Yes, the following line is ‘to hell with Spain’ I believe, it was used as a cassus belli to start the Spanish-American war in which y’all took over Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and practically took over Cuba, although Cuba was technically made independent.

Remember the Maine!

(this goes back waaaaaaaay before ww2)

The Ukraine’s (and the west’s) demands are utterly insane, but others have addressed that better. Just gonna nitpick that the USSR only put missiles in Cuba as a response to the US having stationed missiles in Turkey, right on the Soviet’s doorstep. It should be called the ‘Turkish Missile Crisis’ or the ‘NATO Missile Crisis’ - it’s always the US starting this shit and then, like an abusive partner, gaslighting the world into accepting their narrative, painting themselves as the victim when they’re the aggressor.

ok, but those European countries have never been libertarian, neoliberal in recent years sure, but that’s been the point where things went to shit. If they wanted to copy our ‘success’, they should look at our social-democratic period where the bourgeoisie were willing to pay off the workers (with the scraps of neo-imperialism which obviously is not available to Argentina).

Except that it doesn’t work in the global north and never has. Hell, it has never even been implemented in the way these psychos want, cause even the worst neoliberal inhuman trash understand that these libertarians are deranged idiots.

I wonder if I can finally convince my relatives how serious this shit is, now that it’s affecting them… :(

Hail satan, comrade. 🤘

Hey, don’t insult Satan like that.

Indeed, the strains that want something slightly more realistic (like worker co-ops) are a lot easier to speak to. As you say they tend to lack a practical means of implementing their desired society, or if they have ideas, they seem to just ‘reinvent’ MLism with different terminology (cue the Engels quote).

In Marxist terms, the state is a tool of class oppression, it is the machinery by which one class imposes its will on all others. Under capitalism (or rather, under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (DotB), like e.g. the US, UK, France, Brazil, etc.) it is the bourgeois class who controls the state and uses it to oppress the proletariat (and any remnants of prior classes like the peasantry). In a dictatorship of the proletariat (DotP), that structure is inverted and the proletariat uses the state to oppress the bourgeoisie (and any remnants of say, aristocracy or whatever).

The idea is that in a DotP, the bourgeoisie will eventually become proletarianized and, after a long enough period when there are no more bourgeoisie, there will be no more proletariat (as classes are defined in terms of the conflict between them). Without a class system, there will be no longer any reason for the state - as that tool of class oppression to exist. All that will be left in terms of governance, will be the administration of things. You still need to manage healthcare, housing, transport, etc.

I’m not even sure we have the same intended long-term goal as them tbh. At least, a lot I’ve come across really seem to think ‘stateless’ means no government, no large scale infrastructure, the old ‘someone will make insulin as a hobby’ meme.

Buying wizard game is a sign you’re actually a piece of shit human being. I’m holding off on Atomic Heart until I find out a bit more about the politics, but might pick it up if it’s not bullshit anti-Soviet propaganda.

and to support the war effort against the banderites lol

Unfortunately, the only criticism I’ve heard (outside of communist circles obviously) of Melloni is that she’s going to be prime minister because she’s a woman. In other words, people are more concerned about the ‘wokeness’ of the fascists than them being… you know… fascists. She’s also all the other things you’d expect, homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc. etc.

To clarify, Melloni’s party, FdI broke from Berlusconi as he wasn’t right wing enough for them, but while they poll the highest, they can’t form a government alone and will still require the ‘centre-right’ coalition to form a majority. This grouping includes the Lega Nord (who’ve rebranded from their racist, islamophobic, seccessionism to racist, islamophobic nationalism) and Forza Italia (Berlusconi’s party, yes he’s gonna get cucked by the party that ditched him) amongst a few other more obscure ones.

On the other side is the so called ‘centre-left’ coalition, this is mostly centred around the Democratic Party, who, to give you some insight into how ‘left’ they are, they named themselves after the US democrats, specifically to crib on the popularity of Obama. They are polling just shy of FdI, and also have a handful of small parties that group with them, but they can’t pull the kind of support that the ‘centre-right’ can.

Then there’s the ‘third pole’ - everyone else basically, this includes incoherent populists like M5S, single-issue parties and ones too small to really pay attention to, and what passes for communists in Italy.

Oh extra fun is that the right are likely to be only a few seats shy of being able to rewrite the constitution.