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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
pictured - the revolution

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Please stop owning yourself.

Ibogaine
Aug 11, 2015
If this thread taught me anything it is this:

Communists are cool and good. Their detractors not so much.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If you guys are so concerned about achieving revolution in the first world, you could always ditch liberalism and become communists yourselves. All this talk about ecological collapse and refugee crises is where you're taking us right now, anyway.

'communism is definitely the most environmentally friendly ideology' said the Chinese characters on the poster obscured by smog and half-dissolved by acid rain

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Constant Hamprince posted:

'communism is definitely the most environmentally friendly ideology' said the Chinese characters on the poster obscured by smog and half-dissolved by acid rain

china's doing way more to curb emissions and reverse pollution than we are, c-ham. i posted a lot about it earlier in the thread

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Funny how China is either on the communist or capitalist roads depending on who's trying to exploit it & when.

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Funny how China is either on the communist or capitalist roads depending on who's trying to exploit it & when.

They're communist, capitalist and also fascist all at the same time. Quantum Horseshoe Theory.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Fiction posted:

I said violent revolution, not civil disobedience which has translated into electoral feasibility in Europe

i still feel like they're overestimating their chances at that too

glompix
Jan 19, 2004

propane grill-pilled

The Kingfish posted:

Ultraleftism is extremely cool.

and good.

I'm so stoked on Mason's Postacapitalism all I wanna do is work on FOSS and refinance everything to my credit union.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Homework Explainer posted:

china's doing way more to curb emissions and reverse pollution than we are, c-ham. i posted a lot about it earlier in the thread


Pictured: Air quality under advanced socialism.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Turns out offshoring industrial production also offshores pollution.

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Homework Explainer posted:

china's doing way more to curb emissions and reverse pollution than we are, c-ham.

lol. half that poo poo is made up and will never come to fruition (but all the money will be spent) or will not be maintained and left to rot.

source: all the dead trees outside of chinese cities from the last few times they tried this

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Bro Dad posted:

lol. half that poo poo is made up and will never come to fruition (but all the money will be spent) or will not be maintained and left to rot.

source: all the dead trees outside of chinese cities from the last few times they tried this

hmmmm this is a real puzzler. do i trust reports from news outlets and the chinese government or some internet guy who probably made a bunch of racist-assed posts in the gbs china thread

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Homework Explainer posted:

hmmmm this is a real puzzler. do i trust reports from news outlets and the chinese government or some internet guy who probably made a bunch of racist-assed posts in the gbs china thread

the news outlets you're trusting are the chinese government lol

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Homework Explainer posted:

hmmmm this is a real puzzler. do i trust reports from news outlets and the chinese government or some internet guy who probably made a bunch of racist-assed posts in the gbs china thread

yes the same government that disappeared under the dome for being too popular is for real serious this time about environmentalism

are you interested in investing in my straddling bus company

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


china, the country so polluted even its scenic rural areas are covered in haze is gonna get real serious about saving the environment. any day now

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

china is actually arguablly doing more than the US to combat climate change. but i'm sure you've looked it up and know exactly what china has done and aren't just pontificating ;)

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

Karl Barks posted:

china is actually arguablly doing more than the US to combat climate change. but i'm sure you've looked it up and know exactly what china has done and aren't just pontificating ;)

counterpoint: china bad

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Karl Barks posted:

china is actually arguablly doing more than the US to combat climate change. but i'm sure you've looked it up and know exactly what china has done and aren't just pontificating ;)

they care about climate change because 80% of their population is coastal, they don't give a gently caress about smogging the poo poo out of their urban population except when said city happens to be hosting the olympics

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

having really bad pollution seems like a good reason to have intensive anti-pollution efforts

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


remember that all the chinese government has are promises of throwing huge amounts of cash at the problem, meanwhile their economy is dependent on things like rare earth mineral mining for exports and coal for heating

oh keep in mind the whole emperor is far away power dynamic which will see a lot of these projects subcontracted into nothingness and graft (like a lot of land development)

Bro Dad fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Sep 23, 2016

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Peel posted:

having really bad pollution seems like a good reason to buy a condo in the west so you don't have to suffer like the peons

