AverageWestoid

Honestly it helps a lot that deepseek is open source ngl.

"oMg WhO aRe We, A bUnCh Of AsIaNs?"

God, America is going to need at least a century of cultural revolution to undo it's reactionary culture and history.

But like, why, do they have like no critical thinking skills?

1. AI is only going to intensity the contradictions of capitalism as how is a prole supposed to purchase the goods horded by capital if they have no capital?

2. Tbh they'll try to do this and will fail inevitably, Russia tried this with the Okhrana and even at that organisations height it did little to stop the growth of socialism in the Russian empire, similarly it's not going to stop the growth of socialism in the west, conversely systematic surpression of socialist groups could actually legitimise them as a real oppositional force in the eyes of the western Proletariat.

3. Lol, talking about a pipedream lol, America can't even defeat Iran what fucking chance are they going to have against china?

4. Lol, I know these are shit posts but still, funny.

5. And that's clearly going to work on a population that is literally starving to death, the Russian orthodox church tried the same thing in 1917, and all It led to was there pedodunge...I mean churches to get burnt down.

Honestly, no, I'm not fearful that I may die, for is it better to die fighting for something right than rot away slaving away for parasites that DO NOT give a shit about you?

Honestly In the past it was way worse.

Really the western propaganda clown car is really starting to come a part at the semes, like seriously it's gotten to the point that in mainstream subreddits you can regularly see people glazing china for instance, and in almost all remotely political subreddits it's basically just people dunking on the west 24/7.

There's still a strong grasp of capitalist thought over websites such as Reddit for sure, but it is becoming more and more obvious that the western propaganda system is failing and more and more people are starting to wake up from the stupor of liberalism and whatever flavour of conservstism is in vogue at the moment.

I think it should be noted that 60k of that membership emerged like, only 5 years ago, so it is rapidly growing, and probably will continue to do so.

For sure, really the whole "controlled opposition" narrative is just western propaganda to demonise non-western aligned opposition within Eastern European countries to be honest (the west utilised similar tactics against the Ukrainian Communist Party before Euromaidan for instance, as in they where controlled by le evil orks.) but that still doesn't take away the fact that the KPRF and a lot of communist groups in the former USSR have or had highly social reactionary positions.

The origins of this can largely be traced back to the collapse of the USSR, when the Union collapsed communists in eastern Europe took on extremely hardline positions, while this did effectively obliterate revisionists in eastern Europe, it also led to many groups to embrace the social reactionary positions as positive rather than falling into the 30% of things Stalin fucked up on.

In many ways this harmed the formation of socialist opposition within many countries, as marginalised sections of the Proletariat, instead of rallying around the communist party, where forced to instead align themselves with the liberals.

This also acted as a excellent tool for western propaganda, as many anti-western states in eastern Europe, such as Ukraine (up until Euromaidan.) Belarus, and Russia, often embraced highly conservative and reactionary cultural traditions, which in turn made it easier for the west to delegitimise socialist groups in eastern Europe.

In the modern day, most socialist groups in eastern Europe have been either destroyed, coopted, or forced underground, with really only a few nations, such as Belarus and Russia, having significant socialist formations within there countries.

And, well it's a bit of a tangent but let's talk about why the liberal western aligned opposition failed in Belarus and Russia.

In 2020, there where significant attempts at colour revolution within both Belarus and Russia, largely spurred on by legitimate grievances the people had with both governments (well, more so Russia, But still.) these protests seemed at the time to be a potential sign of the collapse of these two countries respective governments.

Why did these colour revolutions fail, well, it was due to a few reasons, in Russia it was largely due to the failure of the liberal opposition to monopolise the protests, with the KPRF, LDPR (basically the nazi party but russian.) and a Just Russia effectively jumping on the bandwagon of the protests at the time, which in turn prevented the liberal opposition from effectively taking control over the protests.

In Belarus, it was largely due to a lack of legitimate grievances outside of the Belarusians governments suppression of Marginalised groups, while cultural issues such as gay rights are something all socialists should support, they themselves are not a sufficient enough concern for a majority of the population to act as a initial foundation for a revolution, this is why we, as communists, embrace class struggle over that of social struggle, but that's besides the point, also when I mean lack of greivences, I largely mean the fact that Belarus largely maintained it's economic structure from the days of the USSR, which notably means it is far less corrupt than in comparison to most eastern European countries, and also is fairly industrious, with Belarus playing a fairly important part in supply the russian military with munitions for the war in Ukraine.

Also obviously there was other reasons, the attempted colour revolutions in Belarus and Russia wasn't exactly the CIA's finest hour, but still.

Honestly the CPRF is one of the greatest divides in opinion I have seen from our comrades on Reddit (storefront) and lemmygrad.

The truth, as usual, largely lies somewhere between the two extremes of "controlled opposition" and "based Bolsheviks 2.0"

The CPRF is hands down one of the single largest communist parties within Europe, holding around 160,000 members to this day.

It is also one of the most rapidly growing communist parties in Europe, with 1/3 of its members having joined the party in the last five years.

Most of the new members themselves are also relatively young (below the age of 30 in most cases.) which will need to be discussed in a bit so remember that.

The CPRF's political wings can roughly be split into two cliques, the Zyuganov clique, and the Rashkin clique.

Zyuganov's clique is largely the clique responsible for the CPRF'S social-reactionary position, as they actively reject social liberation of marginalised sections of the Proletariat (aka LGBTQ+ people) and instead seek to synthesise with conservative establishments, like the Russian orthodox church, as an example.

The Rashkinite clique is more socially progressive in comparison to the Zyuganov clique, rejecting social-reactionaries m and instead upholding the orthodox social positions of Marxist-Leninism (e.g. the liberation of the Proletariat regardless of there marginalised status.)

While the Zyuganov clique still technically "rules" the party, the mass induction of youth members whom noticeably lack the social-reactionary bias of a lot of older members of the party has led to Zyuganov's clique to suffer a lot as they find themselves increasingly marginalised within the party.

(TL;Dr, Zyuganov's probably going to get removed as party head soon, probably even sooner after this ngl.)

Umm wtf

This is why healthcare shouldn't be treated as a business.

Oh boy things are going to get fun when the NHS is fully privatised.

UK proving itself as the canary in the coal mine for the west's future since 2008.

I'm not going to lie but this article/chart is a bit misleading.

For one many of the "Private" companies listed here are well, not private or "capitalist" (as much as you can get in china.) entities but either agricultural or Town-Worker cooperatives, so yeah.

And For two this is "Market Share" not the total amount of GDP (PPP really but westoids) for China, which obviously SOEs are going to provide less purely because they aren't engaged in the same level of stock trading private Chinese concerns are engaged with.

And for three, this ultimately changes nothing, SOEs will still control the commanding heights of the economy no matter what and hence private capital in china is still ultimately subject to that of the dictatorship of the Proletariat, so yeah.