Absolutely terrible idea, why would you want Tsarism to persist?! If anything, saving Lenin and Sverdlov would have probably helped the early soviets.

Are you a genuine Gorby fan?

Yes, I do mean Reitter’s, and that’s why I’m curious, actually! I’ve only read Fowkes’, but Reitter’s reads much clearer from the snippets I’ve read. It’s structured differently, and I’m not sure if there are broader implications from the difference in translation, so I’m not sure if there is a “best.” Perhaps all of them will be worth reading, or a version that explains its differences in some areas beyond simple grammar and diction changes.

Interesting that they aren’t going with the newer translation. I wonder if that’s because of the prevalence of the Fowkes translation in academia, or because of issues with the new one.

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I believe so, though I haven’t yet read it. If nothing else, Furr presents a powerful and evidence-backed counter-narrative to much of Red Scare dogmatism, and in particular I appreciated his work on the Katyn Massacre and the fact that it was likely the Nazis that committed it, not the soviets, based on hard evidence. If you want to learn about Stalin in general, I believe the best work is Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend. I have only skimmed that one for now, though, I am still focusing on studying the core of Marxism over historical implementation of socialism.

Since when do Trump supporters like the soviet union and socialism?

Be sure to follow Politzer’s work with On Contradiction, as Politzer makes some errors regarding dialectics, contradiction, and the negation of the negation.

MLs tend to critically support the Russian Federation not because it’s a former socialist state, but because of the progressive role Russia plays in undermining the western empire. Russia has been an ally to Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran, and is in general interested in a world where the US Empire isn’t constantly boxxing it in and sanctioning it. This anti-imperialism isn’t necessarily because Russians are more morally pure or anything, but out of definite relations to imperialism.

I believe it! But having a unique name for each can be nice given how small the fediverse is, I imagine.

It’s actually cheaper to do single payer healthcare, but because profit rules all the empire does this.

This isn’t true, though. Trump just isn’t quite as hawkish on Russia as many liberals would like, but if he was actually compromised he would be lifting sanctions and wouldn’t be attacking Russian allies like Iran and Venezuela.

Oh shoot I forgot to carry the 1, it’s actually 1 trillion now. Exponential.

A few of us do that.

Actually, they upped it to 100 billion /s

People can demand it, but that isn’t how we could ever get it. The privatized healthcare system makes too much money and the left in the US Empire is only recently beginning to recover from the Red Scare and systematic dismantling by the state in the 20th century.

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The overwhelming majority of communists are the ones in real, existing organizations like the CPC.

Also important to note that the TRPF is largely about new machinery. Competition involves increasing technology, which raises the mass of commodities and usually the mass of profits, but lowers the rate of profit. This is only fought by further raising the mass of profits via expansion, which is why we get imperialism as capitalism grows.