Now you're thinking with CCP!™

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
In some alternate universe a clean-shaven Homework Explainer is arguing about how actually the coal industry is doing far more to combat climate change then solar is, writing up a post linking to a industry faq before he is probated by ornery left wing ik boosted_c5

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
Also China can't control emissions even if they want to because a decent amount of pollution is from residential heating with coal or wood.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Homework Explainer posted:

hmmmm this is a real puzzler. do i trust reports from news outlets and the chinese government
no

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO
May 8, 2006
and on this page the smug liberal anticoms take a page out of the right wing notebook to note that climate controls are pointless because the chinese are only going to cheat anyway

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

and on this page the smug liberal anticoms take a page out of the right wing notebook to note that climate controls are pointless because the chinese are only going to cheat anyway

and in real life insane tankies pick their noses and sniff each others butts

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

and on this page the smug liberal anticoms take a page out of the right wing notebook to note that climate controls are pointless because the chinese are only going to cheat anyway

That didn't happen.

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
"They pushed for nationalization of major industrial firms, expansion of worker control, confiscation and redistribution of the estates of the old aristocracy, and social equality."

Can someone explain to me why left-wing fascism is bad??

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
Because of the racism. And the pointless killings. And the fact that they didn't actually do any of that poo poo. They just promised to do that, then when in power, gladly turned around and went right on building up that hierarchy.

The only real sincere attempt at uprooting the old economy, and planting a new one, one fundamentally different from what had come before, was the USSR. They failed. But you can't say they didn't try.

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

rudatron posted:

Because of the racism. And the pointless killings. And the fact that they didn't actually do any of that poo poo. They just promised to do that, then when in power, gladly turned around and went right on building up that hierarchy.

Those weren't the Left-Wing fascists in Germany. The left-wingers and the actual working class members of the NSDAP were immediately suppressed as soon as Hitler realised he could jump into bed with the industrialists and the old aristocrats.

Ernst Rohm :smith:

And I don't want pointless killings, I want killings of the ruling class and the rich in order to remove the threat they pose to social equality. You're kidding yourself if you think there's any way to build a left-wing society while those people are still around.

What other description would the liberal capitalists use for a dictatorship of the proletariat but fascist? It's not like it takes much for comparisons to be invited between fascism and even social democrats by them.

The Saurus fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Sep 23, 2016

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich

The Saurus posted:

Those weren't the Left-Wing fascists in Germany. The left-wingers and the actual working class members of the NSDAP were immediately suppressed as soon as Hitler realised he could jump into bed with the industrialists and the old aristocrats.

Ernst Rohm :smith:

And I don't want pointless killings, I want killings of the ruling class and the rich in order to remove the threat they pose to social equality. You're kidding yourself if you think there's any way to build a left-wing society while those people are still around.

Jesus Christ, even by your standards this is stupid. Do you think that the head of the SA may have had a tiny bit to do with the gangs of Nazi thugs getting into street fights with communists?

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
In the early 1930's I can understand people being anti-communist. Things weren't looking too great in Bolshevik Russia at the time what with the purges and gulags and 5 year plans.

It didn't exactly look like a philosophy that had delivered better conditions for the working class.

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich
Rohm was long dead before the Great Purge. Given how lovely Czarist Russia had been, the state of the USSR circa 1930 was not a good reason for a leftist to be anti-communist.

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333

There's also this but I'm pretty sure fervent communists deny that it ever actually happened

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

The Saurus posted:

Ernst Rohm :smith:

lol this loving guy

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

The Saurus posted:

Ernst Rohm :smith:

:getout:

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich
Question: fervent as he is in his desire to eat the rich, could The Saurus possibly contribute to the revolution by serving in a cannon fodder role in the red army? Or would it be wiser to have him arrested and reeducated?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

The Saurus will be put into the mine sweeping corps of the Penal Battalions.

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GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

The Saurus posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333

There's also this but I'm pretty sure fervent communists deny that it ever actually happened


sup dogg, this the thread for working class ephebophiles?? i'm asking... for a friend...

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