What deportation of ethnic minorities “and the like”?

Ukraine isn’t imperialist; it’s a vassal of US empire.

They are all bad

Good job, that’s exactly the understanding and framing that the Council on Foreign Relations wants you to have.

Trying to excuse your oppression does it too is not a valid argument.

Nobody is making such an argument.

People deserve freedom not subjugation

Ok then, that was always allowed.

You literally assumed that implication. And in any case, no one would seriously claim that every single person who the Red Army killed was a Nazi. That would have been literally impossible given that it was the bloodiest war in world history.

Deeply unserious pedantry.

So basically everyone one but the imperial core:

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Reason: Trivialization of Genocide

State capitalism refers to countries where private ownership is the principle aspect and the bourgeoisie in charge of the state

Except when it refers to something else entirely, which Lenin did, to my frustration.

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The term “tankie” originates from British psuedo-communists who supported the USSR using tanks against the Hungarian resistance, notably civilians, to impose their authoritarian and colonial rule upon them.

So you didn’t even bother to read what you’re replying to. The Hungarian civilians in question were bourgeois- & CIA-backed fascist counter-insurgents.

Socialist countries aren’t communist, you call them pre-communist which highlights my point.

This is just quibbling over semantics & context. When communists run a state, yes that state is technically socialist/pre-communist. That’s why those states have “Socialist” in their names and not “Communist.” There is never going to be a “communist state,” because definitionally communism’s long-term end-goal is a classless society. And since we define the state as a system which protects the interests of one economic class over others, such a society would definitionally be stateless.

So when someone—assuming they know what they’re talking about—says “communist state/country,” they mean a communist-led socialist state.

Even funnier is when “left” liberals think we’re conservatives, because no one but conservatives has ever pushed back on them before.

And the state of Israel has a right to exist

Why should a genocidal European settler-colonial state have a right to exist in West Asia?

This dead horse was already beaten half a day ago in this thread.

Believe me I wouldn’t have done it if I weren’t living there at the time.

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If Trotsky’s ideas had been implemented, the USSR would have been ethnically cleansed by the Nazis, and the rest of Europe would have fallen to them, save Italy & Spain which were already fascist.

Regardless of the article’s nuance or criticality, Foreign Policy is a major mouthpiece of the US military-industrial complex.

Oh, Canada. 🫣