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You guys refuse to accept the Soviet Union as socialist, basically because of Cold War myths promoted by the Western media that it wasn't as "free" as the more private capitalist countries. How to you measure "freedom?" What country was more "free" than the USSR? Why did the U.S. government assasinate so many communists, if private capitalist countries were so much more free?
Yeah, I suppose that insisting on the autonomous political rule of the working class as a class, as opposed to the rule of the party-state, is just part of an arsenal of the borugeois media machine dissing out cold war propaganda.
I also suppose that arguing for workers' control at the point of production, and for a diffused social planning, as opposed to one-man management, the autonomy of the enterprise, and economic administration in the form of state planning, is also something which the bourgeois media frequently support.
I suppose that insisting on free assembly and for free creation of proletarian political organizations, apart from the state and the party which fused with it, is bourgeois.
I suppose that denouncing the imeperialist foreign policy, and a resultant destruction of any kind of proletarian internationalism, is bourgeois.
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You guys prefer the private capitalist countries, but yet you expect people to call you a "leftist" because you don't support the original interpretations of Marx created by Lenin, which was to have "dictatorship of the proletariat."
You are, on the other hand, a simpleton who cannot grasp the concrete reasons why communists opposed the Soviet Union, which is probably the reason why you are drawn to create such ridiculous statements like the one of support for "provate capitalism", rationalizing this lack of ability to understand the real issues.
Also, I'd prefer to develop my understanding from the source itself - Marx, and not whichever interpretation, especially ones which are generalized as a universal road to socialism, but were in practice a result of historical contingencies of a particular time and space.
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I'm sure it would be way more organized and successful if it was revolution against a more developed, capitalist society.
It's reasonable to assume that if workers' in the heavily industrialized countries smashed their respective bourgeois state and conquered political power
as a class, things might have been much different, yes.
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And I'm, sorry, but I refuse to embrace the private capitalist systems over the one that was implemented in the USSR. I think that as a communist, that is like shooting yourself in the foot. Have a nice day.
No one here embraces the "private capitalist systems". Again, this is a classic straw man argument, and moreover, it's a false dillemma, positing the need to support one imperialist camp over another.