What's wrong with Marxism?
Cowbee
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It hasn't failed, what on Earth are you talking about? They still organize every day and are gaining many new members after the election results.
Not at all. By wiping away the piles of slander and lies proudly, Socialists can better connect with historical socialists and communists.
That circles back to Marxists taking issue with class society and see the state's oppressive aspects as instruments in perpetuating class society. If you move beyond class society, the state's oppressive aspects whither away.
No. MAGA Communism and Patriotic Socialists already exist, and have far more in common with the Nazis due to taking a Nationalist stance in an Imperialist country.
I don't think RCV or STAR is either enough to disrupt the status quo with a third party nor feasible enough to get in place.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation exists. If you want something less Socialist, more Social Democrat, the Greens already exist.
The Western Left has a difficult task in understanding the mechanisms of Capitalism as it extends into Imperialism clearly, because they are frequently the beneficiaries of Imperialism. For anyone sympathetic to Cuba that is also pro-NATO, I encourage you to look into Global North exploitation of the Global South, and how NATO solidifies this Imperialist relationship of hyper-extraction. That's what Castro is getting at here.
I gotcha, that mostly makes sense to me. I can see where you're coming from, even if I disagree, in my opinion the structure itself is far more important than what you call it. One thing I do want to point out, is that vanguards don't "take place of" the state, and largely cannot unless they are a bourgeois vanguard against foreign imperialists. This circles back to the difference between Marxists and Anarchists in interpreting the State, a Vanguard even with weak democratic structures in place doesn't constitute a separate class, just like how managers in a business are still proletarian.
Corruption is taken very seriously in AES states, and is lessened by regulating wages of officials to those of skilled workers. There will always be corruption regardless of society, but Socialism gives more mechanisms to keep that in check than Anarchism.