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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 5h

Oh are we doing "my generation is the only one immune to propaganda" discourse again?
Cause there are a LOT of millennials who went insane on the computer.

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 11h

you cant go "oh we need trans unity right now stop dogpiling" immediately after saying something obviously incendiary btw

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 10h

I keep seeing people invoke the "Horseshoe Theory" about leftism and I think we can go over this on stream even - 15 minute less - because it's actually not politics at all, it's a rhetorical trick!

I'll go over it briefly here!

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

Rougeoisie (noun)
A portmanteau of rouge and bourgeoisie, refers to the beneficiaries of exploited labor in nominally "communist" regimes.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

This is "the capitalists are job creators" logic. The state did not evenly distribute the wealth, they operated as a pseudo-bourgeoisie
This *actually* started because you saw me call authcoms right wing and strawmanned me as a liberal.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

I have, have you?

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

bsky.app/profile/zodl... The USSR controlled the means of production, which is the definition of communism according to you.
Did they achieve communism or not?

Ranking Z @zodle77.bsky.social · 11h

State control of the means of production is the definition of communism 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

So the USSR *was* communist (by your definition, state control of the means of production)
But also, communism has never happened, because, why?

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

So the people in control of the state (and thus the means of production) were NOT a separate class from the workers, who did not have control of the means of production and whose labor was exploited by the state in much the same manner as a wage worker under any other capitalist system?

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

is your brain made of rocks

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

Okay, so communism is just state capitalism?

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

No, you do not understand the difference between capitalism and communism.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 10h

Communism is WORKER control of the means of production, friend.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

Check out this idiot

Ranking Z @zodle77.bsky.social · 11h

State control of the means of production is the definition of communism 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

Forwarding this to all liberal trans women

Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

Ari, if you're reading this, there is still time to abandon liberalism. You don't have to go down the path of becoming Brianna Two.

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may @maysuser.name · 11h

swiftieism as we conceive of it in america is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. there is no designer era under communism, i'm sorry.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

Within the USSR, the state, functioning as the bourgeoisie, operated as essentially a nation-spanning capitalist firm, maintaining control of the means of production through force and exploiting the labor of the workers in exchange for wages.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

Epic strawman bro

Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

Within the USSR, the state, functioning as the bourgeoisie, operated as essentially a nation-spanning capitalist firm, maintaining control of the means of production through force and exploiting the labor of the workers in exchange for wages.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

I've read plenty. The USSR was capitalist.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

He was not a communist in anything but the name of the party, and he was a fascist.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

The USSR was a capitalist state.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

No, but Stalin was a fascist.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

This is correct. Authoritarian "leftists," such as the bolsheviks, are not leftists, and *can* in fact be fascists.

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Alice Faust @alicefaust.bsky.social · 11h

It is possible, and quite easy, to maintain the aesthetics of leftism while being a fascist.

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