Is there any society that hasn't turned into a horror show of murder, famine and destruction at the hands of Marxist ideologues?
>communists have a successful grab for power >attempt to implement their ideology through reform >fails miserably >wasn't real communism and/or we need the entire world to implement communism, so just hand over all of your nations into the hands of a few 'intellectuals' to control resource distribution
Why do Marxists even have a leg to stand on enough that they aren't laughed out of every university? How aren't these dangerous psychopaths put in mental institutions?
There is no modern ideology free of murder, famine and destruction.
Nathaniel Walker
Textbook whataboutism.
Brandon Cox
Yeah remember all those capitalist gulags in the USA and the mass treason trials?
Samuel Peterson
Hehe like those 2 million people in jail. Like those political activists they shot (MLK, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton)
Dominic Sanders
Yugoslavia and Vietnam have had a relatively not shit time in comparison to the big communist societies (eg China and Russia). This isn't even talking about democratic socialist parties, who claim at least part of their lineage from Marx.
The guy has more successes, at least, from an ideological standpoint, than most people seem to believe on here.
Hudson Butler
Malcolm X got killed by Nation of Islam niggers?
MLK got shot by some random racist?
Blacks in jail have prior records of offences?
Nathaniel Ramirez
>In Capitalist USA today there is no starvation, violence, or destruction. Capitalist USA never exports these things to other countries so it can maintain its hegemony
Jaxon Garcia
>Yugoslavia You haven't taken the balkanpill >Vietnam They were more nationalistic at first but then Mao subverted it
Cameron Stewart
>dere are homeless ppl so it's the same as gulags and mass famine (OMG OMG KULAKS LE CONSPIRACY)
This is "AND YOU LYNCH NEGROES" except modified for the 21st century. Why are you relying on ancient Soviet propaganda techniques? Does /leftypol/ just regurgitate memes from the 50's endlessly?
It's pretty, ah, sad.
Sebastian Carter
The USSR was great and achieved a lot, despite enduring Civil War and the brunt of fascism in WW2. For the first socialist states, there's a lot to be proud of. The famines were ended by 1946 in the USSR and were mostly caused by drought, even the so called "Holodomor". >capitalist gulags in the USA There are far more people in prison in the US than were ever in gulags. The US uses prison labour extensively and was built on slavery and genocide. All are intrinsic parts of capitalism. >mass treason trials McCarthyism, Palmer Raids etc.
>There are far more people in prison in the US than were ever in gulags.
.....when you consider the fact that the US has much larger population in total, that's not remotely surprising.
Joshua Perry
>It's le conspiracy by le ((INTEREST GROUPS LE KULAKS xddddd))
Instantly disregarded. Remember kids, with communists it's collectivism when you can blame capitalism and individualism whenever collectivism fucks up!
Sebastian Moore
320m vs 290m isn't that much of a difference. The millions of people incarcerated in the US, especially given its racialised basis, proves hollow the idea of the land of the free. Where did I say it was a conspiracy? The existence of kulaks is undeniable, not that I was even particularly blaming them, but it is a fact that the kulaks killed around 26 million cattle, 15 million horses and 63.4 million sheep, not to mention the crops burnt.
Robert Morales
mccarthyism
Caleb Smith
Kerala
Aiden Smith
>It is a fact
lol
Remember kids, whenever communism fucks up, it's ALWAYS capitalism's fault. Whenever we're wrong, they're wrong. Right? Right. If you disagree, you get sent to the asylum for sluggish schizophrenia.
Austin Clark
Not really no, black people are in jail because they commit a lot of crimes. Finding an innocent black man in jail is like finding a unicorn, they all have rap sheets a mile long starting from the age of 14, usually.
Dominic Hill
He is right. Peaceful reformism has always been sabotaged by those in power anyway
Levi Johnson
>State a logical fallacy >called out on logical fallacy >I'M STILL RIGHT PRAISE LENIN
Do you people have arguments? Or is it just EVIL EVIL EVIL CAPITALISM over and over and over again until the rest of us get too tired to, ahem, """debate'"" with your mongoloid spew anymore?
