In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

-Michael Parenti

Stalin was right about capital’s triumph over the Soviet experiment bringing in an era of blackest reaction the world over. If humanity were to survive, China will lead us toward a much brighter, equitable, sustainable and peaceful future.

Well at least I live close to a first strike target so I’ll be vaporized in the initial nuclear holocaust. 🤷‍♂️

Thank you!

Paper tigers

Yes that one

I hope you’re right. It’s going to get very ugly very quickly with how desperate the US is going to get in order to cling to the last vestiges of power it can and it will bring untold amounts of destruction before it recedes into the ash heap of history.

China executing bankers…but at what cost??

Is there any information about the July 28th elections that the libs on Reddit keep talking about?

Hopefully Russia and China provided Venezuela with hypersonics

Yankee go home!

The Pentagon committing war crimes? Must be a day that ends in ‘y’.

But at what cost? 🤡🤡🤡

“Capitalism is the best system because of innovation!”

The innovation:

Yankee go home!

Oh no, if it isn’t the consequences of our own action!

Yeah, aren’t you familiar with his seminal work Foundations of Liberalism?

Deng Xiaoping, I’m sorry.

The amount of projection Isn’treal does could power a thousand IMAX theaters for a thousand years.

But…but… eViL PooTin Drumpf….Russian propaganda!!!