The soviets executed him once he was found guilty. There was no pedophile island with all of the most well-connected people in the USSR, this is a sign of soviet accountability and justice.

Further, the evidence may not have been as airtight as the soviets thought. Beria was executed as a part of “de-Stalinization,” where Nikita Khrushchev was later found to have lied about the previous administration for his own political gain. Montefiore, famously someone who did not have access to the soviet archives, is the one true “source” of these claims. Montefiore is also a denier of Palestinian genocide and believes that Palestine is the source of all problems in the Middle East. He is also in the Epstein files.

In no case is this comparable to the Epstein files. It was one person acting alone, not a massive pedophile network, and said person was executed once found guilty. Even then, the claims of pedophilia come largely from one dedicated anti-communist propagandist that is in the Epstein files. At worst, this is an example of Khrushchev wielding political power to kill those that stood in his way, at best this is an example of genuine justice in the USSR, in neither case does this point to a systemic problem of pedophilia.

For clarity, OP is confusing Marxism-Leninism (Second Thought is a communist) for “democratic socialism.” Marxism-Leninism is democratic, but is nothing like the Nordic model.

You’re talking about workplace democracy, and are linking a video by a Marxist-Leninist to explain the communist conception of socialism as a transition to communism, as is found in Cuba, Vietnam, the PRC, etc. This isn’t a video by a socdem or demsoc.

Communism is democratic. In practice, what you call democratic socialism is either social democracy, ie not socialist at all, or reformist socialism, in which it isn’t at all successful in establishing socialism. Communist parties have successfully established socialism and democratic systems via revolutionary means.

The Nordic countries are the very same imperialist social democracies we have been talking about.

Welfare in nordic style social democracies is paid for via exploiting the global south, protecting capitalist superprofits while also throwing the domestic working classes a bone in the form of free healthcare and other nice things. Welfare isn’t fascist, it’s possible to provide good welfare without relying on imperialism, you just have to become socialist.

Specialized instances are the major draw for me. I almost never use /all sort because of that.

Yes.

The difference is that Vietnam was fighting against colonialism and to establish socialism, while Ukraine is being harvested for resources by the west and is used as a battering ram against geopolitical adversaries of the west, including by arming and empowering neo-Nazis against those in the Donbass region. This is just metaphysics, thinking you can take a very specific set of circumstances out of its necessary context and dogmatically apply it to every circumstance.

The entire west is using Ukraine as a battering ram to damage geopolitical enemies, while harvesting it for rare Earths and resources, saddling it with debt and disrupting peace talks. The west has no virtuous intent here.

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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.

Capital volume 2 goes over why this can’t solve the problem, specifically the sections on departments 1 and 2 (producing means of production and means of consumption).

I wouldn’t trust quizzes when it comes to political ideology. Quizzes try to take your latent beliefs and force them into categories, but these beliefs may be contradictory. Ideologies (in theory) attempt to proceed from a given baseline, and find correct answers given that baseline. For example, Marxism and its various tendencies all proceed from the acceptance of dialectical materialism, the scientific approach to socialism, and Marxist economics as the basis. A quiz may think someone is a Marxist, even if they don’t actually agree with any of those, assuming they have similar policy preferences.

It’s very hard to argue that Iran still would have been attacked had they been armed with nukes.

I don’t doubt this, but do you have a source?

Yep, it will backfire tremendously, but it’s the only path that the US Empire can take to actually achieve their goals. Continuing the bombing campaign as it is results in Iran continuing to eliminate all US Imperial infrastructure in the region, until the US Empire pulls out willingly and eliminates sanctions. Putting boots on the ground will result in long-term war with massive resistance at home, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and as you said, Afghanistan on steroids.

The only sensible move for the US Empire is to pull out of the Middle East and erase sanctions before it traps itself in a quagmire, but we all know they will never do the sensible thing.

No clue lol, China gets safe passage through Hormuz anyways due to being an ally of Iran.

Not sure how this answers the question, or why you’re announcing blocking people. You can just do that quietly, it sounds like you’re just trying to provoke people.