You are completely misinformed.

First of all “kulaks” were not working peasants who lived self-sufficiently off farming their land and raising their livestock, you are thinking of “serednyaks”, the class below kulaks in the 4-tier rural class system of Imperial Russia. Kulaks were rural loan sharks and land owners who did not work but rather lived off extortionate interest rates from loans to “serednyaks” and from exploiting the labour of “bednyaks” (literally “the poor”) and, mainly, the seasonal labour of “batraks” who were the class below “the poor” - many of them homeless, traveling from village to village and working quite literally for a bit of food and a place to sleep in the barn.

If you intend to keep talking publically about kulaks, do look into those classes, look up who batraks were and what kind of life they lead before the revolution, the mortality, the diseases, how many they were compared to the number of kulaks. Find out what dekulakisation brought not only for kulaks, but also for that huge number of serednyaks, bednyaks, and batraks they exploited. Find out what dekulakisation did to overall child mortality, child hight, life expectancy, and so on.

Second, kulaks were not murdered, they were eliminated as an economic class by removing the relataionship of exploitation. Their lands were taken and given to the people, and the ones who resisted were deported with their families.

diamat sucks, change my mind

yeah they always compare the west as it is now with communist countries 50-100 years ago, right after the revolution, in the middle of civil war and famine, encircled by capitalist aggression etc.

unsurprising really, if your analysis by definition doesn’t account for material conditions and is purely idealistic, nothing stops you from comparing societies from different time periods, on different stages of economic and technical development, etc.

Sounds like a cyberpinocchio (only people raised in the USSR will understand)

I had a look, shame. Thanks for telling me.

I don’t get this, is Shea a nazbol? I read a few of his articles and liked them

Demsocs to socdems:

You support Röhm because you want gay representation. I support Strasser because I want worker-orientated politics. We are not the same.

Depression is simply doomerism, it should be a wojak doomer

yeah go ask a neonazi mi6 asset lol

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Same as anyone else really. “Professional” here just means to treat it seriously, be ready to sacrifice, devote fully to the cause. This phrase never meant a career path within the bourgeois society.

I was talking out of my arse! Went back and found the relevant place in Lenin’s “What is to be done”, chapter 4 part D, completely missed or forgot it:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/iv.htm

To be fully prepared for his task, the worker-revolutionary must likewise become a professional revolutionary. Hence B-v is wrong in saying that since the worker spends eleven and a half hours in the factory, the brunt of all other revolutionary functions (apart from agitation) “must necessarily fall mainly upon the shoulders of an extremely small force of intellectuals”. But this condition does not obtain out of sheer “necessity”. It obtains because we are backward, because we do not recognise our duty to assist every capable worker to become a professional agitator, organiser, propagandist, literature distributor, etc., etc. In this respect, we waste our strength in a positively shameful manner; we lack the ability to husband that which should be tended and reared with special care. […] A worker-agitator who is at all gifted and “promising” must not be left to work eleven hours a day in a factory. We must arrange that he be maintained by the Party; that he may go underground in good time; that he change the place of his activity, if he is to enlarge his experience, widen his outlook, and be able to hold out for at least a few years in the struggle against the gendarmes. As the spontaneous rise of their movement becomes broader and deeper, the working-class masses promote from their ranks not only an increasing number of talented agitators, but also talented organisers, propagandists, and “practical workers” in the best sense of the term (of whom there are so few among our intellectuals who, for the most part, in the Russian manner, are somewhat careless and sluggish in their habits). When we have forces of specially trained worker-revolutionaries who have gone through extensive preparation (and, of course, revolutionaries “of all arms of the service”), no political police in the world will then be able to contend with them, for these forces, boundlessly devoted to the revolution, will enjoy the boundless confidence of the widest masses of the workers. We are directly to blame for doing too little to “stimulate” the workers to take this path, common to them and to the “intellectuals”, of professional revolutionary training, and for all too often dragging them back by our silly speeches about what is “accessible” to the masses of the workers, to the “average workers”, etc.

Honestly at this point I prefer a right winger who defends SS for being just like the US Army to a leftist who defends NATO for being totally not Nazis. At least you know where they stand. Is this the horseshoe I’ve been hearing about?

“Falsifiers of history” is the official USSR answer to those accusations, edited by Stalin himself, and a really good read.

Brief overview on Wiki is actually ok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiers_of_History

But the whole thing is really worth reading: https://ebin.pub/falsifiers-of-history-an-historial-document-on-the-origins-of-world-war-ii.html

If you consider how value created by labour globally is distributed, you’ll see that all the Western workers are labour aristocracy, which together with petty bourgeoisie forms the so-called middle class (not exactly a Marxist term)

Yeah, you can already pre-register on Google playstore to have it installed automatically as soon as it releases

I had an inactive account since Reddit banned MoreTankieChapo, the API debacle and the release of Sync for Lemmy got me here. Sync is ok but I’m waiting for Boost which should release soon and will likely attract even more fence sitters.

Soldiers from special commando unit 112 with a Russian spy. The man, allegedly in possession of a fake Israeli passport, was living in Irpin months before the Russian invasion. Under interrogation he confessed his name is Alexei, from St Petersburg, married with a child and working for the Wagner Group

That one’s bizarre, it’s a civilian sitting in the mud barefoot with some sort of bag over his head and a rope round his neck.

So he lived in the area long before the invasion, but then was captured with an Israeli passport and under “interrogation” confessed to being a Russian spy?

And given the number of Nazis in the army, nothing about this seems off to the “Guardian-reading wokerati”?

Or he’s happy to throw Ukrainian refugees under the bus. If fear mongering and xenophobia forces them back it’s just more meat for the grinder.

Wow what a shitty thing to say and upvote.

Ukraine was a founding member of the USSR, the second largest republic, the bread basket of the whole country, and a major industrial centre.

You pulled the idea that Ukrainians were some ungrateful exploiters during the USSR period straight out your arse.

But to suggest that Ukrainians should be grateful to the West for the proxy war the West is so happy to wage to the last Ukrainian is something else.

Really disappointing to see this liberal brain rot upvoted here.

Only ever applies to the West. Chinese people who got everything they have under CPC rule don’t owe CPC anything, according to the same people.