MarkFisherprice [he/him,they/them]

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  • MarkFisherprice [he/him,they/them]toMain*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I don't think you can. Especially if you're looking at it from the outside. The material conditions influencing their decisions are infinitely complicated and obfuscated by time and distance and otherness.

    We can look back and analyse past events, and even judge their experiment as failed for x reasons, but at the end of the day all we can do is use the gathered data to inform and better our decisions going forward, not pass some sort of value judgement on the intentions of others.



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    At what point is a country "strictly-speaking" socialist?! Socialism is literally just the transitionary state between capitalism and communism. That's it.

    No, the workers don't have to own the means of production. No, the dictatorship of the proletariat doesn't have to be established. No, private property doesn't have to be abolished.

    Those are all great theories on how to progress towards communism, but they are just theories.

    Any state whose goal is communism and they are working towards that goal, in ANY manner, is socialist.That's the only litmus test. Even if you disagree with their hypothesise on how to go about it, they are still partaking in the socialist experiment.