Only the Israelis can compete with this degree of utter delusion

Imperialism is a system of domination and hegemonic control, you cannot separate its "good" parts from its "bad" parts and take them in isolation. There is no "good" intervention from a global capitalist and imperialist superpower such as the US – it all ultimately serves the maintenance of the global capitalist order no matter how much they talk about freedom or human rights

Today I learned that over 90% of Chinese citizens own their house. And many pay as little as 0.5% in property taxes. This country is ass.

I think one of the most frustrating things about talking to ultras is that they never really grapple with why they keep "losing" over and over and over again. Even calling them "losers" is generous because they were never really in the game.

All of their projects have either never existed or when they did exist they quickly morphed into democratic centralism as was in the case of the USSR. They scream and cry revisionist, capitalist roader, deformed worker's state but never ask themselves why these changes happened in multiple countries.

Take the five remaining actually existing socialist countries. All five of these countries have implemented "market reforms" that are called revisionist by these groups of people. In the case of China, Vietnam, and Laos they have also integrated themselves into the international economy. DPRK and Cuba have also tried integrating themselves into the international economy and would if they could, but the US has refused to lift sanctions and actually punishes neutral countries like Mexico for trading with those countries. So all five of these countries have more or less followed the same path. Shouldn't that tell us something?

Even if they have the "correct" or more "pure" vision of socialism, what good is it if it's never actually been implemented? Why should we listen to these people when they can't produce results?

The five AES countries are not perfect but life continues to get better for all segments of society year after year after year. And many of the reasons why these countries aren't perfect is due to being historically colonized and undeveloped as a result. Xi has recently taken a more aggressive approach to ending rural poverty at the expense of pure economic GDP growth. A capitalist nation would not do this, even if the ruling party were socdems.

The only real argument these people have is "Read theory!" They never even say what "theory" in particular I should be reading. One of them recently told me I don't understand dialectical materialism.... really I think it's these people who don't understand DM. Socialism is a process, it cannot happen overnight, it is a gradual thing.

Imagine it's the feudal times and we're all liberals and there's a movement in our country to implement constitutional monarchy. But then some of us are like "Oh we can't support that because it's not a full dictatorship of the bourgeosie, the king still has some rights" and then they refused to support any liberal movements for centuries because it wasn't good enough. Wouldn't we all think they were incredibly stupid and just wasting time? It took capitalism centuries to be fully realized. Hopefully socialism will be faster but it's not going to be an overnight thing. I just wish these people would stop being dumb.

Israel has now backed off a lie it originally told.

It stated that the ambulances did not clearly identify themselvess or have their emergency lights on. This was a clear lie to hide the fact that a shallow grave of unarmed paramedics were slaughtered by the IDF. This goes to show that the official claims of "Hamas terrorists" in houses, under houses, in ambulances is just not true.

This seems to be the standard modus operandi of Israel (and their champions). They kill civilians and release a report claiming they were 1. Hamas members or 2. behaving in such a way that they were, with reasonable belief) Hamas.

It is only with proper due dilligence that these arguments collapase rapidly. This is an evolving case, but the NYT have actually shown - from the dead parademics chest - the actual event itself which is completely contrary to Israel's claims.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-acknowledges-incorrectly-claiming-that-gaza-ambulances-didnt-have-emergency-lights-on/

Wtf did china and Russia do in that time period that was worse than the us?

Even when they're saying the us did horrific things they have to slide in "oh but Russia and china are worse"

A very short Pamphlet talking about the difference in the bourgeois democratic government vs the beginning of a Soviet style democratic government. My only criticism would be how outdated this work is being from the Cold War 1940s. But other than that it's a good small theoretical works into the democratic topic. Hope everyone at some point gets a chance to read it.

Also he is referring to I$r@el

Source: GDF

Probably the beginning of where I've had disagreements with both lenin and other marxists on a topic. It's a very short collection of Lenin's and other marxist's opinions on religion. The Bolshevik party and policies where I've had disagreements. If anyone gets a chance to read this I welcome it. I'll let everyone have a chance to form their opinions