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67 posts and 10 image replies omitted.>>2487171>The Soviet Union's legal system was subordinate to the Soviet Communist Party. Legislation was debated and approved by party leaders, then passed to the Supreme Soviet for approval. The court system ensured party control over judicial decisions. Judges were selected by party officials and were usually party members. The procuracy, a nationwide organization, ensured law enforcement and reported to the party leadership.>After the revolution, the regime placed itself above the law, granting the Communist Party head powers similar to the tsars. The government replaced elected officials, suppressed opposing speech, and eliminated suspected enemies without trial. The New Economic Policy in 1921 restored the legal basis for the economy, but Stalin later ended it, asserting central control. Soviet law became a tool for implementing party policy and economic planning.https://www.britannica.com/topic/Soviet-lawmore information concerning structue:
>The government was led by a Chairman, commonly referred to as "Premier" by outside observers. The chairman was nominated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and elected by delegates at the first plenary session of a newly elected Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. High government officials, such as first deputy premiers, deputy premiers, government ministers, or heads of state committees or commissions, were chosen by the premier and confirmed by the Supreme Soviet.>After the promulgation of the 1936 Constitution, under Stalin, the Council of People's Commissars was defined as the Soviet government and the "highest executive and administrative organ of state power". However, at the same time, the Constitution also stripped the Council of People's Commissars of its ability to enact laws, and instead confined it to issuing "decrees and regulations on the basis and in execution of the laws currently in force". Legislative power was shifted to the Supreme Soviet and its Presidium, who alone could alter laws, having replaced the Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee respectively.>Lenin had sought to create a governmental structure that was independent of the party apparatus. Grigory Zinoviev, however, maintained that the Politburo was the principal body of the state, and from Stalin’s tenure until Mikhail Gorbachev’s, there existed an informal system of government by which appointment of People's Commissars came to be made by the Political Bureau (Politburo) of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, and ratified later by the Council of People's Commissars.https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/index.htm >>2381106The difficulty I experience in relating to my parents is rooted not merely in personal incompatibility, but in the structural and ideological conditions that shape our consciousness. My parents, products of a STEM-oriented, capitalist milieu, operate within a worldview that valorizes technical expertise, market logic, and small-liberal pragmatism. Their positions as business owners situate them firmly within the apparatus of the bourgeois order, reproducing its norms, values, and hierarchies in daily life.
In contrast, my trajectory has been shaped by a humanistic and aesthetic sensibility, cultivated through the study of the humanities and photography, alongside a critical consciousness informed by Marxist theory. My intellectual and ethical orientation challenges the premises of capitalist production and the commodification of labor that my parents embody. As a result, our interactions are marked by an irreconcilable tension: their pragmatic, profit-oriented reasoning clashes with my critique of the socio-economic structures they implicitly defend.
The emotional discomfort I experience—the sense of claustrophobia and alienation in their presence—reflects a deeper phenomenon of ideological alienation. Just as the worker is estranged from the products of their labor under capitalism, I find myself estranged from the ideological and cultural “products” of my upbringing. Their worldview, shaped by the imperatives of capital and technical rationality, renders invisible the values, desires, and meanings that animate my own existence. The gulf between us is thus not merely generational or personal, but structural: it is a reflection of the ways in which class, ideology, and the relations of production mediate human relationships, even within the family.
In this sense, my rebellion is not a mere affective response, but a dialectical assertion of an alternative subjectivity—a refusal to subsume my consciousness under the imperatives of capitalist rationality and a commitment to cultivating forms of being and expression that challenge and transcend the ideological contours of my parental milieu.
>>2450880there is no problem with voting for socdems individually, but it shouldnt be the aim of your political action and rhetoric, because they will never bring about socialism (either because they will betray the cause, or the system will prevent them from doing anything radical, or they will get couped), and entering an electoralist logic will cause your party to become a bunch of opportunist who will compromise and betray to get positions or small concessions and loose its connection and popularity with the masses. Can clearly be seen with some of the old euro communists parties (in france for example, where they're not even the most radical left anymore and lost all their supports and principles)
>>2486189most rapes by far are done by relatives and closes ones, and arabs rapists are still a tiny minority of arabs, so focusing on immigration to stop rape is just anti immigrant policy rather than anti rape policy. Also notice how the people pushing this usually dont care about rape committed by locals and dont support actual anti rape policy (like dedicated training for police, sexual education and such)
>>2487198why the fuck would you quote britannica on the soviet union
>>2491028nope, there is actually two kind of supporter of multipolarity
there are the nationalist and national porkies of the periphery, who have understood that the west empire will try to keep them down to keep their advantages and exploit the rest of the world, and support multipolarity because breaking the hegemony is in their interest, and they are anti imperialist out of pure immediate self interest
then there are the actual communist, they are actually understanding that building communism is a world historical process, and that nobody build a revolution in a vacuum, but in a real national and global context, and in the west, the context of being part of the hegemonic anticommunist US led empire still exploiting the world is crucial to understanding the situation and is the primary obstacle to revolution and socialism
ofc, a lot of morons pretend to be leftist but actually suck up to the west empire and spend their energy spreading its propaganda and attacking its enemies and concepts challenging the status quo, and even here come shit up threads and troll in a pathetic attempt to defend imperialism "from the left". I suspect you're one of them
in terms of reading marx (beginner):
- on the jewish question (1844)
- german ideology chapter 1 (1844)
- communist manifesto (1848)
- eighteenth brumaire (1852)
- grundrisse, introduction (1857)
- grundrisse, fragment on machines (1858)
- zur kritik preface (1859)
- theories of surplus value chapter 4 (1863)
- value, price and profit (1865)
- capital vol. 1, prefaces, chapters 1-11, 19, 26-33 (1867)
- marx-engels letter, 11 december (1869)
- marx-meyer letter, 9 april (1870)
- civil war in france (1871)
- critique of the gotha programme (1875)
- marx-zasulich correspondence (1881)
- capital vol. 2 preface (1885)
- capital vol. 3 preface, chapters 1-3, 8-10, 13-14, 25, 36, 48, 52, supplement by engels (1894)
>>2497155its not logical, but here are some thoughts based on my experience.
society says wealth = success. being on welfare or unemployed (not in the wealthy sense of living off passive income) means you are a failure. not to mention other reactionary spooks floating around around like man = provider for the family.
the welfare centre is usually designed to break you down.
seeing immigrants at the welfare centre. its easier to think these other people are scum and don't deserve it like i do. than thinking hey lets build solidarity.
like i once saw someone come to pick up his welfare in a cab. everyone was like wtf this mf thinks he can roll up in a taxi while everyone takes the bus. but a more logical explanation might be that he was running late, and the penalty for being late to the interview (missing months of potential payments )was worse than taking the hit from getting an expensive taxi. but everyone assumes that guy was cheating or doing something wrong.
being at home a lot, staying online, (algorithms are more likely to promote reactionary content than leftist ones) while drinking heavily leads to reactionism. i heard quite a few people started moderating their beliefs when they slowed the drinking.
>>2497121Probably one of the relentless /pol/ spamming schizos. I remember 3 of them:
- The guy who spams the Alunya nudes. He's been ban evading and going at it for several years by now, without explanation.
- Some poster who was called virginia anon or something like that. It was a nazi who always typed in a broken format and used the same poorly edited pics as justification for his ideology, and always argued in bad faith. He spent years coming here but eventually disappeared.
- The thing noticer: The guy whose posts were 99% random twitter nonsense you'd never heard of. He disappeared too.
>>2502559sublation media
why theory
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