No you did not.

Why didn’t you reply to my comment if you wanted a response? You didn’t even @ me when namedropping, like you’re hiding.

Your first source is an opinion piece saying African countries need to be wary of taking on debt they can’t pay back, without offering numbers. No evidence of debt entrapment, just loans.

Your second source just talks about the lack of transparency of one specific loan.

Neither proves China to be intentionally sinking African countries into debt, which is why I asked for sources.

Meanwhile, China has been waiving loans, and many loans are interest free as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

The US and other Western countries have stolen trillions from African Countries.

You need to meaningfully prove your statements, otherwise you’re just a western chauvanist.

Because historically the revolutionary forces (the one toppling the bourgeoisie) are extremely shitty governors (just continuing mass murdering & plundering which kinda makes sense if you think how & what they have been through).

Historically this is false 👍

The best way is reading the text I linked over it, which includes proof, analysis, and far more information than I can put in a single comment.

However, the extreme shorthand, is that competition results in monopoly, and monopoly seeks new international sources of raw materials and labor that is cheaper, using predatory loans and exporting industrial Capital directly.

The US, for example, has huge influence over the IMF, and makes the bulk of its value by producing in the Global South and lobbying to keep wages low.

That sure is a lot of stuff to read and i bet its dry lecture.

It isn’t, haha. Pretty easy to read!

To be honest, i won’t start looking into them, so thus far you have me. Maybe it’s ignorant but Lenin, for me, goes in the same pot as Stalin and Mao and the baddest of them all from Austria.

Bold claims for someone who refuses to even look at the text, let alone read it. Additionally, equating the Communists to the Nazis is in fact Nazi Apologia.

I don’t know if there are good ideas in their writings/ methods/ ideologies…what i know is that these are people who abused their power. They ordered people killed or at least restrained who wouldn’t comply to them…so i don’t know if their works and deeds are a thing to build upon.

Do you know that? You evidently don’t read, so where do your ideas come from? Imagination?

I not very educated on the matter but i’d think that “Post-growth” in capitalism maybe is a solution or at least a way to a solution?

What on Earth is “post-growth Capitalism?” Where did you pull that from, and why do you already think it capable of being a solution?

Capitalism sucks, yeah. They steal from you, yeah. Thing is that this happens in every system as long as humans are involved. So maybe we as a hole have to go through somekind of capitalistic-cataclysm, which i don’t want for me or my kids, but has to happen none the less to come up with something neither Marx & Co. or capitalists envisioned as of yet.

How, exactly, are people “stolen from” in Socialism? You don’t know what you’re talking about, but you sure do have strong opinions about it.

So you consider North Korea or Eritrea to be better then the US? Seriously?

Within the context of the world? Yes.

Can you proof China is not debt traping poor countries?

So you don’t have any proof, you just said it because if the US is bad, other countries must be bad. That’s western-chauvanism at its finest.

It is very easy to call the US the worst country, when you ignore the bad other countries commit.

It’d be nice if you could provide any proof for your claims.

Juche is basically Marxism-Leninism, but with a focus on self-reliance.

Excellent thread. Even suggesting Lenin has good ideas can get you immediate ire, because what he wrote is accurate and practicible.

For real, especially trying to get across Lenin’s analysis of Imperialism, or the necessity of Revolution, both of which are far touchier subjects than “Marx good” on the Fediverse.

Marx has been blunted and made tame and by those who haven’t read him.

Depends on the audience. It’s polarizing, hence the downvotes as well.

Hexbear and Lemmygrad are the two explicitly Communist instances, and Lemmy.ml has Marxist-Leninist admins (though apparently they claim .ml is because it’s cheap, not for Marxism-Leninism).

This meme isn’t saying Socialism will not prevail. Rather, it’s saying that even though Socialists can’t individually beat Capitalism right now, as Capitalism decays Socialists increase in number and Capitalists weaken in strength, making Socialist victory more probable over time.

It isn’t feasible, period, until Socialism is achieved, which requires a smashing of the bourgeois state and a replacement with a democratic worker-government.

Thanks for the insight!

I’m a normal, healthy Communist, thank you very much

It’s almost like I’m a Communist or something.

Stay mad.

No, you’re a leach that seeks to endlessly profit off of once-created Value. You aren’t bettering anyone’s lives, you extort them based on their need of shelter. The minor maintenance you do does not entitle you to the vast rent you extract.

Many red fash support the states of North Korea, Russia, China, etc.

“Red-fash” isn’t a thing, except perhaps for PatSocs and MAGA Communists, like the aforementioned American Communist Party. There are Marxists, and Marxists generally defend AES. There are no Marxists who support Russia except in its anti-NATO stance.

Additionally, this doesn’t answer my question. What specifically makes a government authouritarian?

Ofc “real commies” would never support any state.

Are Marx, Engels, and Lenin not “real commies?” I suggest reading The State and Revolution, it’s around 25% Marx and Engels quotes and goes over the Marxist Theory of the State. Specifically, the Marxist position is that the State can’t be abolished overnight, so we must smash the Capitalist state and replace it with a more democratic worker-state that will itself work out contradictions, transitioning from a policing of people to an administration of things, a state-as-not-a-state.

Most identify as anarchists, nihilists, etc. in order to avoid ideology/terminology that’s largely been recuperated by authoritarianism.

Ah, that’s why you didn’t answer the authoritarian question and reject the Marxist analysis of the State, you’re an Anarchist and are trying to claim full ownership of the word “Communism” and reject all of Marxism itself. I suggest reading Marxist theory, not just Goldman and Kropotkin.

Called it.

Good to hear! I’m almost through Marxism and the National Question, so Mao’s texts are next before Org theory. Anything else you recommend adding to my reading list? I plan on reading Fanon, Feinberg, Losurdo, and other authors.