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 No.296564[View All]

QTDDTOT - Questions that don't need their own thread. The last one died, so here post your questions here.

I'll start, why is a centralized authority important to achieving communism and why is this seen a positive aspect.
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 No.396300

>>396278
The Sublime Object of Ideology - Slavoj Zizek
Violence - Slavoj Zizek
Absolute Recoil - Slavoj Zizek
Sex and the Failed Absolute - Slavoj Zizek
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 No.396303

>>396298
Okay, but I want to read philosophy too

>>396300
thanks, Slavoj
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 No.396426

>>396300
Is this guy's work hard to understand? From his videos he seems to rarely bother to make his statements clear, and just comes across as a pseudo-intellectual.
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 No.396943

Why is socialism better than anarchism?
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 No.396948

>>396943
>Why is socialism better than anarchism?
Read book.
How anarchism is not Socialist?
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 No.396960

>>396948
A better question would be how is socialism not anarchist

>>396943
Read On Authority by Engels
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 No.396986

>>396948
It seems that socialists experiences even though most of them bring better quality of life still are authoritarian states that opresses minorities
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 No.396988

>>396960
okay i will read it thank you
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 No.396998

>>396986
>opresses minorities
Read the soviet encyclopedia, they clearly praised prebaltikan and other minority group states and looked up do them, not oppressed the people of those countries
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 No.397548

How are communists "left-wing" if they every time establish a very hierarchical state, whereas libertarians are "right-wing" despite wanting less restrictions and government in general?
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 No.397570

>>397548
libertarianism is an idealized 1970s imagination of what capitalism looked like in the 1860s. it is not a description accurate to any society that has existed in history. libertarians who go into mainstream politics are not libertarians, they are at best paleocons and much more often just neoliberal vampires. why call it right-wing? i think of libertarianism as being like jediism or discordianism. it's something between a joke religion and a harmless but actual cult.
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 No.397811

What is the point of placing sanctions on government officials? I genuinely don't understand what purpose they even have, economic sanctions I get it, because for a world power with the capacity to enforce sanctions and make sure everyone follows them or they'll be severely punished if they don't, if you don't care about hurting the population of the country you're sanctioning and only about destabilizing said country's government, then yes clearly they make sense. However, I don't understand what purpose sanctions against individuals have. So what do these entail, that this person can't travel to your country (the country placing the sanctions), can't make any business with people from the sanctioning country (and the sanctioning government will enforce this to the best of their ability), possible can't have their family members traveling to the country placing the sanctions, etc. Is there anything else I'm missing that should also be considered? Because these conditions alone don't really seem to make that big of an effect tbh, I don't see how they could destabilize (if that's even their intended purpose) the sanctioned government more efficiently than economic sanctions.
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 No.401265

Q1: What THE FUCK do I do? I'm a dumb teen, I read theory, slowly, after that, how do I start organizing and making a people's party?

Q2: What exactly is the vanguard's role and rhetoric? Is it supposed to convince people capitalism is shit? But that's utopian, isn't it? It's supposed to blame capitalism for the hardships people are already experiencing then, but that would require it to give an alternative, which is utopian too, right? Imagining a better society instead of working with the real material conditions. What is it supposed to say then? "Get us into power and we will do things according to this book to achieve communism, and communism is good actually, read all these books" ? I don't think that's gonna convince the masses to buy it. Wat do
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 No.403353

Why was the capitalist bloc afraid of a neutral Germany turning communist when they had agreed with the Soviets to have Austria be neutral?
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 No.403370

>>403353
They fear losing their profits and fear of losing their friends. You see, (West) Germany had several conglomerates, such as Siemens, Krupp, Heckler and Koch, Thyssen, Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, and much more. So in order to protect the interests of theirs Western powers colluded to make Germany pro-West where it remains today.
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 No.403395

>>403370
Why not the same for Austria, which has OMV group and plenty of financial companies, among other things?
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 No.403399

>>403395
It's not as influential as Germany. Austria's far smaller in land size and population as Germany and hence have far less companies to profit off. If they do want to, it's only Glock they could profit off. Also most conglomerates today descend from what is then the Holy Roman Empire/German Empire.
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 No.403406

>>401265
1. Identify the problem or problems in your community that need addressing. Then find people interested in fixing that problem. This is going to involve talking to a lot of people to find out what's going on, who is affected, and who can or wants to help. Call your local churches, community centers, shelters, etc. Figure out what people need, then figure out ways to see those needs filled.

2. Ideally the vanguard should be able to offer practical explanations and guidance to the proletariat which help the working class achieve emancipation and revolution. It doesn't necessarily need to have all the answers, but it should be able to develop solutions via an explicit and coherent political philosophy.

Take water access for example. The vanguard party should be able to clearly articulate the political, social, and economic forces which are creating crises like we're seeing in places like California where the rich water the lawns of their massive estates and cashew farms drain the land dry, while regular people have to shower every other week and go without washing their clothes. Or even Flint, Michigan style fiascos where entire towns are poisoned because of cost cutting measures, etc.

