• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Says the man who has more communist policies than Hassan. Trump is very much in favour of state control of everything.

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      8 hours ago

      State control without any analysis of the class struggle isn’t socialist in any capacity. Communists want to establish a socialist state, one run by the workers, not simply empower an existing capitalist state. Hasan generally not demonizing existing socialist states is to the left of Trump, even if he’s more of a Social Democrat than anything else.

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        59 minutes ago

        But communism as the GOP defines it, is the Stalinist model of the appearance of socialism though communism state control.

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          44 minutes ago

          Communism is a post-socialist society where there is no state in the Marxist conception. The Soviet Union was socialist, run by a communist party. Stalin may have agreed with Marx on that, but did not invent it.