I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    4 years ago

    But these examples end in military defeat, and Socialist states have not suffered collapses due to military defeats but instead fought off military threats long term.

    • CoralMarks [he/him]
      1·
      4 years ago

      True, but not because of how they were organized, but because they were severely outnumbered.

      • ferristriangle [he/him]
        2·
        4 years ago

        But what you're calling a federation of autonomous zones fulfills exactly the same role and functions that Marxists call a proletarian state. You're just using a different name.

        When I submitted arguments like these to the most rabid anti-authoritarians, the only answer they were able to give me was the following: Yes, that's true, but there it is not the case of authority which we confer on our delegates, but of a commission entrusted! These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world.

        Frederick Engles, On Authority (1872)