ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]

Hey, if you’re not trans, please stop using us as a political cudgel. The mainline democrats hate us too.

Or the iris… wait no, or segregationists

The bourgeois elections are the least important part of politics

It isnt first past the post. It is bourgeois democracy. Things would be the same if there was one party or twenty so long as the bourgeoisie own the state.

excellent protection of indigenous culture

Lmao, this is like saying the US has excellent protection of indigenous culture.

Recognized or not, it is a independent political, economical, and cultural entity from China. Calling it part of China is just unhelpful burocracy.

Except for the part that they claim they are part of China, are strongly economically coupled with China, and are full of Chinese people, sure.

I’d argue you’re just describing vulgar idealist(as opposed to materialism, not cynicism) philosophy.

What I meant was that if we didn’t have it to start with, things would’ve likely still developed albeit much more slowly.

I dont think we will ever know, but Im not sure I agree. I dont know what the landscape would look like without relying on open source and patent theft. A lot of the stuff would probably not be financially viable.

I work in software development. Almost all modern architecture would collapse without the open source ecosystem.

:gulp:

I have no formal training in philosophy maybe I need to read less philosophy if philosophy undergrads aren’t being exposed to it

suppose you could make an argument that a non-communist dialectical materialist is also a Marxist

That’s my argument

though I’ve never seen it used that way in practice.

Sometimes capitalists spout marxist shit and it is recorded. Marxist capitalists are the worst because they have an understanding of the contradictions their counterparts dont. More commonly there are non communist Marxists in philosophy.

I agree that almost all Marxists are communists, I just felt your initial response was a simplification that lost more meaning in the simplification than it necessarily needed to.

No, marxism is a lense through which to analyze capitalism. It isnt communist by itself, although marx was a communist.

Also without open source the capitalist tech sector would collapse

Read “The economy and class structure of german fascism” to gain a cursory understanding of the subject before opining on it again.

We love tankie kira

Lol they cited articles from AP proving you wrong in the modlog

You literally said this

Or call me when Russians start kidnapping children like the Americans did in…oh wait that’s unique to Russia

And cried whataboutism when they pointed out you were wrong by bringing up what Americans did.

Cuba and Russia, both which exist as they exist because of US meddling. The US was directly responsible for the undemocratic dissolution of the USSR without which this war wouldn’t be happening. The US is directly responsible for cuban economic desperation as they’ve been sieging Cuba ever since the communists overthrew the US puppet dictator and installed a socialist democracy.

Cw: pedophilia, rape

Or call me when Russians start kidnapping children like the Americans did in…oh wait that’s unique to Russia

If you plug your ears and say “lalala” you can ignore the mass kidnapping of vietnamese and cuban children. As well as refugee children that is still ongoing and is connected to pedophile rings.

How about when America stops using rape as a tactic in war…oh shit they did that a century ago

They literally are still raping US female soldiers at ridiculous rates. What do you think they do to women they’ve been trained to dehumanize?

folks, this is the nerd who claims fascist states are freer than socialist states

The DPRK is the least free society on earth right now if you consider that to be socialist

Let me guess, you get your propaganda about them from the country that killed 20 percent of Koreans so that it could keep its fascist puppet dictatorship going, or from its allies.

Hungary, which has fascists in the highest office, is freer than DPRK

It is funny how ignorant you are on what fascism is while claiming I’m ignorant. Have you actually researched how fascism is distinct from liberal democracy? Because liberal democracies with fascists in office can exist without becoming fascist. Fascism is primarily a switch in the primary way of increasing profits changing from abstract surplus labor extraction to concrete surplus labor extraction. If you dont understand what that means, literally learn basic economics.

Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was quite possibly the least free society in history if you consider them socialist.

Let me guess, you consider the nazis to be socialist too huh? Honeslt this reeks of not knowing your history and falling for the “nationalist socialist” label. If you have a 101 knowledge of their history it is obvious that they weren’t socialist.

Keep crying your tears child because you clearly cannot argue from a position of knowledge.

Tankies that take socialism as a religion are the WORST.

People who take anticommunism as a religion to the point where they endorse fascism as an alternative are the worse. Consider:

Okay, but have you considered, in response to your claim that fascist governments are freer:

Alternatively, a source that should meet with your standards: link