Nelson Mandela was a communist revolutionary, and he even thanked the USSR and Cuba on US television for their material support in their struggle against apartheid.
From the 60s onward, the USSR supported Palestine (and even fought a secret war week-long war against Israel), and the ANC, while the US supported Israel and the white south african ruling minority.
I highly recommend reading Losurdo - western Marxism, you would learn a lot from that.
20 minutes goes by Oopsie almost forgot to drop another bomb on the middle east!
Repeat every 20 minutes for 8 years straight
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read today. Stalin’s USSR defeated the nazi onslaught, destroyed 75% of nazi batallions, while paying the greatest cost in blood to defeat fascism in ww2. The nazis began to be pushed back at stalingrad in 1942, which is why the west realized they needed to open up the western front, because europe would turn red if they didn’t.
Obama was also a white supremacist president, that’s undeniable. From him calling black people thugs, to dropping a constant flow of bombs on the middle east and north africa, to the water crisis in flint, to letting citibank run the country.
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama
No.
Your country fought on the side of the Nazis in WW2, and helped them carry out the scorched earth policy you absolutely won’t forgive the USSR for turning back.
In case people aren’t aware, the Victims of Communism foundation is a US government organization that was set up by an act of congress in 1993.
Congress also passed a bill funding them to design highschool curriculum, called the “crucial communism teaching act”.
For a lot of them, they don’t even care if there’s tenant turnover, especially if its a high-demand area. There’s no incentive to fix a broken AC; the tenants already signed the year lease. They can get to it next year when its time to clean up the place for the re-listing.
Owning 1 slave: Okay
Owning a dozen slaves: Okay
Owning hundreds of slaves: not okay.
/s obviously
/uj
Of course slavery and landlordism aren’t identical in every respect, but they both are based on a parasite class doing no work, and extracting labor value from people who do. Large-scale vs small-scale doesn’t make landlording any more ethical.
We don’t have an instance stance on landlord apologia, but maybe we should make one, based on the number of people from other instances defending these mooching rent-seeking parasites.
