Russia is winning now, and hasn’t fielded the “real kit” either. NATO just does not have the productive capacity to field a long term war. I’m not sure why warmongers like yourself keep thinking there’s going to be a grand turning point, in a decade when we look back on this event I fear the warmongers will say they knew the outcome all along.

Fair!

You might find it comfier if you go through my list, but add Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State to the Scientific Socialism section.

I think Hexbear.net counts as a trans instance, it has one of if not the most active trans-specific communities on Lemmy in general and around half the userbase is queer at minimum, according to polling.

Great comment, comrade!

Their goalposts haven’t moved, their strategy was to open with shock and awe and then push for protracted war, taking advantage of surprise. They didn’t expect to topple Ukraine in a week, that’s largely a misquote from the early 2010s.

Russia is achieving its objectives, it’s economy is strengthened by trade with BRICS, and the damage on refineries has been minimal. Ukraine doesn’t want to fight to the last man, support for the war is waning and forced conscription is already in place. The fact that Russia has volunteers from the DPRK, Cuba, etc doesn’t mean they are losing, Ukraine has volunteers from western countries as well.

I hope the Ukrainian people can be free from this war soon, and that means surrender now. I don’t share your bloodlust.

In another wording, present levels of development suit private property more than public property for many industries, and in some areas cooperative ownership works well for agriculture. Building up productive forces ti higher levels of complexity and larger scales makes public ownership and planning more effective. In communist society, these lower levels of development simply do not exist, and thus the basis for earlier property relations doesn’t exist. It’s like asking why feudal kingdoms don’t crop up anymore.

They aren’t trying to take Ukraine, though, and they can progress faster as frontlines are broken through. Pokrovsk, as an example, is currently encircled by Russian forces and will probably be abandoned by Kiev soon, or a large-scale siege will occur.

Whether you’re pro-Ukrainian or not, it’s important to recognize that Ukraine is steadily losing ground and has far less staying power in a protracted war than Russia does. Russia’s advancing slowly and basically forcing a long-term war, which works in their favor.

I’m a communist, though, and all you’ve done is call communists “fascist” and fetishize brutalizing us even when I’ve specifically said that’s unwanted sexual advancement. You haven’t once explained why communism is fascist, I gave a thorough explanation of why Marxists support the use of the state in the interests of achieving classless and stateless society, to which you responded with harrassment.

I wish I began studying Marxism-Leninism earlier. Would’ve been pretty helpful.

You still haven’t explained why communists are “fascists” in your eyes. I’m not an anarchist, sure, but I am a communist, and if you consider yourself a Marxist then you should understand that. You just kind of started threatening everyone and calling everyone fascists for supporting communism, you haven’t explained anything.

I’m not into vore, and there’s no such thing as “instant communism.” I’m into scientific socialism, I’m a Marxist-Leninist. The path to communism is in gradually collectivizing all production and distribution in a post-revolution socialist state, thereby erasing the basis for class and by extension the basis for the state. I’m not an anarchist, and don’t agree with communalism.

I’d appreciate it if you’d stop trying to threaten others with vore and knifeplay. It’s unwanted, we aren’t consenting.

Sure, and I’m a communist. I read Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc, and I volunteer with communist orgs. Your argument makes no sense.

It’s more that the basis of private property is material relations and development giving rise to it, and the state exists to protect that. In collectivized society, where production and distribution are planned, there’s simply no basis to create a new state or new private property, there’s no utility in it whatsoever and no underlying basis for it.

I’m a fascist for being a communist and talking about what’s written by Marx and Engels? You need to look in the mirror.

The SMO started in 2022. In 2014, after the western-backed Euromaidan coup, Crimea was annexed but then there were multiple attempts to resolve things peacefully, called the Minsk Agreements, which Kiev broke both times. In 2014, Donetsk and Luhansk seceded from the new far-right led Ukraine, fastforward to 2022 after a decade of fighting and Russia agrees to go in and resolve things by force.

Since 2022, Russia has steadily been gaining more and more territory, and has nearly completely taken the four oblasts they declared as their targets for annexation. Ukraine has slowly but steadily been losing ground, and NATO has proven to be incapable of matching Russian industrial output. Russia isn’t trying to do a Blitzkreig, they are going carefully to fully demillitarize Ukraine and prevent casualties on their own end. They have the industrial capacity to field a protracted war, so they are playing to their advantage.

Communism is stateless. The basis of statelessness is classless society, which requires collectivizing production. To abolish the state immediately into fractured communalism is the opposite of how classless society is achieved, and is the very subject of books like Anti-Dühring.

They are steadily achieving all of their stated objectives for the SMO. Russia isn’t trying to do a Marvel-style total destruction of Ukraine like you see in hollywood depictions of war.

Marx and Engels, and those who follow Marxism, are not “fashy.” You cannot immediately abolish the state and at the same time establish fully collectivized production and distribution. Anarchism is primarily about communalization of production. Marxism is primarily about collectivization of production.

When I say “communalization,” I mean anarchists propose horizontalist, decentralized cells, similar to early humanity’s cooperative production but with more interconnection and modern tech. When I say collectivization, I mean the unification of all of humanity into one system, where production and distribution is planned collectively to satisfy the needs of everyone as best as possible.

For anarchists, collectivized society still seems to retain the state, as some anarchists conflate administration with the state as it represents a hierarchy. For Marxists, this focus on communalism creates inter-cell class distinctions, as each cell only truly owns their own means of production, giving rise to class distinctions and thus states in the future.

For Marxists, socialism must have a state, a state can only wither with respect to how far along it has come in collectivizing production and therefore eliminating class. All states are authoritarian, but we cannot get rid of the state without erasing the foundations of the state: class society, and to do so we must collectivize production and distribution globally. Socialist states, where the working class wields its authority against capitalists and fascists, are the means by which this collectivization can actually happen, and are fully in-line with Marx’s beliefs. Communism as a stateless, classless, moneyless society is only possible post-socialism.

Abolishing the state overnight would not create the kind of society Marxists advocate for advancing towards, and if anything, would result in the resumption of competition and the resurgance of capitalism if Marx and Engels predictions are correct.

Fascism is capitalism violently asserting itself in crisis. It has nothing to do with Marxism beyond fascism being anti-communist.