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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stalinism wasn't counter-revolutionary?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is that in the meme? In my opinion, Stalin was counter-revolutionary to Marxism:

Thus, as Trotsky long ago foresaw, the successes of planned economy at home and the advances of the revolution abroad sharpened the internal contradictions of Soviet society, bringing them to explosive political expression against the totalitarian regime of the bureaucratic oligarchy that usurped power following the death of Lenin

But I don’t reject what he was trying to achieve, as I don’t reject what Xi is trying in China. Don’t let Perfect be the enemy of Good.

Achieving absolute perfection may be impossible; one should not let the struggle for perfection stand in the way of appreciating or executing on something that is imperfect but still of value.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're implying that more capitalism is progress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It can be. Capitalism as an economic system is efficient at raising industrial standards. Capitalism, as a tool for industrialization isn’t bad.

The problem with capitalism is that it strains social relations within the system by producing inequality of wealth distribution.

Technology-driven changes in production make new social forms possible, such that old social forms and classes become outmoded and displaced by new ones. Once, the dominant class were the land owning lords. But the new industrial system produced a new dominant class: the capitalists. source

Capitalism isn’t evil, it’s a tool. But the social relations capitalism creates is oppressive, and will be dismantled.