Yliaster

Yeah, authoritarian... no thanks.

Besides war, fascism is known for it's crackdown on opposing thought. Banning of factions like you said, is one red flag. He created a single-party state.

Then there's the suppression of opposition along with massacres in the Red Terror. Then you have the ''war communism'' he instated from 1918-1921:

The system has often been described as simple authoritarian control by the ruling and military castes to maintain power and control in the Soviet regions, rather than any coherent political ideology.

And this guy is lauded as an anti-imperialist figure?

I'm familiar with the horseshoe theory. I am not against being far-left.

But from my [limited] understanding of the figure, he did a u-turn on his policies the minute he came to power, and became the thing he was supposed to destroy [fascism, dictatorship] instead of actually applying communism/socialism the way it was intended (i.e. to liberate the working class from the social elites and restore the means of production back to them).

CMIIW.

I'm commenting on NK in general, not just what this article is talking about. NK is the capital of some of the worst human rights abuses, torture, lack of transparency and free press in the world. It's an authoritarian regime that controls its populace through fear and capital punishment.

It's not exactly ''goals'' as a country.

Just because we cannot currently categorize the output does not mean the thoughts exist in the supernatural plane.

You cannot assert they are material, either. It's about observation, though, not merely categorization.

This just means we likely won’t know everything, not that there is something we cannot know, period.

If you can't know everything, there's at least something(s) you can't know.

It does not. Matter continues to change. Water can boil and return to liquid over and over again. And because these processes are occurring, they could not have arisen from an infinite loop, because that would suggest infinity had passed for them to occur, which is impossible.

Brainwaves and activity are not thoughts. We cannot actually directly ''observe'' the thoughts themselves. We can't look at someone in a lab and be like, ''ah yes, he really wants to go play football right now'', that's not something we can observe.

How so? What stands beyond the possibility of knowing, if not the supernatural alone?

Human limitation, for one. We are not omniscient or omnipotent, nor will we ever be. We'll never have the full picture of the totality of reality, even if progress can be made. Our limitations are inherent to us, limitations in our mental ability, perception, senses, etc.

This doesn’t follow, though. The point isn’t for it to be completed. Infinity as a concept exists, even if we never reach it in reality, the capacity for always increasing does.

It follows necessarily. If it's not completed, no process or matter can arise. Because we know these processes/matters exist, they can't be coming from an infinite loop.

Square circles and married bachelors also exist as concepts.

There's really no good image-discovery social media platform like X/Insta. I've tried a few, and they either lack algos, or have negligible user base, either of which make them useless.

You believe the propaganda because you’re comfortable enough to not care to question it. But when things get bad, when quality of life is in the shitter these methods will not be that effective.

I mean just how bad does it have to get for people to wake up? Look at America, ICE, the anti-women, anti-trans, anti-gay policies he's pushing, deportations, etc.

Social media often spreads anti-capitalist messaging, even if it’s censored, simply due to people feeling the need for it due to capitalist decay.

Can you explain?

Eh?

Is China being used as an example of valid communism/socialism? Isn't Chinese Communism (i.e. the form practiced by the CCP) completely off?

leftist doesnt mean communist