Josiah Howard
>McCarthyism Slap on the wrist compared to Soviet shit. How many people were executed because of doctored McCarthy witch hunts? From what I know it was just some jew Hollywood writers being buttmand they've been put on a list and investigated.
t. Eastern European
Ryder Smith
I will fully admit flaws in the socialist system. But Western revisionism has to be countered. And yes, the role of capitalism in undermining socialism from the outset, with the 1918 Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War to help the Whites, all the way up to anti-communist dissidents funded by the West in the late 1980s by Charter 77, must be exposed, as well as internal wreckers.
Gavin Wilson
counter western revisionism with a non genocidal ideology then
Grayson Moore
Communism is not genocidal.
Luis Wright
Any society which collapsed before the formulation of Marxism.
Cooper Martin
There were also blacklists and loyalty pledges and a bunch of other weird shit.
Mainly people were pissed because he was taking shit that needed to be done (finding commies) and using it for his own personal vendetta. He made anti-communism look stupid by using flimsy/no evidence and asspulls and attention whoring constantly.
Bentley Perez
>He made anti-communism look stupid I think McCarthyism was a communist false flag for that exact purpose, on behalf of (((Roy Cohn)))
David Clark
I only brought it up since we were talking about America. True there were no killings, but that's unsurprising; the US usually does the dirty work of mass killing communists abroad via puppets, to stop the "domino effect". McCarthyism was based on deliberate, intentional lies. There was plenty of anti-communist legislation, state-media collaboration in the US press though, and it all helped play up support for foreign interventions against communists in Korea, Vietnam and so on.
Well then don't bring up McCarthyism if it was literally nothing then.
Matthew King
Whataboutism isn't a logical fallacy dumbass. I am only saying that no other ideology in the pursuit of power is bloodless. Peaceful reforms had been tried in tandem with bloody revolutions, and the latter is more successful than the former
Jaxson Bailey
More specifically, they are in prison for serious crimes. People do wind up in jail for trivial shit in the US, no sense in denying that, but most of the blacks in the prison system are there because they murdered, raped, robbed at gunpoint or assaulted somebody with a deadly weapon. No modern justice system could let shit like that slide and not cause anarchy on a large and massive scale.
Meanwhile in commieland, people got locked up for disagreeing with the government.
Matthew Rogers
You're pretty, ah, fucking retarded.
Jeremiah Cook
It's a cancer that will literally never die. Just look at Veeky Forums if you want examples
Jacob Morales
That's true, but other ideologies have good examples as well as bad ones. Communists only have bad ones.
Michael Sanders
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Evan Price
It wasn't "literally nothing", its effects are still being felt today
Landon Howard
And by effects you mean communist butthurt?
Hunter Ross
It did immense damage to the US labor movement and paved the way for all the death and destruction the US government has caused at home and abroad over the last 70 years, so yeah I am a bit butthurt. I'm sure the 2 million dead Vietnamese who wanted national liberation were just butthurt too. Politics tends to get quite serious, you see.
Jace Diaz
Are you implying that the socialist would not neglect environmental issues in favor of opening up new and better jobs?
Sebastian Peterson
depends stalin was pretty lax towards the environment but every socialist i know these days is very much conscious of ecology you kinda have to be
Sebastian Allen
>Vietnam war happened because of McCarthyism It's time to stop memeing, retatd.
Jace Sanders
It's the same anti-communist line of thought. McCarthyism for internal repression, war for external containment. There's no real difference between opposition to communism.
Parker Diaz
Vietnam actually had nothing to do with communism but everything with sphere of influence. If the USSR was fascist or something it would've been no different.
Eli Rogers
Fascists wouldn't have supported a war of national liberation. And yeah it was about sphere of influence; the influence of Marxism-Leninism.
William Butler
>Le leftypol
Just because something isn't as bad as gulags or whatever doesn't mean what is happening in the USA today doesn't fit within the parameters of the original argument given. And you only addressed half of my argument.
Take a deep breath and try talking about the topic like a grownup.
