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anarch

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8. well yeah

Fri Mar 25, 2022, 06:36 AM

Mar 2022

or it belonged at any rate to the collective USSR, not to Ukraine.

If Putin gets what he wants, it will all belong to him and not the people of anywhere.

But that's what I mean--I guess it's just a two-edged sword of propaganda; you have the strong-man/fascist appeal to the MAGAts, and then the appeal to leftists of re-establishing the power of at least supposedly communist systems of control, whereas really both approaches are just appealing to some sort of will to power.

I dunno. Anyway, Putin's crusade is assuredly not about communism; it's more like an attempt to go back to the time of the Czars, except with him as the main Czar.

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do people really think Russia is still a communist country? [View all] anarch Mar 2022 OP

I don't believe that it ever was. Sherman A1 Mar 2022 #1

well it was at least intended to be anarch Mar 2022 #2

I'm not sure that it really was intended to be one Sherman A1 Mar 2022 #3

ok, but that has nothing to do with the economic system anarch Mar 2022 #6

Look, Sherman A1 Mar 2022 #9

I don't know, I feel like words should have meaning anarch Mar 2022 #10

Agreed. Never communist. Always totalitarian. Always ruled Tomconroy Mar 2022 #4

Maybe "communist" insofar as the economy. no_hypocrisy Mar 2022 #5

This. The means of production taken over by the state. brush Mar 2022 #7

well yeah anarch Mar 2022 #8

All systems of government are like Animal Farm in which some members of society are/become Backseat Driver Mar 2022 #11

that's not the point though; and I'm not talking about systems of government anarch Mar 2022 #12

Yes, and yes. taxi Apr 2022 #13

I think it was 2008-09 before I realized it. Captain Zero Apr 2022 #14