but a revolution is doomed to fail without popular support

Which is why almost all of them ultimately collapsed. East Germany famously got to a point where they were spending more money on the Secret Police than on the military.

the purpose of Marxism-Leninism is to abolish classes

Todays home work assignment is to look up “Defacto and Dejure”

Why are you going through old comments of mine to reply to?

Don’t flatter yourself. You churn out comments at an incredible rate and you’re on half the Posts I look at.

Communist parties derive their power from popular support from the working classes

Political power flows from the barrel of a gun, not popular support. But of course strict control of News, Education, public discourse, and suppression of criticism really helps with the popular support.

State violence is used against fascists, sabateurs, capitalists, and landlords

as well as the workers

why there was such dramatic improvements

A phenomena that has occurred in plenty of other countries

studied Marxism and taught it in universities, and more

Priests, much like Bolshevik party officials, exist to maintain the system of control over the working class on behalf of their rulers and religion is widely taught in universities just like Marxist-Leninism was.

Marx has some interesting things to say, he should definitely be required reading, but Marxists treat Das Kapital like Christians treat the Bible.

I usually start people on the COINTELPRO entry on Wikipedia unless I’m explaining to someone that they’re using the word “Anarchy” as a synonym for chaos because of a concerted effort by the authorities to depict anarchists as violent and out of control criminals.

My point being that actual CIA propaganda was a godsend to MLs. They can use the existence of it to deny anything bad about their movement to outsiders and while avoiding any painful self-reflection of their own failures. While somehow always refusing to accept that the USSR and other ostensibly socialists countries or countries opposed to the west would ever themselves engage in similar propaganda efforts.

Having cute picnics is called “being homeless”? Those are the nicest cleanest clothes I’ve ever seen homeless people war. Also that picnic is the most and nicest food I’ve ever seen homeless people carry around.

This is called “actually living”

You can’t explain why standards of life have been massively boosted in actually existing socialist countries

You can’t explain why the same thing happened in Capitalist countries and doesn’t appear unique to “socialism”.

How is it possible that there are only “good dictators” in communist countries?

Most outright dictators in communist countries were shitheads. After Stalin died, the USSR had the secret speech. After Mao died, the Chinese communist party made it a high priority to prevent any one person from ever gaining that much power again (which fell apart with Xi Jinping). Ceaușescu was more interested in a life of luxury than in the working class. Most communist countries at most times had a political elite that ruled, not an individual with singular authority over the nation.

Not every communist is Marxist-Leninist/Bolshevik. Some communists support the working class for example.

Keep building that strawman and knocking it down.

Like clockwork, here’s one now. And he plays a reverse card like this is Uno and not an intellectual exchange.

“CIA propaganda” is the other ML buzzword that approximates conservatives alleging “woke” and they’re always baffled that people outside their echo chamber don’t immediately concede the point. Like they just made the first move in a game of chess and legitimately think it’s checkmate.

I see him defending modern day Russia all over the Fediverse while also denying it

because of its practical success

That’s like a doctor saying that shooting a patient in the head was a success because they don’t have headaches anymore.

a mass party chosen by the working claases

a party that seized control and maintained it’s grip on power with violence against the working class

Yes

Typically .ml and hexbear are considered the insufferable ones

I think most fans would recognize Han Solo’s blaster at first glance.

Another example is Haute Cuisine. Expensive food for the upper classes.

That problem is that not all communists were made equal. I’ve heard plenty of communists talk that I can respect but MLs aren’t the ones. Bolsheviks always managed to get their needs especially met and before anyone elses needs.

Some communists, not all communists.

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