• masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    existence of inequality meant the existence of class.

    Again - which part of this…

    The most basic requirements of socialism are that the working class is in control of the state, means of production.

    …contains the term “equalitarianism,” tankie?

    Do tell, tankie… how does this inequality exist if the working class are in control of the means of production?

    Your concept of socialism is anti-socialist.

    Why should we treat you any different from all the other anti-socialists?

    The party is made up of the working classes,

    Oh really? These party elites you simp for are mere members of the working class, eh tankie?

    When it comes to modernising feudal power relations for secular industrialisation you Marxist-Leninists have outdone liberal capitalists by every metric except longevity.

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      12 days ago

      Your point on there being some level of inequality in Cuba is basically a point about equalitarianism. The inequality exists because Cuba is a very poor country, and as such there is uneven development and distribution, even if tje working classes are in power. Yes, the PCC is a working class party.

      You have no points, you just redefine words and hurl petty insults. It’s painfully boring, especially considering your line of logic is being used right now to justify bombing Venezuela. You despise the working class and the power it builds as it actually exists in real life, while you continue to paint an ever purer vision in your head to beat the global south with like a club. You’re an imperialist first and foremost.

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        11 days ago

        The inequality exists because Cuba is a very poor country

        Right, right… it has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of a party elite that takes care of itself first.

        Riiiiight.

        You have no points,

        Again… why do you despise the working class, tankie?

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          11 days ago

          Correct, the fact that people are paid differently for different job positions that vary in complexity and importance is a factor of development. In a higher, more developed stage, this disparity will shrink, but the first obstacle to that is ending the blockade, not overthrowing socialism. You can repeat your mantra like you’re casting a spell, but your words ring hollow as you continue to manufacture consent for the US empire to overthrow Cuba’s democratically run socialost system as it’s doing right now with Venezuela.

          If the only thing you recognize is purity, then you alienate yourself from real working class struggle. You have the kind of attitude of someone who doesn’t actually organize in real life, because the only things that pass your purity test are ideas.

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            11 days ago

            In a higher, more developed stage, this disparity will shrink,

            Oh, so the closer Cuba gets to Marxist-Leninist Second Coming - oops, I meant to say, “communism” - all work will suddenly be equal in complexity and importance, huh?

            Did you learn that from Marx? Really?

            manufacture consent for the US empire to overthrow Cuba

            What’s with the sweat, tankie? I don’t mean this as a compliment… but this level of desperation is uncommon in your kind in my experience.

            Is your loyalty to “The Party” not as pure as you’d want it to be?

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              11 days ago

              As Cuba develops, it can better provide for its people. Production equipment that produces more provides for more. It’s not a random, instant snap from whatever evil fantasy you have of it to a communist paradise, but a gradual process of improving production, distribution, infrastructure, etc so as to better materially support the populace. This is basic Marxism, yes, verified in real life by real practice.

              I have no idea what you mean by “my loyalty to my party” or “desparation.” The US Empire is actively kidnapping democratically elected left wing leaders to re-colonize these countries. The problem with only painting prettier and prettier pictures of socialism in your head and using it as a club to bash against anyone doing socialism in real life that doesn’t quite look like your fantasy is that you change nothing and uphold imperialist narratives about these countries.

              Claiming I despise the working class is just projection on your part.

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                10 days ago

                As Cuba develops, it can better provide for its people.

                So how does this make all work “equal” in complexity and importance?

                This is basic Marxism, yes,

                So you’re going to try and blame Marx for the fact that the working class and the actual work we do is nothing but abstractions for you to play with?

                “my loyalty to my party”

                Since when have you tankies been loyal to anything else?

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                  10 days ago

                  As technology improves, work becomes more similar in complexity and ease. We develop things that make it easier to work all the time, it’s just that under capitalism this is for profit, rather than needs. For the labor that can’t be made equivalent, usually reduced working hours or other such implementations are suggested.

                  I don’t “blame” Marx for anything, I thank him for accurately explaining the mechanisms of capitalism and how the working classes can gain control, as they’ve done in Cuba. I’m also not a member of the PCC, so I don’t know what you mean by “party” loyalty in the context of Cuba. I do organize, but not in Cuba. I’m loyal to the working classes, and support their system.

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                    10 days ago

                    As technology improves, work becomes more similar in complexity and ease.

                    You haven’t actually done any damn work in your life, have you?

                    No, tankie, your fellow brain-addled bullshitters have lied to you - there is no such thing as “luxury space communism” and there never will be. A nurse’s job will never be “more similar in complexity and ease” than a miner’s. And technology doesn’t make any of this work easier - it simply adds more layers of complexity on top.

                    If this wasn’t mere abstraction to you - a supposed “socialist” - it wouldn’t have been necessary for me to explain it to you.

                    I don’t “blame” Marx for anything,

                    I sometimes wish Marx was still around - just to watch him kick you in the face every time one of you tankies try to lick his boots.