Is Joe Biden the American Brezhnev? | Ben Judah
www.theguardian.com
Leaders in the late Soviet Union wilfully ignored the need for structural reform. The Democratic contender should take note, says author Ben Judah

It still has to do the obligatory "of course the USSR's politics were totalitarian and evil and the US's politics are open and free" bullshit, but kudos to this guy for calling Biden the leader of a nation in rapid decline on March 6th.

  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    There were obviously no free and fair elections in the USSR.

    Guardian looking at gerry mandered maps, voting machines that have never, ever matched with exit polls, the fact Presidential candidacy is closed to non billionaires, voters purged off rolls, the captured state of the RNC and the DNC (who get to decide who can and cannot run), the role of the billionaire Murdoch press in elections, the fact Princeton and Harvard consider the US an oligarchy and finally the fact most senators are millionaires

    Very free, very fair and democratic

    :side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:

      • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        During the era of US imperialism as US capital extended all across the globe it could afford to provide crumbs from imperialism to financially ensure its citizens saw the bettering of their lives every year. With the material conditions of its people in abundance it allowed some form of political freedom. Since the neoliberal era and the worsening of living standards each year as US imperialism dies so too will die out the political freedoms that were allowed. And even then you still can't run as a candidate if you're a Communist in California

        Democracy is not "letting people have their say". It is a form of state.

        People forget that the word "Democracy" arose as a word to describe the slave state of athens.

        Women and Slaves did not have a vote... and no seriously thinking person during that period believed that slaves, which were property, deserved one.

        The State arose due to the antagonistic nature of classes and the partition of property.

        Actual democracy is a class question and always has been. Under current US "democracy" this franchise does not extend to the working class and no reasonably thinking person should think so.