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@Db0

My summary of your comment is an accurate paraphrase of what you said. You said, "it grinds my gears when I hear [tankies] prattle on about all the statistically significant material improvements the life of the people received." How else am I supposed to interpret that other than you not liking debating "tankies" even if they provide statistical evidence?

@Db0

So, when you're debating with "tankies," you don't like it when they use statistical evidence to support their position, you know, what any honest person who is debating with someone would do? From this, it doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with the "tankies" arguments. The problem seems to be that you just don't like debating with "tankies," even if they debate honestly.

@tiredturtle

There is no joke. I don't see why Stalin would be an untrustworthy authority on communist ideology. Based on the books I've read of his, he seems to be very trustworthy in his analysis and explanation of the ideology of communism and socialism.

@tiredturtle

I see no reason why Stalin would be an untrustworthy authority on communist ideology.

@tiredturtle @Binette

No. What many Marxist-Leninists, at least, don't like about Trotskyist is their extremely flawed ideology.

I recommend you read this book that further explains the problems with Trotskyism: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/11/_19.htm

@Binette

I'm not in Quebec, but there is a group called "Parti communiste du Québec (PCQ)," which is a Marxist-Leninist party.

@Binette

To make it simple, here are 2 things that are wrong with Trotskyists:
#Socialism #Communism #Marxism #Leninism #Trotskyism

@Cowbee @Binette

Me seeing other Communists giving out literature: 😃

Me after realizing that they're a part of the RCP (a.k.a Revolutionary Communist Party, a.k.a Trotskyists): 😩

#Socialism #Communism #Trotskyism #Marxism #Leninism #MarxismLeninism

@Aatube @yogthos @NoiseColor

[Saying that there's no such thing as a state that's more authoritarian or less authoritarian is denying reality.]

To clarify, that's not what I said. I said that there is no such thing as a non-authoritarian state because states are authoritarian by nature, not that there aren't varying degrees of the level of authoritarianism among different states. America is in many ways less authoritarian than the USSR, but it's still authoritarian nonetheless.

@jeremy_list @NoiseColor @yogthos

[immediate transition is not only possible in theory but actually has some precedent]

– How is it possible in theory, and what precedent does it have?

[expecting a transitional state to actually continue the transition is even less rational than expecting Jesus to show up and start helping]

Why?

@Aatube @yogthos @NoiseColor

I'm not at all trying to suggest that Stalinist Russia was more free than modern-day America, just that many people think of America as a free country when it's actually closer to Stalinist Russia than they'd care to recognize.

@Aatube @yogthos @NoiseColor

3/3 ...in technology) and all while having the largest prison population in the entire world, possibly being larger than the amount of prisoners in labor camps under Stalin (again, it's hard to compare since records from that era from the Soviet Union are lacking).