FunkyStuff [he/him]

It’s a NATO problem. It’d definitely be wrong to hold Ukraine to be uniquely responsible for NATO’s legacy, and Ukraine isn’t even formally part of NATO. If you want a full breakdown of the history of the NATO bloc’s Nazi problem, have you read Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds?

muster any genuine evidence there’s a systemic problem.

Actually, that’s men’s fault too, Rowan.

It is adventurism just by definition, unless it’s being carried out by some kind of underground, organized revolutionary cell network.

And the last time the KMT controlled anything even nearly ressembling what they claim to be the rightful rulers of was in the 40s.

The buregoise are a plague a systematic plague and you help them by having a class war that they become desperate to win.

These were your words from the previous comment. Are you against class war or not?

And when I say there’s no beneficial policy I mean you won’t ever get lasting reforms by electing better politicians, you’ll just get temporary concessions that will be taken away the next time there’s a crisis. I think looking at the fall of European social democracy since the dissolution of the USSR should prove my point: European workers opted for just getting “beneficial policy” instead of revolution, and now the benefits are gone.

What are you talking about? The “peaceful” status quo is already a class war. Capitalism is devouring the planet by creating conditions that will inevitably displace hundreds of millions of people as ecosystems collapse over the next ~20 years. I don’t even want to imagine how many people are going to die of starvation, heat stroke, or gunned down at the borders by the fascist stormtroopers. That is a level of violence that no socialist state has ever unleashed on the world, not even in WW2. There is no “beneficial policy.” Capital only responds to profit, that’s why workers strike instead of appealing to the good nature of their employers. Don’t you think the same applies to the whole system? The capitalists, executives of energy companies for example, have known they were destroying the world for decades. In the early 2000s they were writing letters to the Bush admin asking the government to put stronger regulations on them, because capital is entirely incapable of stopping itself from the race to the bottom, to make the most profit possible out of the exploitation of labor and natural resources. You should seriously consider how possible it is to stop these processes without revolution.

What do you call Cuba, China, Vietnam, Laos, the former Burkina Fasso under Sankara, or the former USSR? Do you sincerely believe those countries had a better standard of living for all people, especially workers and peasants, under capitalism? Isn’t the great fall from grace of the USSR proof that the benefits their people had received were indeed the fruits of socialism and not the “rising tide” of global capitalist development (which was actually exacerbating poverty in the global South outside of the socialist countries)?

Why? What’s your wisdom you’d like to share with us socialists outside of the imperialist countries?

There are two classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. There’s myriad bourgeois ideologies and myriad proletarian ideologies. When the proletarians come to power, the bourgeoisie oppose their ideology and their state. That’s true of third world communist projects.