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>>2265187
yes but zelonsko is saying he won't go if there is no ceasefire
or maybe he is, his quote changes every 10 minutes.

>look at those attrition rates bro im gonna coom

>>2265117
You're probably that reverse Wehraboo faggot who believes the Red Army consisted of 10 superhuman divisions who each killed millions of zerg rushing enemy troops with bare hands while suffering zero injuries and casualities, so i have no interest in getting into an argument with you. Anyway
>Germany 100 million
>USSR 200 million
2x bigger and the USSR was already a highly industrialized socialist power in 1941, it didn't became the 2nd dominant world power on 9th May 1945 out of a vacuum.
In 1941 the Wehrmacht attacked with 150 divisions consisting of about 3 million German soldiers plus 700k allied foreigners. The USSR defended with 145 divisions consisting of about 3 million soldiers. Fall Blau (summer offensive of 1942) fielded about 1.5 million axis troops, including Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Romanians. The USSR defended with about 2.3 million troops at that point.
This is widely agreed upon by A LOT of historians. It doesn't take anything away from Shukov's and Stalin's genious warfare at all.

>>2265245
Attacker has initiative so he gets to choose where to attack while defender has to cover every direction, though

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>it's another sanction episode


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How do we seriously define fascism?

<Anti-communism
Liberals do it.
<Anti-organized labor
Liberals do it.
<Colonialism
Liberals do it.
<Genocide
Liberals do it.

What, instead of the police beating your ass, it's paramilitary thugs? Instead of parliamentary elections, you have a fascist party dictatorship? But is this really a meaningful difference to liberalism?

How do we seriously define fascism?
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>>2262528
If we're defining it as a government:
An Authoritarian state with a Corporatist Economic model combined with intense nationalism seeking to maintain its hegemony via imperialism, ethno-statism, racism, authoritarianism, patriarchy, and anti-democratic/ anti-socialist policies.

>>2265186
*totalitarian state

The Comintern concisely defined communism nearly 100 years ago but still people insist on lib definitions ("Fascism is when xenophobia") or (wrongly) identifying fascism with the petite bourgeoisie.
Make no mistake, the petite bourgeois are drawn to fascism, but they're mere foot soldiers in the hands of finance and industrial capital, which are the driving forces, as they were in Germany, Italy and Japan.

This and the genocidal expansionist violence is what sets fascism apart from ordinary liberalism. Fascism is what happens when capital is incapable of growing except through violence. And to no surprise, fascism coincided with energy and resource crises in (upstart) competing imperialist powers.
It's also why fascism isn't mere anti-communsim either. Though all fascism is anticommunist.
>>2262787
Definition like these are idealist, because they pretend fascism follows from "ideas".. The ideological content of various "fascisms" is contradictory nonsense. What matter is what it entails structurally and terms of actions.
>>2264898
Trump and his other oligarch backers are fash not least because they're motivated by capitalist crisis (including competition with China) and anti communism.

tl;dr; stop being idealists

>>2265115
I don't know about Poland but as for Yugoslavia fascism never took off. The last prime minister before the outbreak of WW2 in Europe Milan Stojadinović was in charge of a fascist coalition-party (Yugoslav Radical Union) which wished to model ᴉuᴉlossnW and seek greater economic integration with Germany but
<The British historian Richard Crampton wrote that the basis of Stojadinović's power rested on "political jobbery" and corruption as the JRZ functioned more as a patronage machine of a type very common to the Balkans rather than the fascistic mass movement that Stojadinović had intended.
<In late 1938 he was re-elected, albeit with a smaller margin than expected, failed in pacifying the Croats, raised a military-like legion of his own followers ('Green Shirts'), and did not formulate any clear political programme, providing the regent Paul with a welcomed pretext upon which to replace Stojadinović, on 5 February 1939, with Dragiša Cvetković.[46] Prince Paul had by early 1939 come to see the ambitious Stojadinović with his dreams of being a fascist leader, as a threat to his own power.[46].
And Stojadinović was thus removed from power by the prince regent, detained, and given to the British to be kept in exile for the entirety of WW2. The Yugoslav Radical Union wasn't banned but with the disappearance of Stojadinović it ceases to be mentioned, presumably falling into obscurity.

The Croatian anti-Yugoslav Ustashe, meanwhile, never came to power before the Axis occupation and partition of Yugoslavia. In occupied Serbia, the Government of National Salvation was a Quisling regime without support from Serbians. Serbian fascist Dimitrije Ljotić and his party is famously remembered as being politically irrelevant.
<Founded in 1935, it received considerable German financial and political assistance during the interwar period and participated in the 1935 and 1938 Yugoslav parliamentary elections, in which it never received more than 1 percent of the popular vote.

In summary, outside the Ustashe (and only with the help of the Axis), there was no serious fascist current in Yugoslavia.

>>2265186
retarded liberal definition as expected from YPG flag


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Yeah we aren't seeing a revolution or social democracy, we are just gonna get gradual radicalisation until some dickhead puts an end to british "democracy" once and for all. Anyways here's Wonderwall.
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>>2265232
Nah its creating a node of income in a foreign state.

never thought we'd get a rivers of blood speech by the labour party but hey here we are

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>>2265236
would he have voted for sir Keir starmer's Labour Party ?

