If it's more than zero

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take so we can't afford to not build these things.

I do agree that an assassination attempt was not needed.

whose primary functions include reproducing itself

Mind expanding on that since it seems like in the us its doing a piss poor job of it. In fact I'd say that a capital dominated state wants to do away with itself via privatization.

Engle's makes a pretty convincing argument that the state arose to mediate class conflict in favor of capital and that it cannot be destroyed until that class conflict is resolved.

Take the landlord tenant relationship. In order for this to exist then the landlord must exercise their property right through state mediated violence and the tenant is offered some rudimentary protections. If the state simply no longer recognized the property right of the land lord the state would wither and class conflict would resolve a bit.

America is just too sexist, racist, xenophobic etc to do that.

Which are all products of capitalism so another interesting difference. Russia does seem horrible on the queer front tho. If it gets better that'll be a good indicator of its evolution

I read it and once again I don't have a great understanding of how Russia is organized and would love some good sources.

Regarding the new deal. It would only be a step towards communism if the capital class was being subjugated in order to redistribute the wealth and if that wealth was not bc of super profits. Since the new deal didn't disempower capital the reforms were unwound. Since China has made capital sub to the prols in many ways it can make headway to communism and it continues to do so. How and what Russia has done is not something I have knowledge of but since the us has started a war with them I can make the reasonable assumption that Russia's wealth is not being made available to western oligarchs. Who is it being made available to? I don't know. But as i said before Tyson says that its going to the prols. If that is the case and if it is the case that the redistribution is because of capital subjugation then Russia is going commie. Another thing I think is interesting is that it seems like there is no large movement forcing the redistributive efforts ala the new deal. So I'll continue to keep and open mind towards rus

I thought Putin was popular because of his resistance to the shock doctrine. Russia doesn't seem imperial and has a ton of productive capacity. With that many prols and the their history with the USSR certainly they're not actually as bourgeois as the us now. Do you have any information? Most I've read is Kathleen Tyson and she describes it as some sort of proto China.

Was that not him speaking about Russia in the 90s?

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lmao i went to the mod log to look at it and still didn't finish reading it.

I have read Mao's "On Contradictions" tho

I have synthesized the two wolves. now we can move on

https://archive.ph/x5obz

Srsly why can't archive links be the rule?

landslide

What's a that old saying "you can't a convince a man against something his salary depends on"? Or something.

Liberals believe what they do because they have to to maintain their positions. You'll never convince a homeowner that's interested in their property values that crimes against humanity are occurring to raise said value. Time and time again they've been patiently explained too and their views still allow for horror. Absent explication these laws have obvious conclusions of which even incurious people should easily be able to divine, the fact so many cannot or claim to not shouldn't be surprising to a materialist. The serene explanations can be set aside for something else.