[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 months ago

Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. They stick together because they are symptoms of the same illness. I too long for the day when the U.S empire is just a distant bad memory, tavarish.

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[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Literately 1984?

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 11 months ago

I know I'm not alone feeling like this when I try to explain to friends what communism really is, and how it could free us from exploitation and save the planet from climate catastrophe.

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what social democrats look like. Stinkyberg was the Prime minister of Norway representing Norways social democratic Party "the workers party". Farting socialist terminology like "solidarity" and working class struggle. It's all words for these morons. Tricking the proletariat to believe they are fighting their cause.

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

So... how do I subscribe to communities on hexbear? or am I misunderstanding something here?

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

In soviet, lots of things happened. Firstly, famine was not uncommon in the first place. Countless deaths from famine was also the case before the October revolution. Just in the beginning of the1900's there were famines in 1901, 1906 and 1911, and not long before that, there was a famine in 1891 which claimed 500k lives.

The collectivisation of agriculture often gets the blame for excessive deaths during the 1932 famine. It would be better to say that the landowners(Kulaks) reaction to the collectivisation caused excessive deaths. Millions of cattle and pigs were slaughtered and left to rot by the kulaks and crops were burned.

In spite of these sabotages, there were still farms that successfully collectivised and managed to meet the quota set during the famine. Even though Ukraine SSR have had had the infamous rumor of genocide against Ukraine during the famine, it was also here the reaction against collectivisation was strongest, and sabotages to food production destroyed around 50% of crops and cattle.

The famine was actually worse in Kazakhstan in terms of percentage of population. And there was never a claim of genocide taking place in this region. Guess not being a neighbor to the west isolated you somewhat to western propaganda.

Long text, might contain errors, so feel free to point out anything you see

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 1 year ago

They didn't even manage to make it sound negative.

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

And now, let's destroy the possibility of a safe future in eastern Europe with the same inhumane weapons.

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago

China had/has sanctions on import/export of coal, some petroleum products as well as some textiles. I haven't read any statements about the their sanctions from China, so I don't know why.

It seems to come from a UN resolution, but I'm not sure

[-] LeftoverSoup@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago

If Hollywood wants to produce a movie about war/ show military operations etc. they can let the D.O.D in on the production/writing. If the D.O.D is allowed to co-write the script, the production team basically get to use equipment and military locations for free.

This is the part of the deal that's out in the open. I'm certain of that there's a lot more going on behind closed curtains.

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Is there an actual support for the Russian state, or is it propaganda to counter the pro-western propaganda?

I'm not very educated on this topic, so I come from a place of genuine curiosity. It just seems to me that many people here are pro Russia and anti Ukraine, and if that's the case, I would like to understand why.

In my eyes, the conflict in Ukraine bears no resemblance of class war. Of course I know of the nazi infested military groups sponsored by the Ukrainian government stationed in eastern Ukraine to kill the separatist movement. But I'm hesitant to trust any capitalist government to fight for actual people and their rights. This scepticism of course include the Russian state.

Please understand that this is my current understanding of the situation, and I struggle to get a better understanding of it. Mainstream media isn't doing me any favors in that regard, so I hope some of you guys are more educated in this topic than I am, and can point me to articles and news that depict this through a marxist lens.

Love and solidarity

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