@radikalfilm

It is still fight, one battle had been lost, but ultra-imperialism that Biden is for will never happen.

Only conceivable basis under capitalism for the division of spheres of influence, interests, colonies, etc., is a calculation of the strength of those participating, their general economic, financial, military strength, etc. And the strength of these participants in the division does not change to an equal degree, for the even development of different undertakings, trusts, branches of industry, or countries is impossible under capitalism. Half a century ago Germany was a miserable, insignificant country, if her capitalist strength is compared with that of the Britain of that time; Japan compared with Russia in the same way. Is it “conceivable” that in ten or twenty years’ time the relative strength of the imperialist powers will have remained unchanged? It is out of the question.

Therefore, in the realities of the capitalist system, and not in the banal philistine fantasies of English parsons, or of the German “Marxist”, Kautsky, “inter-imperialist” or “ultra-imperialist” alliances, no matter what form they may assume, whether of one imperialist coalition against another, or of a general alliance embracing all the imperialist powers, are inevitably nothing more than a “truce” in periods between wars. Peaceful alliances prepare the ground for wars, and in their turn grow out of wars; the one conditions the other, producing alternating forms of peaceful and non-peaceful struggle on one and the same basis of imperialist connections and relations within world economics and world politics.

V. Lenin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

@radikalfilm

Such a great political analyst this Lenin guy was. It's a shame Putin wants to boot him out of the Red Square mausoleum.

Actually he does not, here only marginal politicians ever said this, more mainstream one are still very afraid even to talk about it.

Having lived my first 16 years of life under actual socialism/communism, I can attest that system sucks too, in different ways.

Because you mostly lived under socialism that had been going fast toward capitalism, more market, more inequality, more trading and so on.

The Chinese have shown that capitalism doesn't require personal liberty. I for one care more for the liberty part than for unbridled enterprise, but I fear liberty is incompatible with advanced technology.

Liberty and freedom are shitty terms, until defined precisely.

If someone owns all land, machines and even electronic money - it is not much freedom or liberty. This is why we have libertarians mostly among small business owners during brief phase, as if they become bigger they change their views and same happens if they go out of business and go work for new owner (as 96% of such guys).

@radikalfilm

"Because you mostly lived under socialism that had been going fast toward capitalism, more market, more inequality, more trading and so on." In Romania? No, it was going fast towards North Korea.

You need to open and read serious research on Romania. Stop rely on mass media.

To be short - your top guys made two errors, first by accepting US and WE offers and starting integrating with them and accepting credit money, and second - they behaved wrong as they pulled the hook, by starting giving back credits at the expense of the people and refusing USSR and others help.

I'm a libertarian, corporatocracy and communism are equally evil in my mind.

No such thing as "corporatocracy " exist except in some capitalist media.

Also you need to understand that libertarian views are utopia, and regressive utopia.

Pirates were not free (again, lack definition of "free" here!), it is media that made them such.

Mordor's might be the most livable, as the society still has the memory of why Stalinism is bad.

I smiled so widely here.

We have around 200 huge anti Stalin and anti communism museums made in last 10 years, each and every film showing how communists are evil shits. Yet each year support for Stalin and his methods is growing (independent research how around 65-70% of population support new round of communist repressions now).