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This website needs age verification so that we can ban everybody who was alive before the dissolution of the USSR (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Why didn’t you stop it you LIB

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[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

I once saw an alleged """leftist""" say that communism was better off now that the USSR wasn't around to split the left.

So I guess I let it dissolve to help global communism because now we have nothing to argue about

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Almost certainly got that from Chomsky's shit tier take on the end of the USSR.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

at the time politicians were spewing bullshit about a "peace dividend", wonder why that never showed up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend

[-] CommCat@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Isn't that the DSA line? I remember reading it on their website, they hated the USSR and was happy with it's downfall, they thought their "Democratic Socialism" would win in the new Eastern bloc countries, instead they shifted to the right.

[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

No idea what the DSA line is, but I suspect that a lot of people in the DSA don't actually believe that the transition to socialism can be achieved through the electoral system, but they just maintain that line to be able to exist in the USA.

I think Engels also theorized that the transition could happen democratically, but I can't imagine any serious socialist believing that after seeing the events of the 20th century.