>>2265246
Judas was paid. He was making a sacrifice.

>>2265232
means of production are fixed capital, so it can circulate, but needs labour to generate surplus value.


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Pseuds really need to stop bringing up "dialectics", "dialectical materialism" or any other philosophy crap when talking about communism or marxism.

Marx: philosophy is religion rendered into thought and hence to be condemned. One has to leave philosophy aside and devote oneself to the study of the actual world, etc. etc. (1) As for the so-called dialectical method. Here are (2) Hegel. (3 & 4) Marx on Hegel. And (5) Marx on his own "method". Marx is very clear here: he does not have a method. A scientific investigation has to "appropriate the material in detail, analyze all forms of development and trace out their inner connections" rather than starting out with a ready made schema and distorting the material to fit it.

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>One has to “leave philosophy aside” (Wigand, p. 187, cf. Hess, Die letzten Philosophen, p. 8), one has to leap out of it and devote oneself like an ordinary man to the study of actuality, for which there exists also an enormous amount of literary material, unknown, of course, to the philosophers. When, after that, one again encounters people like Krummacher or “Stirner”, one finds that one has long ago left them “behind” and below. Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03e.htm

> Feuerbach’s great achievement is:
>(1) The proof that philosophy is nothing else but religion rendered into thought and expounded by thought, i.e., another form and manner of existence of the estrangement of the essence of man; hence equally to be condemned;
>(2) The establishment of true materialism and of real science, by making the social relationship of “man to man” the basic principle of the theory;
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm
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>>2265205
Metaphysics, Julius!!!

>>2265237
"metaphysics" is a scary word, but it just refers to first principles.
>>2265230
>Are you saying law of value wont be abolished cant be abolished?
read again:
<marx regards value as the metaphysical basis of commodity exchange
abolish commodity exchange and you abolish value. this is also why value must be understood as a market construct rather than a natural category.
>>2265233
yes. aristotle, for example, perceives an equality in commodity exchange, but cannot identify a common substance, which to marx, is human labour (value);
<"the great thinker who was the first to analyse [.] the form of value. I mean Aristotle […] What is that equal something, that common substance, which admits of the value of the beds being expressed by a house? […] human labour. The secret of the expression of value, namely, that all kinds of labour are equal and equivalent, because, and so far as they are human labour in general, cannot be deciphered, until the notion of human equality has already acquired the fixity of a popular prejudice. […] The brilliancy of Aristotle’s genius is shown by this alone, that he discovered, in the expression of the value of commodities, a relation of equality. The peculiar conditions of the society in which he lived, alone prevented him from discovering what, “in truth,” was at the bottom of this equality [capital vol. 1, ch. 1]"

>>2265241
Okay. I just thought value is when everyones labour is considered as equal or something. And here you are talking about metaphysics

>>2265244
well, labour was not considered equal in aristotle's time (due to slavery). that is part of marx's point. even when it wasnt considered equal, it still gained an abstract equality as value in exchange. marx speaks a bit later on about this;
<"whenever, by an exchange, we equate as values our different products, by that very act, we also equate, as human labour, the different kinds of labour expended upon them. We are not aware of this, nevertheless we do it. Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is. It is value, rather, that converts every product into a social hieroglyphic [capital vol. 1, ch. 1, sec. 4]"
value has these intrinsic properties to marx.

>>2265248
So, in aristotles time it wasnt considered equal but they without knowing it treated everyones labour as equal by commodity exchange


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>>2265222
Is this essentially America accepting defeat? They can no longer say they are the most powerful economy?
Now watch, their only cope now is their military strength and technology. The Arms Race will escalate.

>>2265226
Nothing Will Happen. 100 years of mild humiliation forever.

>>2265238
Softpower can't last forever, NEHfag. The Capitalist will eventually not be able to retain his profits without demanding ever tougher sanctions against the Chinese.

>>2265239
Sizzlecucks will never see this happening they so desperately wish to happen. Its OVER. There are NO HAPPENINGS WITHIN YOUR LIFETIME.

>>2265242
It could happen in 10,000 years time, I don't care. I'll wish for it to happen every day until I am dead.


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As a Serb, I am sick and tired of explaining to Westerners that no, Croats and Bosniaks and Kosovar Albanians were not the "good guys" of the 90s wars.

But also as a Serb, I am sick and tired of the perpetual reactionary victimhood and chauvinism of Serbs regarding the wars.

No, as a communist I say FUCK NATO, but also it's a bit like being German and complaining about the Allied bombing of Germany in WW2. Nobody gives a shit. I guess people give a shit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I'd argue that's thanks to Japan's cultural capital being greater than the knowledge of Westerners regarding what Imperial Japan did.

Anyway, nobody was fighting to save Tito's socialism (the revisionists/opportunists already took over by that point, some of the younger ones still in politics today), nor was anybody fighting to preserve Yugoslavia. It was a chain of reactionary wars start to finish. And it could have been prevented. People died for what? Nothing.
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All the 'recognition' you receive is fake and perfunctory. The people of the Third World, plundered and exploited, curse you behind your back. Your Jesus is disgusted and ashamed of you, and your NATO 'friends' mock you in private, knowing you'll be among the first to die when Russia invades.

