it would never occur to you that they are anything but “tankies”
Well, I heard them advocate alot for people defending their own communities and didn't hear them advocate at all for invading neighboring communities and forcing them to accept their form of socialism at gun point. Thus they have not met the definition of Tankie
but a revolution is doomed to fail without popular support
Which is why almost all of them ultimately collapsed. East Germany famously got to a point where they were spending more money on the Secret Police than on the military.
the purpose of Marxism-Leninism is to abolish classes
Todays home work assignment is to look up "Defacto and Dejure"
Why are you going through old comments of mine to reply to?
Don't flatter yourself. You churn out comments at an incredible rate and you're on half the Posts I look at.
Can you name any that aren't one of the Castros? And then narrow down the list if you can name any to those who would be ignorant enough to fall for a Kompromat operation?
Could it be that in order to become the kind of wealthy socialite Epstein was doing, you would have to abandon your communist principles entirely?
There were numerous Russians who abandoned their "communists principles" at the first opportunity for wealth and power, most famously Vladimir Putin. Russians mastered the honeypot/Kompromat operation though and you have to assume the Russians in the know would be warily of them.
Are you suggesting China didn’t have a long well-earned reputation for corrupt low level party officials maintaining mistresses and enjoying luxuries far about their official pay?
Are you suggesting China didn't have a long well-earned reputation for corrupt low level party officials maintaining mistresses and enjoying luxuries far about their official pay?
I just did a cursory search online and the only markup I could fine below 30% was cellphones at about 8-10% and groceries at 5-25%. Now, I wouldn't make a wager on the precise accuracy of a cursory glance but it's telling that even in a Capitalist society, no ones denying their huge markups. Most sources list the markup on cloths to be 50-400%
It can be challenging for members of the ruling class to set themselves apart from each other socially with wealth alone so they attempt to do so in other ways such a patronage or association with intellectuals. Voltaire is a useful Archetype to understand the concept because so much is known about him.
Steam provides more than just a one time exchange of download for money, so I wouldn't exactly compare it to a store where you walk out the door and your exchange is completed. As a leftists, I think Steam makes too much money and should charge less and pay more but in a capitalist nation i don't see Epic having a successful case
Free Healthcare and and Higher education are the main reasons enlisted soldiers join the US military; both things that countries that aren't Empires offer to all their citizens.
They're only letting congress read unredacted versions of files they've already released to the public in redacted form. So nothing unvetted is being released to congress.
I envy you that you've never taken a shit with your sphincter on fire and a tear rolling down your face