They didn’t say “hating their subject”. They said “might not like their syllabus”, which could just mean they’d prefer a different syllabus.

And bicycles aren’t French bulldogs. So what?

That example may be bad, but it’s also typical.

False confidence is real, but it’s silly to think all confidence is false.

Do you honestly believe there is no greater poverty in America than “can’t buy the latest phone”? What about the swathes of people who struggle to keep a roof over their heads?

I thought that was her shit, and the title was saying, basically, “looks like she needs some medicine”. Like, yeah, i agree lmao

That fallacy only holds when it’s a retroactive and also incorrect claim of category error. This is neither retroactive nor incorrect. The USSR is not communist by any definition, not now, or before it existed, either. Marx himself wouldn’t have been a fan.

To oversimplify, there are three criteria for communism:

1. The state must be abolished. That means no government, no class of rulers, no individual or group with a monopoly claim on force to achieve their ends. People self-manage and organise their affairs and business by common agreement and consent based on mutual aid and co-operation.

2. Classes must be abolished. There can be no class distinctions remaining; specifically, no owners who can exploit workers. All are workers, and all commonly own all materially productive components of society. Nothing is privately owned by individuals (meaning nothing is gatekept for the purposes of gaining materially from doing so), but is democratically organised on the basis of need.

3. Money itself must be abolished. Once democracy has prevailed over the economy, the common ownership of the means of production has been achieved, and thus everyone has reached the stage where they can freely consume what they need and want without worry of whether they can “afford” it, money will be seen as the arbitrary constraint that it is, and cease to be useful, and disappear completely.

None of these things happened under the USSR. If Marx were a teacher and the USSR his student, they would get a failing grade.

Yes, but they also had a dogmatic and limited view of the theories they adapted. This inevitably led to corruption and revisionism.

Couple things for you to look up:

• Farming
• Transport

These two things would likely do it.

I’m proposing a revolution entirely led by the people, as that is the only true kind of revolution. The people who would then rule themselves with no intermediaries. Real grassroots organisation.

Our current institutions are the problem. Why should we keep them?

Lol sure. So why try and improve things? You’ll only make it worse. Enjoy the scraps.

Lemmygrad isn’t Nazi tho

Huh

What wrongs?

Haha yes, good joke, by the way, have you seen these new fangled automobiles? They’ll never replace the good old fashioned horse and carriage. I also hear some Austrian dickhead is making moves in Germany - hope it doesn’t spark another war. Anyway, I’m off to beat my wife and suppress my emotions, because it’s apparently 1920.

I don’t want the State owning all sources of wealth and material goods.

Good news - neither do communists! In fact communists want NO state :D