The people are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of class struggle have enabled them to detect imperialist apologists with ruthless efficiency. Even those liberals who disguise themselves with talk of 'freedom and democracy' appear uncanny and unnatural in the eyes of the masses. Your glorification of Nazis and war is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to drag a drunken Ukrainian into the draft office, he'll turn tail and flee the moment he catches a whiff of your diseased, twisted stench of 'sacrificing one's life for Zelensky and NATO.'

Eventually, it will all become too much to bear—you'll buy a combat helmet, strap on your dog tags, hang them around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss of World War III. Your parents will find out you died under a Russian or Chinese missile—heartbroken, yet relieved, knowing their child no longer has to endure being exploited in a factory, humiliated by their boss, or chained to a lifelong mortgage. They'll bury you under a mound of dirt with a flag stuc, and from that day on, every passerby will know that an imperialist war casualty lies there. Your body will rot and return to dust, and the only legacy you leave behind, will without a doubt, be used by imperialists to glorify 'national honor' and brainwash the next recruit.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

>>2264492
>Isn't Malagurski a right wing conspiracy theorist now?
I wouldn't be surprised if he was. A lot of Serbs in general today are right-wing conspiracy theorists. It's completely normalized. I recall this one book about the supposed Islamic takeover of Germany that was popular somewhere in the 2000s or maybe early 2010s (it was basically a book about the Great Replacement conspiracy theory before it was even called that). This only got turbocharged with smartphones and the Trump era.
Our right-wingers are unironically like the Russians in Call of Duty if you're familiar with the portrayal. A living parody.


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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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>>2262869
>why do…
Man, who cares?

>>2262873
I do. I thought maybe they had a good reason for it and wanted to know if anyone could enlighten me on the matter.

Some Trump-supporting friend is convinced that manufacturing will return to the USA. Wondering what you guys predict will happen under these tariffs.

Whats a historically progressive?

>>2264397
what is the mechanism by whicn they think manufacturing can return to the USA?


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What happens when (or if) Mahmud Abbas dies? I mean, hes still kicking around at almost 90 now. He might drop dead at any point. Will his successor collaborate even more with Israel? Will it throw the PA into crisis? Will there be a smooth transition? What if it happens while the gaza genocide is still ongoing? Hes pretty much ruling over the PA like a corrupt king in his castle so if he dies that might ruffle up some feathers.
It seems like the gulfies have started to make their move by coercing/convincing abbas into creating some kind of mock title called "vice president of Palestine" (which in actuality has no real power) to get Hussein Al-Sheikh into position as a possible successor. Either way any new president would technically need to be elected by the Palestinian people. Although an election at this point in time seems highly unlikely..

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Brooooooo this is about trump and Israel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/12/trump-netanyahu-middle-east-trip/

Food security experts say Gaza is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and end its campaign.

>>2264349
>>2264359
Hamas might. Don't forget they are islamist retards.

>>2265214
You'd have to be extremely retarded to suddenly like the man who promoted settler murder and intensified occupation in your own strip. Reactionary islamist or not.


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My opinion of them is extremely negative.

Look up what they did to Moroccans in the North and what they did to Canary Islands. Complete genocide, they have colonies in the Maghreb to this day as well. Also complete hypocrite who expelled all their Muslims/Arabs along with Jews but are only allowing Jews to have a right to return apologizing for the Reconquista but all the North Africans are left out, when it was them who built that civilization. They can't even give back Ceuta and Melilla while crying about the Brits in Gibraltar.

They have done horrible things to African and Native Americans, crimes against a group of people that has rarely if ever been matched in human history

I find the civilizations contribution to the culture and human civilization to be much lower than what their grip extended.

Very fascist in mistreating their own ethnic minorities (Catalonians, Galicians and Basques) and have a similar enemy mentality to the entire Arab world to this day

They're an unproductive welfare economy where the people enjoy a standard of living much higher than they contribute, with high unemployment. Living from EU subsides and tourism. I didn't think it was very clean either.

I also read it is a country with the highest amount of infidelity and promiscuity. Such loose morals are not attractive to me either

Also the language in Spain sucks compared to how the Latinos speak it, I found the food to not be very good, the Spanish Empire was even more brutal than the English one, the style/aesthetic doesn't please me, etc. the only positive thing I can say about it is that their descendant countries in the New World have produced very vibrant and diverse locales, only possible because of their abandonment of the more problematic Spanish influence
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>>2263948
i guess exterminating the entire native population in the caribbeans by enslaving them too hard is historically progressive. and having the highest slave death rate (together with brazil, another mediterranoid colony)

All the spaniards that I know that defend the Empire and use USSR aesthetics are Ziggers. The same cucks that wave the modern Russian flag on Victory Day parades.

>>2264521
Zigger

*yawn*

>>2265208
nationalism should be a bannable offense.
everytime the word "historically progressive" is used in this website it literally just means "my genocidal empire is le better than your genocidal empire because… aesthetics!" imagine being this retarded and illiterate.


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