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2018-05-05 02:56:29 UTC  

@Deleted User Then why are private businesses so prominent in china? There are over 40 million privately owned businesses there, and despite china's actions, their private businesses are thriving much more than that of state businesses: https://itif.org/publications/2016/11/29/despite-china-favoring-state-owned-enterprises-its-private-companies-are

2018-05-05 02:58:54 UTC  

@DA GOMMIE JOO Not entirely accurate. According to Bukharin, "State Capitalism" is when all sectors of production and important social institutions fall under state management. He identified it as a particular stage of capitalist development. Lenin also wrote about state capitalism. Of course the concept dates back to the First International. There are various definitions, many of which are non-Marxist.

2018-05-05 03:00:14 UTC  

Lenin allowed for capitalism to thrive in the USSR, despite claiming that he was a marxist, of course, lenin also nearly caused the collapse of the USSR, which is partially why stalin had to remove most of lenin's policies, because if the USSR kept them, it would have collapsed.

2018-05-05 03:01:50 UTC  

Kind of ironic that people call marxism marxist leninism even though lenin was hardly a marxist at all, and favored capitalism a lot.

2018-05-05 03:02:22 UTC  

the NEP was actually pretty successful
it was the command economy under trotsky that did a lot of damage

2018-05-05 03:02:40 UTC  

@Deleted User He introduced the New Economic Policy as an expedient measure given the material conditions. It was necessary at the time as not only was the country a pre-capitalist semi-feudal backwater, but it had just finished undergoing it's "War Communism" phase.

2018-05-05 03:02:53 UTC  

@DA GOMMIE JOO#7269 >The capitalist economy did better than the communist economy
Really makes you think.

2018-05-05 03:03:06 UTC  

Also, only someone that knows little about Marxist theory would claim that Lenin wasn't a Marxist. He was an Orthodox Marxist until his death.

2018-05-05 03:03:30 UTC  

the NEP wasn't capitalist
it was more of a demsoc economy

2018-05-05 03:03:39 UTC  

kind of like what cuba has

2018-05-05 03:03:49 UTC  

@Deleted User What warcommunism? The civil war ended about a decade before the NEP was put into place, even if people were starving still, the NEP did nothing to help out in that, all it did was allow capitalism to thrive.

2018-05-05 03:03:58 UTC  

@DA GOMMIE JOO#7269 And dem socs are capitalist.

2018-05-05 03:04:11 UTC  

"dem socs are capitalist"
no you're thinking of socdems

2018-05-05 03:04:18 UTC  

What's the difference?

2018-05-05 03:04:42 UTC  

social democracy is declawed capitalism
demsoc has some actual socialism in it

2018-05-05 03:05:42 UTC  

Wait what? The countries today that claim to be democratic socialists are capitalist, bernie sanders, the walking corpse is a dem soc and he is a capitalist.... care to elaborate?

2018-05-05 03:06:26 UTC  

@Deleted User I stand by what I say, unless you have proof that he was actually a marxist, then I will continue to do so.

2018-05-05 03:06:44 UTC  

@Deleted User It was a market-oriented policy which included monetary reform and the introduction of foreign capital. "War Communism" was the system which existed from 1918 until the year 1921. The NEP was implemented in March of that same year.

2018-05-05 03:06:48 UTC  

Bernie shouldn't have described himself as a democratic socialist

2018-05-05 03:06:56 UTC  

yeah he really isn't one

2018-05-05 03:07:12 UTC  

@Deleted User You obviously know very little about Soviet history.

2018-05-05 03:07:19 UTC  

@Deleted User So it wasn't present at all during war communism, thank you for confirming that.

2018-05-05 03:07:27 UTC  

And the Scandinavian countries call themselves social democracies

2018-05-05 03:07:34 UTC  

@buyXRBpls Isn't that a no true scotsman though?

2018-05-05 03:08:25 UTC  

@buyXRBpls I mean, how do you really know that demsocs aren't equivalent to socdems?

2018-05-05 03:08:35 UTC  

@Deleted User You claimed the NEP was introduced a decade after the Civil War ended. That's false. The Russian Civil War lasted from 1917 to 1922.

2018-05-05 03:08:51 UTC  

it's like thinking hitler was actually a socialist just because he called himself one

2018-05-05 03:09:23 UTC  

@🖤 Limeboo 🖤 Well we know that he wasn't because of the evidence that was presented, (And the fact that he didn't actually call himself a marxist socialist).

2018-05-05 03:09:29 UTC  

Your historiography is severely lacking.

2018-05-05 03:09:37 UTC  

What evidence is there that these countries aren't socdems?

2018-05-05 03:10:25 UTC  

@Deleted User soc dems want a welfare state to reduce the income equality that comes with capitalism while dem socs want to transition from capitalism to socialism through election

2018-05-05 03:10:32 UTC  

@Deleted User I may have been wrong in my statement that the civil war ended a decade before, but it still stands that NEP was never a measure to help war communism, and was just the introduction of capitalism back into russia, at this point, you really are nit picking.

2018-05-05 03:12:12 UTC  

@buyXRBpls But, that never really happens does it? There has never been in an instance where what you call dem socs have turned a country marxist socialist through elections, instead they became identical to that of soc dems, so really, what difference is there in the end?

2018-05-05 03:13:23 UTC  

You are right that they usually become soc dems but there is a difference

2018-05-05 03:13:28 UTC  

@Deleted User That's wrong. War Communism left the economy in near-ruin. The NEP was implemented as a direct result of the poor shape the economy was in. It was specifically designed to boost the economy.

2018-05-05 03:13:34 UTC  

@buyXRBpls Not really.

2018-05-05 03:14:07 UTC  

I am not "nit-picking" anything. I'm stating facts.

2018-05-05 03:14:16 UTC  

Where are yours?

2018-05-05 03:14:20 UTC  

@Deleted User So war communism failed spectacularly, and lenin introduced capitalism because he thought it would help the country even though he fought a civil war to rid the country of capitalism..... really makes you think.

2018-05-05 03:14:34 UTC  

@Deleted User What kind of argument was that?

2018-05-05 03:14:43 UTC  

@buyXRBpls What difference is there?