True socialism, in Marxist terms, requires the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat. The Mensheviks argued that Russia must first undergo a bourgeois-democratic revolution to develop capitalism, create an industrial proletariat, and only later pursue socialism. Furthermore, The Mensheviks allied with liberal bourgeois parties like the Kadets during the 1905 and 1917 revolutions.

They advocated for parliamentary democracy, gradual reforms, and legal trade unionism within capitalist frameworks. Their approach was fundamentally opportunist and it perpetuated capitalist exploitation. Genuine socialism requires abolition of the bourgeois state, not participation in it.

Their faith in bourgeois democracy and the notion of gradual reform ignores the very core of Marx’s materialist analysis. Capitalism cannot be reformed into socialism because its state exists to protect private property and class rule.

To sum up, their embrace of liberal democracy and refusal to pursue proletarian revolution disqualified them as socialists. Their platform prioritized preservation of capitalist property relations over economic emancipation, the very system socialism seeks to abolish.

oh yeah didn’t notice, I saw there was a new attack will try to find an article about the new one

I love how they’ve tried to bomb Yemen into submission for like a decade now, and Ansar Allah has only gotten stronger in that time.

I find it’s actually better at this point because it just gives results without AI summaries and ads, also I find it’s just straight up better at actually finding what you’re looking for

lmfao menshiviks were not socialists 🤣

Don’t worry once they annex Greenland, that’s all anybody is going to talk about.

They still don’t need to take over all of Ukraine though. They will break the AFU fighting capacity, and then leave western Ukraine to become Europe’s problem I imagine. At that point, Europe is gonna be stuck with a non viable state that will require billions to prop up, and if they don’t do that then they’re gonna have a huge refugee crisis on their hands. Millions of Ukrainian nationalists, who will feel betrayed, flooding in is really the worst possible case scenario for Europe.

I think that’s exactly what it is, Trump is banking on peeling Russia away from China based on “christian values” or some shit. He’s going to be sorely disappointed.

It’s basically a wildlife preserve at this point https://theconversation.com/chernobyl-has-become-a-refuge-for-wildlife-33-years-after-the-nuclear-accident-116303

almost certainly

The whole point of ActivityPub is that you don’t need multiple accounts on different servers. You can use your Lemmy account to talk to people on Mastodon, browse PixelFed, watch PeerTube. Yes, there is sometimes lag in content propagating, and so on, but it’s clearly not a show stopper. My experience using Lemmy and Mastodon is the opposite of terrible.

Seems unlikely given that western Ukraine has a lot of anti-Russian sentiment. The most plausible scenario is that Russia will absorb parts of Ukraine that are pro Russian or neutral, and the rest will be gobbled up by Poland and Romania.

think you misspelled occupying there

It’s no more confusing than using email, and everybody managed to figure that out. You don’t need to know how the nitty gritty of it works. The network effects is a far bigger issue, as you point out, centralized platforms simply have far more content on them.

The betrayal narrative is very much gaining ground in Ukraine right now. Also worth noting how huge amounts of weapons have gone to the black market. One investigation found that only 30-40% of the supplies coming across the border reached its final destination. The nazis in Ukraine have established lots of connections with far right cells across Europe, and that’s likely where a lot of these weapons ended up now.

The territory Russia occupies has been trying to separate from Ukraine for the past 8 years now, there isn’t going to be any insurgency there.

Last I checked Rutte isn’t American, but I guess you’re admitting here that NATO is really just American protection racket and that Europe never actually had any sovereignty.

https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/germany-debates-nuclear-weapons-again-but-now-its-different/

it looks like the Russians have even infiltrated Mark Rutte now https://peertube.mesnumeriques.fr/w/fDpz3pzuboYRxKWnFxP6AA

Thanks for clarifying that you don’t understand what slippery slope fallacy is.