What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
Sometimes it feels like the Marxists of old were just so much better at analysing their material conditions and determining exactly how things would play out using a Marxist framework.
Nearly everything happening right now (in terms of capital’s relation to labour, technology, and society in general) was predicted with near pin-point accuracy by works from the 1900s or even 1800s
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there’s so many weird and unusual designs from the Soviet era.
If you lack resources and/or money - you have to think creatively. The opposite case makes me think of the US military. Beyond the endless corruption - they have astronomical resources and insane amounts of money so they don’t think very much.
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EditHere’s an informative 11 minute Youtube vid - The Strangest Aircraft Ever Built: The Soviet Union’s VVA-14.
This is also why China was able to develop LLMs that blow their Western counterparts out of the water using a fraction of the budget.
You might want to see my edit.
There’s a good sci-fi story in which the earth is flattened by aliens(not bombed, as in turned into a flat plane from a spheroid) and
has to fly the Caspian Sea Monster over the edgeMissile Gap by Charles Stross
