You’re claiming that capitalism is better on having elected women officials? First off, no. GDR and west Germany had similar rates of women in leadership, and women had political organization through the democratic women’s front.

Second off the framing is bad: I care less about smashing the glass ceiling than I care about not being hatecrimed in a rampantly misogynistic culture. I care about having the economic independence to leave abusive relationships, and to date for love and pleasure and not financial security.

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I didn’t call it communism, and neither did the ruling communist parties. Transitional socialism is the proper word.

Calling something state capitalist when capitalism heavily relies on the state by default shows you need to hit the books on how capitalism actually functions.

Calling something state capitalist when capitalism heavily relies on the state by default shows you need to hit the books on how capitalism actually functions.

HOW THE FUCK CAN I STOP IT?!?!?!?

If you actually want to stop fascism in the long term you’ll need to join a socialist org. Liberals have historically acquiesced to fascism because of systemic forces inherent to capitalism.

If you’d like to know more, I’d recommend reading “The economy and class structure of german fascism”

Why is it inflammatory? As a mod I’m genuinely surprised people are upset by this, it is a white house press statement with an editorialized title that summarizes the event quickly and without any commentary on it.

when in reality people who showed a smidge of dissent were persecuted.

Look up how the stasi dealt with lgbt dissidents after being told to solve the issue and then come back here and say that with a straight face.

Dissidents for “hey we need to fix the problems of socialism” or dissidents for “we have to dissolve socialist democracy and let the capitalists pillage us” were treated very differently.

And the ones arguing for dissolving socialism got what they wanted, and the result is justification enough for their oppression tbh. Better to suppress right wing dissidents than let them oppress vast swathes of the population.

“communism” at least as practiced in the USSR, Cuba, North Korea and China.

What are you talking about? Research how many rights women and lgbt people lost when the GDR fell for an example of how wrong-headed this line of thinking is.

For those who want light reading, I highly recommend “Why women had better sex under socialism, and other arguments for economic independence”

Hey, as a trans person involved in a socialist org, get involved in a socialist org instead of arguing for your own catharsis.

Trans genocide is happening in plenty of states even with a democrat in charge, democrats will not prevent trans genocide on a long term basis.

The major differences between a liberal and a social democrat or progressive comes down largely to deciding when a market has failed and when to use government intervention,

Okay sounds like you’re just describing different labels for liberalism.

Compare these people to a communist who thinks we should literally nationalize and worker-self-manage the relevant sectors of economy and you’ll see what people are trying to tell you about how liberals and conservatives are basically the same.

Or you’ll get more communist when you have people to protect, like children or friends who start getting sick now that they’re not young anymore

1. they are the majority of the forces in the United front which includes everything from communists to conservatives

2. that didn’t answer my question at all. I will rephrase for your benefit:

Please explain how supporting Hamas(and other Palestinian resistance) negatively effects nonzionist Jewish folks.

Hey, please don’t use mediabiasfactcheck, the guy is just a center right tool without any qualifications to be making statements about the accuracy of reporting.

Also, please remember that fact checkers aren’t really useful for determining the accuracy of a piece and you should practice “critical reading” skills instead of relying on random people who make websites to tell you how truthful something is.

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and said “pro-Palestinian groups have voiced support for Hamas” (both issues that affect the non-Zionist Jewish community, and that I have personally witnessed).

Please explain how supporting Palestinian resistance negatively effects nonzionist Jewish folks.

Germany is one of the few countries that actually very critically review their own history and spend a lot of effort on teaching younger generations the horrors of war (and of national socialism obviously).

Wow, wild how Germany supports the genocide in Israel then. You’d have thought they were actually taught about that sort of stuff in school.

I’m guessing Germans also learned about how denazification didn’t really happen in the western occupation zone after like 47? And how many former nazis had high ranking positions in NATO?

Please don’t spread the Uyghur genocide narrative here. Adrian Zenz is not a reliable source and connected to the US state.

Like, the elected politicians and bureaucracy can’t be trusted enough to regulate industry under capitalism so we’ll centralize things and then trust them to regulate industry under Communism?

Literally read State and Revolution by Lenin which talks about how people assume the state has a neutral character, but actually it has a class character reflecting who it is designed to serve.

“One of the USSRs biggest mistakes was giving Ayn Rand an education”

Ok but socdem. And before you try to make a counter argument with [insert nordic country that is actually capitalist]

??? That is a novel take “let us split power with our oppressors, but Nordic countries don’t do that”

they always call the ussr and china communist while they arent.

Yeah the USSR was and China is a transitionary socialist state lead by a communist party.

Get it together people.