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ITT: a bunch of lying ideologues that deny basic historical realities like the deliberate engineering of the holodomor or the brutal repression of dissent in soviet states
Maybe if "basic history" means "literally never read a book about it by a historian". Your description is a debunked fringe theory that was only ever entertained by a single serious historian and he was a big Cold Warrior that embarrassed himself.
You should begin your education by reading Wheatcroft and Davies.
Do you have a single source to back this up?
You should be embarassed. The consensus even among neoliberal historians (and not neoliberal pop-historians like Applebaum) is that it was not "engineered" and the Soviets did not desire to starve the soviet peasantry in the area because that's a hysterical double-holocaust myth.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/11/21/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
What dialectics does to a mfer
undefined> he political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution
I think the history has shown this to be false
White army anyone? Here's a 2 min video for you https://youtu.be/uThpIDlfcBQ
Yes, they were both bad. Enemy of my enemy is not necessary my friend.
I'm pointing out why the state can't just go away
So you agree that the premise that the state would just wither away is false?
No, I'm saying the state can't just wither away if it's necessary to defend against counter-revolutions and imperialism.
Defend what? Social democracy without democracy?
Please, the liberals in this thread don't even know what an Engels even is.
He's my buddy I just asked for rent money
Engles killed 100 zillion people.