Lenin started the authoritarianism of the USSR by 1923
Lenin started earlier than that... It started almost right after the Black Army aided the Red Army to defeat the White Army... The Red Army turned around, and murdered workers in the Black Army, because "They didn't do socialism, and went right to implementing full communism"...
Chiapas doesn't seem to be failing. Going on 30 years now. Rojava isn't failing either, due to it's system, but rather being attacked on the regular by imperialist nations like Russia and the US.
Because thats the end result of embiggening the state: The state gets bigger, and the oligarchs just changes faces.
It was something Marx remarked on later, post Paris Commune.
Not many people who never served would know, tbh.
if only...
A pack of smokes in NYS is ~$15US right now.
Marketing. Bsky got the venture dollars. That's all.
Its not an insult, per se. Its a categorization of the individual's beliefs, and also an understanding of what, exactly, our system is, in the US.
And yes, folks on the left don't like liberals all that much, ie:
"The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man. Let me first explain what I mean by this White liberal. In America there’s no such thing as Democrats and Republicans anymore. That’s antiquated. In America you have liberals and conservatives. This is what the American political structure boils down to among Whites. The only people who are still living in the past and thinks in terms of “I’m a Democrat” or “I’m a Republican” is the American Negro. He’s the one who runs around bragging about party affiliation and he’s the one who sticks to the Democrat or sticks to the Republican, but White people in America are divided into two groups, liberals and Republicans…or rather, liberals and conservatives. And when you find White people vote in the political picture, they’re not divided in terms of Democrats and Republicans, they’re divided consistently as conservatives and as liberal. The Democrats who are conservative vote with Republicans who are conservative. Democrats who are liberals vote with Republicans who are liberals. You find this in Washington, DC. Now the White liberals aren’t White people who are for independence, who are liberal, who are moral, who are ethical in their thinking, they are just a faction of White people who are jockeying for power the same as the White conservatives are a faction of White people who are jockeying for power. Now they are fighting each other for booty, for power, for prestige and the one who is the football in the game is the Negro. Twenty million Black people in this country are a political football, a political pawn an economic football, an economic pawn, a social football, a social pawn..." - Malcom X
And of course, Reich Wingers don't like liberals all that much, because they are the less authoritarian (Not un-authoritarian, mind you) than they are.
Nah, the DNC's choice to run with Harris, and doing it last minute, coupled with a focus on trying to convince hungry USians that the economy is great, so they should stop whining did it.
Contrary to your belief, posting on Lemmy isn't the only thing everyone does...
Like, I've been posting a lot to lemmy... This Saturday, I'm going to the range with a close group of family. Before shooting time, we're doing a STB refresher course. Sunday, over dinner, we'll be planning out the garden plots on the street.
Group efforts to root out fascism or other malcontents is hardly "Orwellian"....
Communism requires no state, no class, and no money. So, yes, all communist theory calls for the abolishment of the state.