No, my comment is not confusing correlation with causation. You never explained this point, you just stated it as though it counters all of the hard evidence I brought supporting how well socialism works and how poorly capitalism has done in its place. Further, I never said prostitution did not exist in the Soviet Union, I said it skyrocketed after socialism was dissolved, which is uncontestably true.
As for Marx and numbers not adding up, he made minor mistakes here and there. Engels and other Marxists have corrected the figures and they do not change the points Marx made, nor do they disprove Marxist economics. That’s like suggesting that if a scientist makes a mistake in calculating gravity, that the law of gravity is wrong.
It’s also telling that, again, you never give examples, and entirely ignore the part where Marx debunked Henry George. You’re incapable of actually countering anything I say, so instead you make a thesis statement and confuse that for an argument itself. You aren’t going to convince any onlookers that way, and you sure as hell aren’t going to convince me, so why even try?
As for Putin being an enemy of the working classes, this is partially true. He is, after all, a nationalist leader and a billionaire. However, nationalist Russia still plays an internationally progressive role in undermining imperialism, which is positive.
Your latter comment is just racism, assuming hordes of Asians are going to conquest Russian land if Russia cannot defend itself from China and India. This was already true a decade ago, and yet no Chinese invasion of Russia seems plausible.
No, my comment is not confusing correlation with causation. You never explained this point, you just stated it as though it counters all of the hard evidence I brought supporting how well socialism works and how poorly capitalism has done in its place.
I didn’t explain my point because I do not have the time to go through every single bullshit point you made, that would just be a waste of time. I’ll pick one but this point could be made of every example you gave. You used the increase in life expectancy in the USSR as one reason why communism is superior to capitalism.
You fail to mention that life expectancy in the capitalist west increased to even greater figures or explain why USSR life expectancy tailed off in the 50’s only to rise after communism.
Prostitution, which is fine by me, oldest profession in the world and all that, where did all of the demand come from following the collapse of the USSR? Did capitalism corrupt the people’s minds or was the soviet government lying?
That’s like suggesting that if a scientist makes a mistake in calculating gravity, that the law of gravity is wrong
No it’s not and you have revealed the fatal flaw all of your crowd exhibits. You view economics as a hard science like physics, where there are universal immutable constants. Economics is a soft science where things are constantly changing depending on multiple factors. Marx did not “discover” the universal secrets of economics in the way Newton or Einstein did. Where in that article you send does Marx debunk George? It just reads like intellectual snobbery by a myopic man unable to see beyond his own work and defending his own views. You sit in an echo chamber of confirmation bias.
Marx’s ideas don’t work or add up, they are from another time, same as George for that matter. Their ideas do not work for modern globalised economies. If they did surely we would have seen the proletariat rise up and seize the mean of production. I am sure this is coming any day now buddy.
However, nationalist Russia still plays an internationally progressive role in undermining imperialism, which is positive.
WTF? Hilarious statement! RUSSIA IS AN EMPIRE! All of the empires try and undermine each other as they always have. You are displaying the third worldism tankies have adopted since the proletariat never rose up, now relying on rebel groups in developing countries to carry on the revolution.
This was already true a decade ago, and yet no Chinese invasion of Russia seems plausible.
No invasion necessary here, Putin is so deep in Xi’s pocket at this stage he is playing with his balls! Russia is so overdependent on China and China alone that they are now just a vassal state of China. No matter the outcome of the war this will be true. China will reclaim their lost territories without blood and secure the water their large population requires.
No, my comment is not confusing correlation with causation. You never explained this point, you just stated it as though it counters all of the hard evidence I brought supporting how well socialism works and how poorly capitalism has done in its place. Further, I never said prostitution did not exist in the Soviet Union, I said it skyrocketed after socialism was dissolved, which is uncontestably true.
As for Marx and numbers not adding up, he made minor mistakes here and there. Engels and other Marxists have corrected the figures and they do not change the points Marx made, nor do they disprove Marxist economics. That’s like suggesting that if a scientist makes a mistake in calculating gravity, that the law of gravity is wrong.
It’s also telling that, again, you never give examples, and entirely ignore the part where Marx debunked Henry George. You’re incapable of actually countering anything I say, so instead you make a thesis statement and confuse that for an argument itself. You aren’t going to convince any onlookers that way, and you sure as hell aren’t going to convince me, so why even try?
As for Putin being an enemy of the working classes, this is partially true. He is, after all, a nationalist leader and a billionaire. However, nationalist Russia still plays an internationally progressive role in undermining imperialism, which is positive.
Your latter comment is just racism, assuming hordes of Asians are going to conquest Russian land if Russia cannot defend itself from China and India. This was already true a decade ago, and yet no Chinese invasion of Russia seems plausible.
I didn’t explain my point because I do not have the time to go through every single bullshit point you made, that would just be a waste of time. I’ll pick one but this point could be made of every example you gave. You used the increase in life expectancy in the USSR as one reason why communism is superior to capitalism.
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You fail to mention that life expectancy in the capitalist west increased to even greater figures or explain why USSR life expectancy tailed off in the 50’s only to rise after communism.
Prostitution, which is fine by me, oldest profession in the world and all that, where did all of the demand come from following the collapse of the USSR? Did capitalism corrupt the people’s minds or was the soviet government lying?
No it’s not and you have revealed the fatal flaw all of your crowd exhibits. You view economics as a hard science like physics, where there are universal immutable constants. Economics is a soft science where things are constantly changing depending on multiple factors. Marx did not “discover” the universal secrets of economics in the way Newton or Einstein did. Where in that article you send does Marx debunk George? It just reads like intellectual snobbery by a myopic man unable to see beyond his own work and defending his own views. You sit in an echo chamber of confirmation bias.
Marx’s ideas don’t work or add up, they are from another time, same as George for that matter. Their ideas do not work for modern globalised economies. If they did surely we would have seen the proletariat rise up and seize the mean of production. I am sure this is coming any day now buddy.
WTF? Hilarious statement! RUSSIA IS AN EMPIRE! All of the empires try and undermine each other as they always have. You are displaying the third worldism tankies have adopted since the proletariat never rose up, now relying on rebel groups in developing countries to carry on the revolution.
No invasion necessary here, Putin is so deep in Xi’s pocket at this stage he is playing with his balls! Russia is so overdependent on China and China alone that they are now just a vassal state of China. No matter the outcome of the war this will be true. China will reclaim their lost territories without blood and secure the water their large population requires.