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Socialism and Communism historically have been defined multiple different ways by different people in different areas at different times. Marx used the terms interchangably. What we typically use now for clarity's sake is that Socialism is the stage of society that involves moving towards "Communism", where Communism is the classless and stateless society where all of every person's necessities are provided for.

From Critique of the Gotha Programme by Marx:

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

ive personally really enjoyed seeing all of your contributions and i feel like you are genuinely trying to make this site a nicer place. idk what went down but id be sad to see you go

it'll probably be good to take a break for bit, which is always nice in its own way. this should be a place where you enjoy spending your time and if that's not happening you should be doing those things instead

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Every time i see anything to do with NATO i think about the fact that Libya had a higher standard of living than the Netherlands before NATO and open air slave markets after NATO.

whole thing reeks of weird op ngl

1. We are officially a left-unity community. Anarchists and Marxist-Leninists etc. all welcome, but we don't tolerate right-wing/liberal ideology that contributes to the suffering of the exploited workers of the world.

2. It's more so a place for leftists to hang out and chat and spread news/content. A bit of both ig.

3. The people calling us tankies and nazis simultaneously are mostly doing so out of a disingenuous liberal attempt to position anybody to the left of them as being on the right of them, while they are the truly enlightened ones. The shitposting is only ever a response to people who are being disingenuous with their arguments and refusing to have genuine discourse.

neoliberalism is a function of capitalism's contradiction of requiring constant exponential growth. in an infinite timeline neoliberalism will sadly completely consume any semblance of "social democracy", and you can already see even the classic european social democracies are beginning to eat away at and privatize their welfare states.

other people are also pointing out unequal exchange, which is a critical concept to factor into the equation when trying to understand where the wealth of the european social democracies come from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjLmYCfKU7o this video is a really good short primer on the topic!

im not an expert in political economy, but if you read the article he goes into a lot of specific reasons why china is still in a great position in regards to the future, although it will take responsible leadership that pushes back against mainstream neoclassical economics.

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didnt mean to come at you in any way btw i just had a visceral reaction to the site (and most factcheck sites tbh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9ICFDk8Js

this guy doesn't even support china's policy and he will debunk all of this shit for you