Most of the deaths under Stalin were from the conman Trofim Lysenko, who created “Lysenkoism” (a set of farming techniques he was faking the data on to get paid), and under both Mao and Stalin were from unwanted famines.

Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system, activated when the wealth gap gets too large.

Yep, so much of Reddit is like that… Creating an adversarial relationship with users …and just like YouTube slowing down people using ad blockers, or games demanding people be online, it will eventually drive people away.

Death by a thousand self-inflicted cuts.

…and all so they can steal our collective content, creativity, and every piece of individual thought or content we’ve ever communicated online.

…with the aim of exploiting it to make billionaires richer.

CAPITAL-ism is aimed and designed to benefit those with the capital.

No. The answer is no.

You should definitely rewatch that episode, he’s playing dumb to test the Captain’s ability to swindle and swindler.

Ha, this guy doesn’t think one party authoritarian states have political prisoners.

You’re free to look up these various systems of political punishment. Just answering 'theyre conspiracy theories ’ isn’t a convincing argument.

You have to win people to your cause if you want your systems to win.

There’s always more than one side in a revolution, and there’s always massacres.

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Political prisoners are a thing.

Gulags were a thing, labor camps have been a thing, vocational education and training centers, have been a thing, north koreas camps have been a thing, siberian labor camps have been a thing, pol pots torture camps have been a thing.

Authoritarian one party systems tend to have political prisoners, and institutions, camps, or prisons where they’re dealt with.

These are things the proletariat and lumpenproletariat (and other classes) get subjected too for political reasons, I’m saying I don’t want that happening. That it’s a bad thing.

They defeated the Nazis by throwing conscripts into a meat grinder regardless of whether they even had a weapon, and by threatening to shoot them if they tried to retreat.

That’s the nature of Authoritarian regimes. Not very working class of them.

No, I dislike all Authoritarian regimes. I dislike single party systems.

We’re discussing systems of the past of course, not possible variations or was a new Socialism moght structure its self.

But the problem is that Capitalism isn’t going down without a fight, and if there’s a fight there will likely be an Authoritarian one party system after, that performs a period of white/red terror, that’s difficult to avoid.

It’s a hard problem for revolutionary forms of Socialism.

Just to note; Capitalism also has this problem of paying workers the minimum in order to transfer wealth to profit/owners.

They were also sometimes used to detect piracy by looking at the code to create them making sure it was “official” in timing and white space.

Lots of Authoritarian one party economies are, Hitler’s, China’s, Ghengis Khan’s, Ancient Rome.

You can really make leaps and bounds with forced labour and a Stalinist regime… But I don’t want to live under such a system, nor would I automatically trust how it’s applied.

Here’s some photos of some gulag laborers digging the White Sea to Baltic canal for some extra bread and meat rations: https://allthatsinteresting.com/white-sea-baltic-canal

Insanely “good” economies are often created from poverty, serfdom, slavery, and forced labour. That’s not how I’d define a “good” economy though.

Authoritarian central planning sucks…

Workers having shares in companies and or the means of production doesn’t.

Her break dancing at the Olympics was hilarious.

Okay, I tried it, it’s not for me. Would be WAY better if the track pad was logarithmic so the cursor was closer to your thumb as it got lower on the screen, eventually meeting your thumb when dragged low enough.

If it had that feature (and played well with the bluelight filter I use, twilight) I’d be sold on it.