Who’s the one telling you that the USSR, Cuba, China, Venezuela or Vietnam are/were autocracies?

If you actually investigate countries that have substantive / economic democracy, which goes far beyond the liberal equality before the law, you’ll find them to be far more democratic than the countries accusing them of being autocracies.

USonians used to be more community-focused. In the 1950s polio was eradicated due to massive community efforts, showing that they were willing to do things to benefit their community.

Nowadays they won’t even do the same to benefit their extended families.

During covid, going to a rural area in the US really got to me. The population is so individualistic / freedom-brained / “i do whatever I want all the time”, that their grandmothers all dying meant nothing to them. I got mine keeps meaning smaller and smaller groups of people.

Or even better, reading books. With respect to a small minority, podcasts are not a great source to learn about anything.

It’s such a long book(> 20 hours), but very good. I only finished it ~ a year ago, and I remember the person who recorded the audiobook said it’s been a journey.

I like this version better, thx.

Anytime anyone whines about “commies / tankies”, they’re entirely complicit with these mass killings.

Good article from forward on the existing Nazi collaborator monuments in Latvia, and their participation in the Holocaust.

Stalin offered the western powers a million men to field against nazi germany, and they refused.

It’s the US who’s been killing Muslims for decades, not China, which is why only the white-supremacist countries believe those lies.

It’s the most anti-communist country on the planet, so there’s not much hope. Talk of raising wages or organizing collectively, or not agreeing with US imperialist foreign policy gets you labelled a commie / tankie by its witch-hunting, McCarthyite majority.

If there’s a list of countries to next take the communist road, the US would be dead last.

This has never done anything in countries that use it, like SK, Japan, Australia, etc. It might make the candidate stacking a little more expensive, but that’s it.

If capital stands above the political system, the method of voting doesn’t matter.

We’ve been dealing with these too at lemmy.ml, don’t sweat it, we’ll figure it out. Happy bday! Hope it was a good one.

Kamala was VP under Biden, who like Obama gave billions to Israel to murder Palestinians. Even tho the majority of people oppose the war, they get this anyway.

The US is not a democracy, it’s a capitalist dictatorship.

Democrats IRL: Giving standing ovations to Netanyahu, and giving him billions to kill Palestinians.

They’re a brutal, vicious party, and anyone who associates with them should have to answer for their crimes against humanity.

No, this is what display names are for.

From the communist manifesto:

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes.

You must, therefore, confess that by “individual” you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.