• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Things I hate were present where I live through half of USSR and then till now, and replaced things even scarier present since the revolution.

    Tell me it’s capitalism, mofo, I beg you.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        The USSR moved out of State Capitalism with the end of the NEP. It is technically correct that they had a State Capitalist economy, but they moved on to a traditional Socialist economy relatively early on.

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        3 days ago

        I fully agree. So when you are against capitalism, what is your alternative that doesn’t devolve into state capitalism?

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          That’s something you can write a book about.

          In my opinion it has to come from a bottom up movement, that puts emphasis on the sort of types of organization a socialist movement ultimately aims for.

          The Leninists tried to disconnect the means and the ends of the movement, using the tools of the bourgeoisie to try and build a new system, which failed.

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            2 days ago

            Marxist-Leninists did not “disconnect means and ends.” The goal of Marxism is liberation of the proletariat, the means of which being working towards Communism, a fully publicly owned, centrally planned world republic free of classes, the state, and money. Marxism-Leninism adds analysis of Imperialism, Capitalism as it spreads internationally (which was not developed yet in Marx’s time), as well as strategic advancements like Democratic Centralism and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination.

            Marx was not an Anarchist, he wanted full centralization and public ownership, not a horizontal network of Communes. Engels even argued against such a system in Anti-Dühring.