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Marxist-Leninist ☭

Interested in Marxism-Leninism? Check out my “Read Theory, Darn it!” introductory reading list!

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  • It’s a sentence I made, just because the PRC agrees with describing themselves that way doesn’t mean I’m not adding to meaningful conversation. When you declare that China is a cocktail of Capitalism and Socialism, what does that actually mean? It seemed like your comment was more about not analyzing China’s economy than coming up with a coherent and consistent answer, which is what I pushed forward.

    Basically, Capitalism and Socialism are descriptors of overall systems, not portions of an economy, so calling a system a cocktail of each doesn’t make too much sense and adds confusion more than clarity.



  • Vaush has to, by virtue of his profession, at least pretend to know what he’s talking about with Marxism, so it can seem convincing. The issue is that it is abundantly clear every time he makes a mistake to anyone who takes theory seriously, yet that isn’t Vaush’s target audience, who are mainly western liberals and occasionally pro-US Anarchists.

    That’s why I recommend reading theory, the only way to be 100% sure is to go the source.



  • The USSR didn’t “do repression and violence to speed up Communism,” they had a successful revolution and established Socialism. By all accounts it was quite successful overall, but we can learn from where they erred and adapt for the future.

    The only ones who believe the Soviet Union wasn’t Socialist are generally Western Trots or liberals/Anarchists who already don’t want the form of society Marxists want, which is a government that publicly owns its large and key industries and gradually folds in the new firms that grow to that level until the entire economy is publicly owned.




  • One of the worst issues is when he depicts AES as “not real Socialism” because they contain contradictions, when Dialectical Materialism shows that all systems contain contradictions and must resolve them, that doesn’t mean they aren’t that system. Ie, Capitalist states contain public ownership, which is a contradiction but does not define the system.

    One of the recent and larger-scale issues was when he tried to explain Lenin advocated voting Socialism into existence.

    I don’t make it a point to hate-watch sex offenders that do the work of the US state department.


  • The vast majority of them, to be honest. He has no grasp of Dialectical and Historical Materialism, has no knowledge of AES, and horrendously distorts Lenin.

    He’s a liberal that cosplays an Anarchist and pretends to have beyond a Wikipedia understanding of Marxism.

    That’s, of course, ignoring that he’s a chaser, pedophile, sex offender.


  • Fantastic question! The answer is no, not necessarily. The PRC is Socialist, and never had a true “Capitalist” phase. It currently has a Socialist Market Economy, but never really had a stage dominated entirely by Capitalism.

    There are also reversions. Russia reverted to Capitalism, and Germany almost became Communist, but was stopped by the Nazi Party coming to power.

    However, all of that being said, history does generally progress alongside technological development, and the Mode of Production follows suit.



  • East Germany was the side with practically no industry, and the Soviets de-Nazified it and made it pay reparations, as the Soviet Union, unlike the US, emerged from the war with massive reconstruction costs and tens of millions of lives lost. It was not in a position to offer the same kind of support the US gave to West Germany, it had to build itself up first and then help out more. Later on, the DDR was much better and support increased.

    In addition, the DDR provided free, high quality education, while the West offered higher pay, meaning a lot of educated workers could get the “best of both worlds” by getting educated in East Germany and defecting to the West.

    The East had a good system, but it was bogged down by sitiational problems.