If Trotsky was the leader of the Soviet project they would have likely collapsed in a war against the west in the 1930s. The Trotskyist wing could not accept the loss of Western Europe to capitalisms, and seemed determined to wage on offensive war.
His response of how to give the workers power seems like a material idea of him losing power to Stalin’s CPSU and making up a “correct” path of communist revolution to make the “true” communists himself and his followers.
It really never ends.
Providing all homes with a universal refrigerator and interchangeable parts, that a neighborhood mechanic could fix. That would destroy the entire industry of smart refrigerators. That’s degrowth
Now this is communism!
Not even gonna read, just gonna make an argument he might’ve made a point on.
If we stop the production of Funko, that’s degrowth.
If we stop the production of H&M and fast fashion, that’s degrowth.
If we stop the production Mountain Dew Baja blast 16oz bottles, that’s degrowth.
If we break up the military industrial complex, that’s degrowth.
If we do anything to slow down production of anything, it is degrowth and restructuring an economy.
Average Jacobin writer thinks we hit the communism and have space colonies and world peace overnight.
Do you enjoy being wrong constantly?
Also I bet you can’t wait to be supplied solely by US energy companies the next century. You will really see just how wonderful of a place we are.
I just don’t even know what to say anymore. You are an Internet poster, you are not running the US state department for Eurasian affairs. Saying what your opinions are is not the same as a Bureau Chief at the state department.
Added to that, Nuland goes out of her way to dismiss the EUs interests in those leaked phone calls. The US doesn’t want what’s best for Ukraine, or the EU. They are funding this war out of self interest. If you can’t see that I got nothing left to say.
Victoria Nuland was not a diplomat. She ran the Bureau of Eurasian Affairs in an office based out of Washington DC. She deliberately flew to and took part in demonstrations against a democratically elected government. Again if Chinese or Russian officials did the same during Black Lives Matter 2020 or Jan 6th 2021 I think it would be negatively recieved. I understand you need to pretend that’s not true so you don’t have to admit to being wrong.
Added to that, the person Victoria Nuland picked to be prime minister in the phone call about the the 3 named opposition leaders became prime minister that very same month in an UNELECTED designation by an alliance of far right parties like Svoboda. Svoboda was specifically tied to the shootings in the square on February 20th. 7 days later they were helping choose the US picked prime minister. This wasn’t some magical event of peace, it was clearly deeply effected by US interests and has led to a decade of violence in the country. I’m sorry to hear you enjoy people dying for self righteousness, but here at hexbear we just want senseless violence to end.
I wonder how American would act if Chinese leaders showed up at protests for Black Lives Matters protests, or Russian leaders showed up for Jan 6th protests?
Victoria Nuland showed up to the protests, and she has multiple emails that basically call it a coup.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957.amp
Also 2 weeks later was the Maidan Sniper incident that has overwhelmingly evidence of a false flag operated by the Ukrainian far right.
I know it’s hard to see that the world isnt Disney level “good vs evil”. It’s actually a little more complicated
Have you ever heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis? Why did America freak out that Cuba was going to get missiles from the Soviet Union? What did the Soviet Union choose to do to stop the crisis? Could it be that it is entirely normal for a nation to not want an adversary’s missiles on their border? Has there been multiple examples of conflicts stemming from this issue all over the globe? Have you ever asked yourself a question about how conflicts start, and if other nations have ever behaved similarly?
The amount of shitting and wiping I d imagine you’d have to do, hemorrhoids would likely be unbearable overtime