Highest prison population w/ privately owned prisons, besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.
Ask anyone who lived in a US controlled military dictatorship if they are scared of the upcoming elections. (Read the Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins). Besides, both parties are bought out by the bourgeoisie of you country, so nothing is ‘dangerous’, about voting since it will serve the same interests either ways.
How about I say that your country will collapse in the next 30ish years, while the rest of the world celebrates. Hopefully you can enjoy the horrors of war that you inflicted in so many places.
So you admit the US has the same form of governance that Russia has? Also you could argue that all parliamentary ‘democracies’ are oligarchies or as Marx said ‘dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’
Money cannot be a a dictator, it’s just pieces of paper with value, however the people who hoard it in massive amounts and use it to exert influence on the system, resulting in laws that favor them and their companies, are.
Russia isn’t implementing maternal paid leave, a good universal healthcare system, guaranteed housing, food, education, and a job, so it’s not heading for the ‘USSR ways’ and the USSR was socialist
It’s capitalism’s natural evolution, it happens in every capitalist country, regardless if it brands itself as social democratic, parliamentary democracy, etc.
but at least I know they won’t actually try to kill me.
Ask the hundreds of millions of corpses in Indonesia, Brazil, Guatemala, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Grenada, Iran, etc, etc. if they think liberalism ‘won’t actually try to kill them’ if they have an opinion that isn’t aligned with capitalist interests.
I don’t oppose Marxism-leninism. Tankies are by definition not marxist.
’Tankie’ is literally the word your sect uses to describe Marxist Leninists
Workers’ rights and class struggles and have gone full into adopting far right conspiracies in order to grab hold of the extremist votes
Such as? By the way worker’s rights and socialism cannot be attained simply by voting
as people who condone genocides commited by states which defined themselves as “communist”, so it’s extra weird to have to defend this notion
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