repost from lemmygrad.ml

basically lemmy is seeing 1k + users and ALOT are libs, anyone willing to wade into the libereal infested word news posts:

https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews

on China or Russia your work countering the western propraganda would be appretiated.

Do your part today!

:im-doing-my-part:

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    What's a non-oppressive state? One that currently exists, preferably.

    It's nauseating hearing people talk about the nature of "real communism", like undergrads in Guevara t-shirts who have nothing but religious language to describe it because they have never studied the subject beyond cultural osmosis. Quoting Engels:

    The 'people's state' has been thrown in our faces by the anarchists to the point of disgust, although already Marx's book against Proudhon and later the Communist Manifesto say plainly that with the introduction of the socialist order of society the state dissolves of itself [sich auflost] and disappears. As the state is only a transitional institution which is used in the struggle, in the revolution, to hold down one's adversaries by force, it is sheer nonsense to talk of a 'free people's state'; so long as the proletariat still needs the state, it does not need it in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the state as such ceases to exist. We would therefore propose replacing the state everywhere by Gemeinwesen, a good old German word which can very well take the place of the French word commune.

    There is no pretense by the PRC that they have reached the final stage of socialism, referred to there by Engels as Gemeinwesen and usually called today simply "communism". They have never held except that they are in a transitional state, as all socialist states are and must be so long as [neo]liberal capitalism is part of the world order. A little isolated commune can do little else but stay afloat itself. A massive commune can do little else but be steamrolled by its capitalist encirclers.

    • paavi [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I fail to see China going towards this state of no state. Maybe it's just me. All I want is a revolution all over Europe and especially in Russia.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The development of the means of production to a sufficiently advanced state is one of the preconditions to communism, along with the destruction of the imperialist world order.

        If you think revolution in Russia is more immediately desirable than revolution in, say, France or Britain or Germany on any basis other than being somewhat less likely to be a fascist revolution, you're probably spending too much time on Reddit because those other countries are a much greater blight to the world. Do you think France controls all those African currencies and banks to just help the poor Africans with their fiscal management? Or that 150,000 German troops were sent to Afghanistan to build hospitals? Or that Britain is anything short of America's dog?

        • paavi [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Now, you are moving the goal posts and making assumptions without knowledge. I'll agree to disagree, especially on imperialism, but probably not in a way you'd think. You are also bringing up stuff I did not say nor imply. Thanks for making this a nice place to have a discussion.