Your vanguard party should be able to say how they're going to fix it, both in terms of the material facts of how they're going to provide water or clean it or whatever, as well as the social changes necessary (like making water a right rather than a commodity), and the theoretical basis for doing so.
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 No.403415

>>403406
What are common problems in communities, and is water supply something that can be resolved by organizing? It sounds like it would be expensive and require at least mayoral power.
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 No.403430

>>403415
Child care, food security, transportation, literacy, translation, medical, dental, and vision care, depression and suicide, drug use and rehabilitation, domestic abuse, sexual or physical abuse, prisoner rehabilitation, legal advice, fire control, neighborhood security, the list goes on and on. That's why it's important to talk to the people in your community to find out what they need, what they have, and how ends might be made to meet.

You don't have to solve these problems necessarily, especially when you're just starting, but people will remember who does for them.

I mean, organizing isn't going to make more rain fall or fill up depleted aquifers, but having an organized group can help apply political pressure, changing how existing water resources are used, owned, etc. The bourgeois political system is just one avenue though, and if you're talking vanguard party shit, then alternative methods have to be considered as well.
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 No.403649

If single men don't change history, then would Stalin living 10 more ears purging and putting USSR on the right tracks even happen?
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 No.404793

The only book I've read so far that even touched on this time period was by a bourgeois economist historian but…Tito wasn't based right? He caused the split with his nationalist autism and then sold out to the West.
Would love some recommendation for history books covering 1945-1991 Europe that is at least neutral and not the anti-communist propaganda I keep finding
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 No.407053

Is it true that the Soviet Union put pressure on the West, by existing, to give their own workers better living conditions and pay, so that they won't be tempted by socialism? Did Americans benefit by the existence of USSR?
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 No.407101

>>407053
Of course it's true. Just look at how quickly things reversed when the soviet union started going into crisis and finally collapsed.
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 No.407110

>>407101
All thanks to that straw that broke East Germany's back. 1989 was sort of a jackpot for the US and NATO. They opportunized it, supported the Baltic separatist movement, and supporting other "revolutionaries".
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 No.407125

>>407101
Weren't conditions worsening from about 1970 onwards? Wages and labor productivity began to separate at that time, the gold standard ended, etc.
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 No.407168

>>407125
mid 70s. The ussr was already in the decline.
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 No.407175

>>407168
Even the American leadership didn't think it was in trouble until the mid-80s though.
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 No.407670

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is social wage the same as social security wage?
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 No.407818

Why do you communists always resort to whataboutism when we point out the human rights atrocities in places like China!
>but but american colonists killed more than 1 billion natives
and…..that has exactly nothing to do with the current chinese government trying to suppress all thoughts and actions of their current citizenry they don't agree with. If you are going to be a troll, at least be close to accurate.
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 No.407826

>>407818
Stick to your own shit thread. You wrote this paragraph already.
>>407816
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 No.407832

>>407670
I wanna fuck that gourd
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 No.407847

>>407818
Literally the exact same thing applies in the other way
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 No.407854

>>407826
Kys
>>407847
No it doesnt
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 No.407857

>>407818
what human rights atrocities?
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 No.407870

>>407857
Ethnic cleansing and broad repression in Xinjiang (no, it's not "just terrorists")
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 No.407873

>>407818
It's kind of like a "mind your own business and worry about your own country". In some sense we can really only practically affect our own polities, so whining about atrocities elsewhere usually functionally ends up supporting imperialism or sanctions in one way another. Human rights are usually selectively applied in service to bourgeois ideology.
However the "anti imperialist" countersignaling does get insufferable, and even veers into deranged "critical support for ISIS" territory.
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 No.407935

>>407873
You think China is communist? LOL
You should stop role-playing on the internet and move to Venezuela or North Korea.
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 No.407943

>>407870
Thats honestly an eye opening video I didnt know it was that bad. My heart goes out to the innocent Muslims suffering under totalitarian dictatorship
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 No.407945

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>>407935
>China is not communist
>But Vuvuzela and North Korea are
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 No.408001

>>407945
China is not communist bitch. Its only successful due to capitalism. Every country nowadays is dropping communism like the hot garbage it is, in favor of freedom.
Venezuela and north korea are prime examples of communism in practice though.
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 No.408009

>>408001
>Muh Vuvuzuela
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 No.408011

>>408001
Venezuela has a quite sizeable private sector and it's been like that for years even after Chavez was elected president, it's not even Cuba tier, it never was.

But I'm replying to a /pol/ retard that unironically believes in "muh freedom" while the bourgeois deep state is pulling the strings behind both Biden and Trump.
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 No.408018

>>408001
China has a larger state sector and higher levels of socialisation than Venezuela.
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 No.408029

>>408001
>freedom to be a cuck is the most precious thing there is
beautiful anon
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 No.409555

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Is an actor part of the bourgeoisie? She probably owns an business because of how much money they have, but probably makes more of her money from working as an actor?
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 No.409580

>>409555
Yes, CEOs are bourgeois too even though they don't actually 'own' their business
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 No.409588

>>407935
absolutely moronic statement
i guess socdem have no idea what communism is about, unsurprisingly
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 No.411908

>>407935
>You think China is communist? LOL
dude you're a fucking demsoc have just a little self awareness
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 No.412843

>>403430
How do i talk to them? I mean in a literal sense, patterns of speech, what do I emphasize, how do I even strike up such a conversation?

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