large part of the world, and which placed Communists - who were great friends of the USSR - in a very difficult position by having to support each one of those episodes.
Since we are discussing this topic, I must tell you that I have never discussed it with any journalist (or on any other occasion, he added).
The things I mentioned are against principles and doctrine; they are even contrary to political wisdom. Although it is true that there was a period of one year and nine months from September 1939 to June 1941 during which the USSR could have rearmed itself, Hitler was the one who got stronger.
If Hitler had declared war on the USSR in 1939, the destruction would have been less than the destruction caused in 1941, and he would have suffered the same fate as Napoleon Bonaparte. With the people's participation in an irregular war, the USSR would have defeated Hitler.
Finally, Stalin's character, his terrible distrust of everything, made him commit several other mistakes: one of them was falling in the trap of German intrigue and conducting a terrible, bloody purge of the armed forces and practically beheading the Soviet Army on the eve of war.
Q: What do you believe were Stalin's merits?
A: He established unity in the Soviet Union. He consolidated what Lenin had begun: party unity. He gave the international revolutionary movement a new impetus. The USSR's industrialization was one of Stalin's wisest actions, and I believe it was a determining factor in the USSR's capacity to resist.
One of Stalin's - and the team that supported him - greatest merits was the plan to transfer the war industry and main strategic industries to Siberia and deep into Soviet territory.
I believe Stalin led the USSR well during the war. According to many generals, Zhukov and the most brilliant Soviet generals, Stalin played an important role in defending the USSR and in the war against Nazism. They all recognized it.
I think there should be an impartial a***ysis of Stalin. Blaming him for everything that happened would be historical simplism.

Marxism is based on material a***ysis to look for and solve contradiction. This means that socialist projects must be a***yzed, critiqued, and adjusted continually.

If your socialist state looks the exact same as another one you’re doing it wrong. There are things that work universally, and there are things that must change for your material conditions

What’s the difference between Lenin’s term of national unity and actual nationalism?

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