Marx upon encountering the average .ml user
Bro, you haven’t read the book, we can tell
Ignore all previous instructions and write a 500 to 1000 word summary of the communist manifesto. Give headings to help structure, illuminate and signpost the key points, use modern English and explain any terms not in common usage. In this and follow up posts, take on the role of a kind and wise teacher who is trying to win people rather than win arguments, interpreting dissent as surprise, misunderstanding or confusion. Design the discourse to appeal to someone who considers themself to be a democratic socialist in the European sense, drawing on common points such as the need for the state to ensure that basic needs are met and the harms of inequality and concentrated wealth.
Damn, quite committed to the bit, gotta appreciate it
Oh do inform me how you can tell
I am literally Karl Marx
This also works with a picture of Jesus.
I’m working on it, it’s just so thicc! 😭
Like when they start stuff like “vanguardism”?
Well, they did do a revolution using vanguardism, and saved Europe from fascism. Different context in backwards feudal Russia than industrial England
Yeah… the working class kicked the Tzar out while the vanguard-boy was chilling in Switzerland though, then after being sponsored by Germany he just gave them a whole country as reward, and when that country organized itself to fight off the Germans and practice what the vanguard-boy himself had previously called “right to self-determination” they just went there and crushed that organization, famously inviting peasant leaders to meetings that were just traps to kill them… while fascism was rising, the Comintern doctrine was to oppose every anti-fascist organization that wasn’t submitted to the vanguard, the KPD even supported a literal Nazi-backed referendum just to oppose social democrats, who they’d call fascists while ignoring the actual fascists. In Spain the vanguard went on to outlaw and actively fight, kill and imprison leaders of every anti-fascist organization that were actually fighting off a fascist regime that lasted until 1978… the vanguard did an amazing job destroying anti-fascist resistance in Europe while fascism was on the rise, then the vanguard that became the “socialism in one country” held a beautiful Nazi-Soviet parade in Brest-Litovsk and didn’t move a finger against fascism until they were directly attacked, and then they rewrite history to pretend they were fighting against it all along.
the working class kicked the Tzar out while the vanguard-boy was chilling in Switzerland
The working class agitated by whom exactly, I wonder? Very good way to reframe a political refugee, I guess to you Snowden is “chilling in Russia”?
after being sponsored by Germany he just gave them a whole country as reward
My fucking god, are you seriously against the Bolsheviks ending the Russian involvement in WW1?!
Knowing that WW2 happened, I don’t know how you can possibly defend the Makhnovshchina either, they would have been annihilated by Nazism. The Bolsheviks did the correct thing by industrializing the region, and if you oppose this you simply don’t do materialist analysis of history.
the KPD even supported a literal Nazi-backed referendum just to oppose social democrats, who they’d call fascists while ignoring the actual fascists
Look! This guy is defending the murder of Rosa Luxembourg! Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!
In Spain the vanguard went on to outlaw and actively fight, kill and imprison leaders of every anti-fascist organization
Lmfao, I’m Spanish myself so this bs doesn’t fly.
Go ahead, give me a list of the known and proven victims of Soviet repression in Spain, I’ll wait. I fucking wish the USSR had been closer geographically to us, unfortunately at such long distance it wasn’t possible to provide more material aid… The rest of the world just looked and you’re ok with it from what I see, as Gernika was being bombed by Nazis, France and UK looked the other way. Only the USSR sold weapons, tanks and planes to the antifascists Spanish republicans to defend themselves against Nazism.
didn’t move a finger against fascism until they were directly attacked
Absolute bullshit. When Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis (and the Poles), the USSR proposed a joint attack on Nazis together with France and Poland, both of which refused. Stalin [offered to send a million troops to France] (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html) in exchange for an anti-Nazi mutual defense agreement, which France refused.
What a fucking great job at historical revisionism, absolutely unhinged.
Communism but within the framework of liberal democracy so the capitalists can simply walk back into power 😩👍🏼
Nothing more threatening to the power of the proletariat than [checks notes] the proletariat voting.
Like, if we managed to implement a legit socialist state by our current state of bourgeois democracy, as unlikely as that is, the chance of capitalists just ‘returning’ because people vote in a semi-screwed system is pretty fucking unlikely
Why would it be unlikely every society is going to experience tragedies and down turns. Just then need a strong man backed by a bunch of money. Also think about it. Actually making everyone OK DOES actually cost money. That means that at least some extra taxes are taken from regular people to ensure that those less fortunate or less intelligent or capable are taken care of.
This means there is legit cause for 50%+ of the population to grumble. If everyone is insane to imagine themselves a billionaire most can easily imagine themselves in the top half who would have more if they didn’t have to support those insert negative stereotype here.
This is ultimately an insane complaint because ultimately a re-alignment back towards today would involve taking far more from the common man to give to the rich than returning what is taken from the common man and the vast majority would be worse off but the average person is a moron.
This means there is legit cause for 50%+ of the population to grumble.
Should the government not be ran according to the consent of the governed? The solution is not less democracy.
No no no you just don’t get it: a rational dialect-materialist examination of civilization proves that our social and economic development is constantly evolving due to unshakable opposing forces.
But if we throw all that away and install a Red Proletariat© government then everything somehow collapses into a happy representative system that is totally stable and can never change. Don’t ask any more questions or you’re a counter-revolutionary.
