"Reformist social democratic version of socialism" is such an incoherent nonsensical thing to say after 1917, wtf do western faux-intellectuals mean when they say this shit, cause more often than not judging by context they seem to referring to Keynesianism and that always has me going :jesse-wtf:

Also lefties in the west need to get the difference between defeat and failure, the murder of a million communist Indonesians is not a "failure of an alternative" it's a military defeat, same with Chile, same with the Central American socialist experiments, same with the Cuban blockade, same with the apocalyptic genocides visited on Vietnam and Korea

A bullet or a bomb doesn't give a damn about the theoretical underpinnings of your collectivized consumer goods sector

The problem with contemporary western marxism is that there's no theory of state violence, the dipshits have completely subsumed the liberal fantasy of civil government wholesale, just look at the bit about anarchists.... "Nor did the anarchists fill this void in developing an alternative, since their correct emphasis on democratic and nonstatist forms of decision-making largely failed to consider that the capitalist law of value can exist even under conditions of cooperative or collective production"

No you dumb motherfucker they "failed" to develop an alternative cause if they tried they would be murdered by one of the hundred alphabet agencies, which naturally leaves only harmless life-stylism and entryist activism as viable routes for alienated individuals living under said alphabet agency regime

Dipshit is squinting at a gnarled burned husk of a tree wondering what happened, while ignoring the forest fire still burning in the distance