November 13, 20223 yr 42 minutes ago, Dave Moss said: Communism is supposed to be an international movement, which is why communists try to help other communist governments succeed. Ok I'm going to derail here. Marxism is supposed to be international, not all of communism. The other major player at the time was Bakunin, and at the second international he called out Marx because Bakunin perceived, correctly, that classes still had a place in communism and that national communism was the better option. (He went so far as to point out that any government under a Marxist system would have defacto classes, which they did.) All Marxists are communists, not all communists are Marxists. It's like the argument that people make that NSDAPs weren't really socialists because they were nationalists and had a class system. It completely ignores any types of socialism or communism not directly related to Marx, and falsely assumes that Marxism is the sole or, barring that, dominant form of communism. For example, at the first and second internationals, Marx didn't even have a simple majority of followers in attendance.
November 13, 20223 yr 17 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: The only solution that doesn’t amount to a pause is to invade Russia and I don’t think anyone in here is thinking in those terms. Am I wrong? I think the solution that doesn't amount to a pause is to get Russia completely out of Ukraine, and then immediately after they sign a defensive treaty with big league players. There's a reason Russia never invaded a NATO country.
November 13, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, DrPhilly said: The only solution that doesn’t amount to a pause is to invade Russia and I don’t think anyone in here is thinking in those terms. Am I wrong? For now……
November 13, 20223 yr 54 minutes ago, Bill said: I think the solution that doesn't amount to a pause is to get Russia completely out of Ukraine, and then immediately after they sign a defensive treaty with big league players. There's a reason Russia never invaded a NATO country. Still a pause. They will regroup. I agree this is the best solution based on what we know today.
November 13, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Dave Moss said: Communism is supposed to be an international movement, which is why communists try to help other communist governments succeed. And yet always fails
November 13, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, DrPhilly said: Still a pause. They will regroup. I agree this is the best solution based on what we know today. What's the deal with Iceland? All that licorice and an incomprehensible dialect.
November 13, 20223 yr 15 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: What's the deal with Iceland? All that licorice and an incomprehensible dialect. Free Willy
November 14, 20223 yr 16 hours ago, Abracadabra said: No child trafficking? You getting rusty old man.
November 14, 20223 yr 16 hours ago, Abracadabra said: Yeah, but how big was the pallet, or were there MULTIPLE pallets?
November 14, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: This is what Ukrainian "liberation" looks like. What’s the punishment for treason in Russia ?
November 14, 20223 yr 14 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: This is what Ukrainian "liberation" looks like. It's a terrible look for Ukraine no doubt. Yet still much better than how pro-Ukrainian citizens were treated by Russia, where they're being found is mass graves anywhere Russians were. And since you're circling back to the notzee crap, another reminder that Wagner - employed broadly by Putin in the war and significantly more effective than Russia's own "professional" army - is named after Hitler's favorite musician and founded by Dmitry Utkin, former GRU and full time actual notzee: Been a rough week for Putin. His MAGA allies get thumped, loses Kherson, Xi checks him on nuclear threats, and he's still going to die seeing Ukraine not only free and whole but more prosperous than Russia.
November 14, 20223 yr Looking more and more like Pavlivka was nothing more than a political demand to try and deflect from the loss of Kherson. Russia lost a ton - thousands - of experienced fighters over the village and is now struggling to hold it. And Russia still is throwing waves of men at Bakhmut and getting smoked. Bakhmut is very defensible, and its defenders are besieged but holding while the invaders are forced into a meat grinder. Yet some vatniks claim Russia cares about its soldiers. Russia only cares about politics of war, which is why it is losing. And it only cares about the lives of its armed forces insofar as it affects the power dynamics in Moscow. Period.
November 14, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, Abracadabra said: This is what Ukrainian "liberation" looks like. Public stockade for a traitor, versus rape/torture/murder Typical Russian - You can dish it out, but can't take even 1% back. See any good sledgehammer vids today?
November 14, 20223 yr "I don't care where mobiks come from as long as it doesn't cause an uprising in Moscow or St Petersburg" -Putin, probably, in September.
November 14, 20223 yr Prefacing this with "everything can be a psyop and the fog of war is very complicated in this war" .. but this would be damn interesting:
November 14, 20223 yr How the Russians actually treat prisoners as opposed to the lies generated by the fascists.
November 14, 20223 yr "here's one time Russian soldiers were on camera and not a-holes" POW exchanges show the truth loser. Every prisoner from Ukraine has been healthy and fed. Ukrainian prisoners have come back barely alive.
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