Collatz_problem [comrade/them]

The truth is though that ultimately, politicians are gonna be malleable to those who are going to vote

No, they are not. A single donation from a billionaire would buy more press to get more voters from name recognition than a million working class supporters. And if the politician betrays his base, the most he can fear is losing reelection, and even this is not assured. If a politician goes against billionaires, he is going to be smeared, harassed and have his opposition funded. This ensures that the only politicians in any significant elections are already guaranteed to serve billionaires.

Liberalism has always been about freedom for property owners.

Yeah, communists don’t like it, when you attack socialist states, and will strike back.

And after capitalism is over - it will be time for getting rid of the state, and what will be needed for it, will be seen at the time. Maybe it will wither away voluntarily, maybe it will be smashed in an another revolution.

The socialist state is a necessity to survive against capitalist onslaught, and wanting to dismantle it before capitalism is crushed is suicidal behaviour. How would anarchists deal with the Entente intervention or Nazi Germany or USA?

I would gladly switch to anarchism if your revolution manages to win instead of being crushed by capitalists.

Kronstadt

Non-authoritarianly licking the boots of Tsarist generals.

Thinking of politics in terms of good guys and bad guys is kindergarten-level.

This is literally Budenny.

Consistency of an axiomatic system that contains arithmetic can be proven in this system if and only if it is inconsistent.

Americans are not flirting with Nazism. They dated it, married it and had many children with it.

Pelevin was satirizing 90s’ Russia and its emerging capitalist culture and his critiques still stand, because Putin’s Russia is just less fucked up version of 90s’ Russia. Trying to reduce his works to “satires of authoritarianism” is extreme cherry-picking.

https://www.lmfdb.org/ for people deep into analytic number theory rabbit hole.

Democrats won’t abandon norms and traditions, because they play a good cop to Republicans’ bad cop. They are all in one big club and you aren’t in it.

For first several months the war was extremely unpopular, but sanctions and discrimination against Russians did orders of magnitude more to make people think of the West as the enemy than the dumb state propaganda.

Unhinged bullshit like this did more to make people support Putin than any propaganda he could spit.

Crassus would be proud.

“Poors were allowed to escape before the rich, and it is unacceptable.”

“We care about your privacy. We absolutely hate it, but it counts as caring, doesn’t it?”