Ok but socdem. And before you try to make a counter argument with [insert nordic country that is actually capitalist]
??? That is a novel take "let us split power with our oppressors, but Nordic countries don't do that"
they always call the ussr and china communist while they arent.
Yeah the USSR was and China is a transitionary socialist state lead by a communist party.
Get it together people.
Social democrats don't have a coherent answer for the imperialism question, which is the primary contradiction of this era. Social democrats still want to maintain hyperprofits as the expense of the global proletariat
As an ML though you could argue that states are downstream of the economic circumstances that force their development
No, I believe it is a democracy after taking time to research how their government works, after spending years believing they were some weird dictatorship due to ambient western propaganda
The viable alternative is to get rid of the "free"market
I’m also not really sure what a viable alternative is in a free market.
"Subjective value theory" as opposed to marx's "theory of value" which is sometimes mistakenly referred to as "labor theory of value" actually an earlier development that Marx refined into his own theory
Capitalism optimizes for exchange value not use value, also landlordism is a fuedal holdover that hurts capitalism, I would suggest reading the chapters in capital volume 3 on land rent
I mean, this is how businesses work in general. If you don’t buy their products/services, then they wouldn’t be able to continue providing them.
Of course people can simply refuse to buy housing and end up on the street, which isn't dangerous or criminalized or anything/s
Yes. I mean women who fought against segregation in the US.
https://youtu.be/akj4lrS1bFY?si=DK8UIcqGr-ET2GFi
While the US had Jim Crow the soviet union had made racial discrimation a serious crime. Listen to these fascists interrogate Mr. Robeson and think about the context of anti-segregation activism with regards to the space race.
"One of the USSRs biggest mistakes was giving Ayn Rand an education"