So yes, we are supposed to take your word even though you cited literally no source.

Sooo… You either can’t or won’t say who proved it or what that proof is but we’re still supposed to take your words for it?

Literally pretty much everything Lenin wrote about Trotsky was him calling Trotsky an idiot who has no clue what he’s talking about half the time and was generally a nuisance to their party work and organizing. In what world was Lenin better friend, or friend at all, with Trotsky than Stalin?

I’ve been using lemmy exclusively on desktop so I don’t know much about the mobile app experience.

On desktop we have those options to interact with a community:

I don’t think there is a way to search directly in a community on jerboa.

From my understanding, the accession to power of Khrushchev was a wake up call that prompted the Chinese to examine not only Khrushchev’s revisionism but earlier mistakes from before Khrushchev as well. Before that, China had a tendency to just do what the USSR recommended them to do with minimal consideration like most of the socialist block was doing.

But someone more read than me on the PRC’s history would be better able to tell you about these events than I can.

The imperials took inspiration from their family tree to make their system I see.

I love that the same and we use today for communist memes were passed down to us by soviet comrades.

Mixed economy is necessary in the first stage of socialism. Here’s how China’s academy of science sees it:

Engels was already saying as much in Principles of communism:

Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke?

No, no more than existing forces of production can at one stroke be multiplied to the extent necessary for the creation of a communal society.

In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity.

Earlier socialist experiments had periods of mixed economies too, for example the USSR with Lenin’s NEP(new economic policy). However, these early socialist experiments made the mistake of ending this phase way too early, including China under Mao. It’s only after the Khrushchevist opportunists took over the Soviet Union that China realized the soviet approach was misguided on multiple points and decided to start over this early phase of socialism under Deng Xiaoping, with the intention to let it run its course to the end this time.

One major flaw of the Soviet way of ending the mixed economy phase as soon as possible and directly switching to a nationally owned command economy is that it forced them in a position of constantly butting heads with a capitalist world at the peak of it’s power with a primitive, still burgeoning socialism (remember that the USSR and Mongolia had been the only socialist countries in the world until the end of world war 2).

The fact that the world’s bourgeoisie wouldn’t be able to access the soviet market regardless of what they did meant there was little downside for the capitalists to impose full embargo on the Soviets and refuse to share technology. Not only did this severely curb the Soviet’s ability to get anything from foreign countries (which really didn’t help during the famine), it meant the USSR was constantly on the back-foot trying to re-invent technologies that had already been invented in the west, causing Soviet technology to be perpetually behind despite the high quality of their science. Plus, being denied access to such a huge market made the capitalist world especially mad and warmongering, particularly since, with capitalists being denied access to the Soviet market, bombing the USSR wouldn’t destroy any private property belonging to any capitalists nor disturb any of their businesses.

With its Socialism with Chinese characteristics model, China use capitalism’s own contradictions against it. When China opened it’s market to foreign investment, the huge potential market and cheap labor pool was just too much too pass up, the capitalists probably knew that China was still socialist and that implanting these humongous manufacturing capabilities in China with all the technical knowledge this imply would strengthen China at their expense no less, but whether they knew that or not didn’t matter, the capitalists needed to go to China to maximize their profits. This also works to temper western aggression, with so much of the capitalist’s manufacturing capabilities based in China and so much of their business and supply chains going through China, including the ones allowing them to arm their military, the capitalists are quite reluctant to go to war against China despite all their warmongering rhetoric, that’s also both why they’re so desperate to get their businesses out of China and why they can’t do it: they need to get out of China so that they can bomb China without breaking their own toys, but none of them want to be the first to get out of China because they know that if one gets out but the others stay, the one who got out is gonna get out-competed by the ones who stayed.

Totenkopf/gestapo skull:

Exactly what the name says, a human skull symbol used by the gestapo.

Emblem of the 14th waffen grenadier division of the SS:

The emblem of a branch of the SS that operated in Ukraine during the occupation.

The iron cross:

Like the wolfsangel, this one is a bit sneaky due to the variety of forms it takes.

These are only some of the most used ones that I can think off. There are many more.

If you pay attention you’ll see these frequently on photos of Ukrainian soldiers or in photos taken inside a Ukrainian politician’s home or office.

Imperialism isn’t just taking over territory. If it was almost every country would be imperialist and it wouldn’t be a very useful word now would it. Invasion is one way to force a country in a state of imperialist subjugation, but it isn’t what imperialism is.

The accusation that the current Ukrainian government is run by neo-nazis doesn’t come from nowhere, it is common to see Ukrainians soldiers and politicians harboring various fascist nazi related symbols including on official photos. They aren’t brandishing swastikas of course (at least not when there are journalists around) even fascist understand that this wouldn’t fly even in the heavily propagandized west, instead they use less well known fascist symbols. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some they use often:

The flag of the OUN:

The OUN was a fascist paramilitary group that operated in Ukraine during ww2 and openly collaborated with the Nazi invaders.

The face of Stepan Bandera:

The leader of the militant faction of the OUN. The Ukrainian government has taken various actions to enshrine him as a “war hero”, including passing a law that forbid denying that he was. Some Ukrainian military patches have his face on them.

The black sun or sonnerad:

A symbol created by Heinrich Himler and used by neo-nazis world wide. You can see it on the Azov patches.

The wolfsangel:

A “rune” widely used as symbol in nazi germany and by neo-nazis. This one tend to be more sneaky than the other, especially with the variations in dimensions and orientations it’s displayed in. Ukrainian fascist like to deny its nazi origin and claim that their’s is actually a capital I and N mashed together and standing for “the Idea of a Nation”. You also see it on Azov patches:

What’s the “most communist” image you have on your computer right now?

Mine is this picture of a golden statue of Oh Chi Minh surrounded by gold star on red and hammer and sickle flags:

Sure. I’m not nearly done reading it though.

Elementary principles of philosophy by Georges Politzer is very good at explaining both Idealist and Materialist philosophies as well as metaphysics and dialectics. It’s based on a lecture about the philosophical bases of Marxism and I think every Marxist should read it. I’m currently reading it myself.

👈 Like this

4 peoples recount to the press the time they were stranded on a small uninhabited island. 3 of them talk about how hard the 4th made it for them because he would eat almost everything that they fished, hunted and harvested by himself and leave only leftovers for the 3 and didn’t fish, hunt or harvest anything himself.

An economist cut them off and says that, actually, the 4th did them a favor because he generated almost all the demand for fish, meat and fruits and without him they wouldn’t have had a job on the island.

Even among ourselves, from our memes to our effort posts, we talk a lot more about history and current events than about theory. Recently I’ve been wishing we’d discuss more about theory, not only because we don’t talk about it enough even tough we really don’t, but also because I like talking about economics and philosophy more than about history.

We need more memes about dialectical materialism, falling rates of profits and alienation.

Very good advice.

Yes, we spend to much time battling it out with liberals on controversial historical and current event topics and not nearly enough explaining Marxist economics and philosophy, even though the latter is arguably more important. Especially at a time where liberal dominance of media and education have largely snuffed out debates about communist theory and made sure that virtually any and all discussions of communism would revolve around the liberal interpretation of what communists allegedly did or didn’t do in far away countries a long time ago.

This has great meme template potential.

We need more leftist meme templates.

And that’s on top of having to launch >20 starships back to back to fill up the tank of the one supposed to land on the moon because of evaporation of the cryogenic fuel mind you.

👈 It’s afraid.