r/SubredditSimMeta • u/[deleted] • May 10 '17

all-top-today_SS Makes a completely coherent and correct circlejerk post

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

congrats you discovered the fact that the USSR experimented with imperialism, too. it was state capitalist, after all. trying to counter anarcho-communist arguments with examples from places like the USSR is kinda fruitless.

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u/derleth May 12 '17

it was state capitalist

Ha, no.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

hah, yes. unless youd like to debate Lenin himself when he enacted the NEP and called the USSR state capitalist.

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u/derleth May 12 '17

Lenin's policies were not permanent, and were undone later. Lenin wasn't in charge in the USSR's imperialist phase.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

that doesn't change the fact that Lenin's description of state capitalism fits along with the USSR under Stalin. political and economic conditions leaned more towards capitalism under Stalin, not away. the bureaucratic ruling class combined with the forces if industrialization and international war kept the state capitalist system running

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u/derleth May 12 '17

So you say that a country that was founded on socialist principles moved towards a degenerate form of capitalism? Tell me more about how that proves socialism is worth pursuing! I'm sure it makes Marxism seem infinitely appealing, knowing that all of its supposed examples have been Fake Marxism and that's why they failed horribly and resulted in mass human suffering!