Beria may have been

That’s a big ‘may’, no?

That said, I did not undermine that user’s mental condition, I emphasized how we should be critical in regards to Psychiatry.

You told a user that they should not worry about their diagnosis because you do not trust psyciatric diagnosis. These are not the same things. You should not be trying to inform someone’s diagnosis or treatment even if by the critisism of psyciatry generally. You have not seriously investigated medical or psychological practice to the level where you should be considered qualified to give others medical advice, because if you did you would know you shouldn’t be telling people what to think the moment you learn what they’ve been diagnosed with.

That’s entirely reasonable. Just don’t tell people what to think of the medical professionals treating them. You don’t have the credentials and even if you did you don’t know people on the internet well enough to be undermining their diagnosis.

I don’t have any good articles on the NDP but I can tackle the CPC part. CPC has been revisionist since the 50’s Buck leadership hands down if not earlier. There are lots of Communist academics who have published examinations of it’s fall but I like this one. It lists the Bolshevization of the party as a major loss which fragmented the party and lead to a divide between the leadership and the party’s bases of support when it took parliamentary stances.

Ferous McKean’s work is the most important historical exposition of the rise of Canadian revisionism and definitely worth reading.

Red Star is the most confusing publisher. They will refuse to publish many texts or editions on the basis that they are revisionist and then they go and publish books written by the dude who claimed he killed Stalin. Jeez

It’s amazing that this is the case in Ukraine, where singing the Ukraine soviet anthem (or any of the anthems) in public is punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

State exists to maintain class dictatorship. The state is made up of institutions like the military, intelligence, law enforcement, etc. (Most of the coercive things that the people don’t get a say in).

The Bourgeois classes can use the liberal democratic state or the fascist state to rule over the people, while one is more ruthless, both are forms of control wherein the bourgeois run politics and maintain their domination of the proletariat. The bourgeois require a state to A) maintain their local domestic rule over the working class and B) protect themselves from other states in the world system/

The dictatorship of the proletariat is different. The working class builds a state to crush their oppressors, so the state changes character and is used to A) maintain and progressively liquidate the domestic bourgeoisie as a class and B) protect themselves and the international working class from bourgeois states.

Once the class contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeois starts to resolve and the bourgeois starts to vanish away, the coercive elements of the proletarian state slowly become redundant/unnecessary and are disassembled as the proletariat redirects labour power where it is needed.

As a result, the state “withers away,” leaving behind a society governed by humanity as one class, which does not require organs of power for the purposes of class domination. The government serves a dominantly administrative rather than financial/military function.

Hope this helps.

Being apprehensive is one thing but I don’t think there’s anything skeptical about telling someone opening up about their professional diagnosis that their diagnosis shouldn’t concern them. That’s not something you should be telling people you don’t know lightly.

A diagnosis isn’t a bad thing. A diagnosis just give you a language to convey to others what you’ve been experiencing.

I hope you feel better in the future. Therapy(CBT, etc.) and medication are overwhelmingly likely to improve quality of life drastically for the vast majority of people suffering from depression. I know first hand that it’s really hard to believe that when you’re there, but I hope you stick with it.

-John

China does something bad? Socialism. China did something good? Capitalism. -Fox News