>In an article critical of capitalism Wilson self-identifies as a "libertarian socialist", saying that "I ask only one thing of skeptics: don’t bring up Soviet Russia, please. That horrible example of state capitalismhas nothing to do with what I, and other libertarian socialists, would offer as an alternative to the present system." In his bookRight Where You Are Sitting Nowhe praises the German anarchist economistSilvio Gesell.
How can one man be so patrician?
He uses the space key correctly when he posts on Veeky Forums.
>Don't bring up previous leftist failures when we discuss Communism 2: Gulag boogaloo because it was "state capitalism" and left can shed responsibility.
>le no true Scotsman
He could've started with explaining what exactly Soviets did wrong, back in the 1920s. If only to not repeat their failures.
>there are people on this board who think dismissing an argument as "no true Scotsman" is an actual permissible argument by itself
But the Soviet failures have been recounted over and over and over, and all RAW is trying to do is put some distance between the Soviet 'ptoject' and his own vision of socialism.
what really was the soviet failures? communism turned some backwater shithole into a superpower which literally defeated the most evil man ever and conquered space
>massive, planned starvations
>chronic supply shortages
>rampant corruption and favoritism in post selection
>ZERO mobility, physical or social
>forced labor camps
>and so on
The very fact that there isn't a Soviet Union anymore is probably the most glaring demonstration of its failure.
that's some juicy propaganda you got there, laddie
>muh holodomor
Can skeptics bring up Yugoslavia, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Benin, Mongolia, etc?
That's some fantabulist ideologically-driven denialism, my dear jolly good chummo sir.
Completely worth it to live in a non degenerate state.
They let Stalin in power despite how much space Lenin devoted to criticizing him in the Journals. Then they exiled Trotter. This turned the CCCP into an autocracy under one strongman, rather than a state where power is distributed equally
Sorry, famiglia, that's how it is on this mobile app when you copy and paste from Wikipedia.
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No that wasn't real socialism either
You mean:
>Can skeptics bring up countries that were already third-world shitholes due to outside influences before they changed ideologies?
Kronstadt.
>communism failed
> therefore all leftist ideology is bullshit
>praise our god-emperor Ayn Rand
People on this board actually believe this.
It is funny to use their logic against them.
>fascism failed
>therefore all right ideology is bullshit
>praise our commissar Vladimir Lenin
'libertarian socialism' is the most pseud, reddit tier ideology ever conceived
exclusively the domain of 15 year olds who are the smartest in their shit tier school and watched some Chomsky videos on youtube
if you're going to be a communist at least have a fucking backbone
Lenin did nothing wrong desu
Maybe try actually pointing out what's wrong with it?
why?
Because you didn't make an argument, you just said "reddit" and described some caricature.
nice recount of my post
Absolutely correct.
More accurate to the Ayn Rand example would be good old Joey Stalin, who (memes aside) was actually a terrible, regressive person - just like Ayn!
But at least he had actual political experience.
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fucks wrong with Kronstadt, Shlomo?
But user, no country that isn't a third-world shithole would ever adopt communism in the first place.
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Trying to deny me a (You), are you?
>Hitler
>most evil man ever
He was just a victim of a dumb ideology.
I kept fucking up my post. Here's your (You).
Thanks, senpai. Here's yours as well.
>>massive, planned starvations
... of slavs. i don't see that as a failure.