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Dear comrades,

School has me reading criminal law and included economist aspect: Marxist theory on punishment. Anyway they keep quoting this Otto kirchheimer as a marxist writer, but it seems that guy worked for the predecessor of the CIA.... So obviously I'm very skeptical about it.

Anyone of you have any good sources on Marxist take on criminal law/punishment

This is my current MINIMAL understanding of German politics:

AfD- THE fascist party in Germany. Absolute dickheads BSW- Corporatists...? They seem incredibly odd. Maybe nazbol? CDU, SPD- Bog standard neolib right wing twats, don't know anything else. Die Linke- Demsocs? Haven't heard much about them, but know they're not commies, obv. KPD, DKP, SGP, MLPD- No idea. Assuming DKP is nazbol because the name

Can i get some help? Don't know who i should look into/support.

One of my buddies is a hardened anti communist who thinks communists only create famines and genocides. He linked the wiki page of the Kazakh famine and I can only assume its the most biased crap out there. I need sources about what really happenned and caused the famine. Thank you comrades!

China campits exist. There are fantastic sources of information about China who are not even remotely Marxist and just support China for whatever reason. I am wondering what percentage of China supporters do you think that applies to?

Trade unions seem like a handy way for workers to organise, albeit with some exceptions, like say cop unions.

• What place do they have in socialist society? They exist in at least Cuba and China, but Solidarity in Poland enjoyed CIA funding.
• What benefits do they offer workers in these societies that aren't already offered by a socialist state, or do they serve a different role?
• How does one convince people of the benefit of trade unions in spite of their fear of corruption of said unions in non-socialist states?

Again, I could be going about it all wrong but yeah.

Thanks!

I wanted more sources so I can read more details about this. From the economic perspective, I have the following source: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428

However, I am missing how the dictatorship of the proletariet works in this country.

I'm really getting tired of vapid historical analysis which completely sidelines any notions of class, or literally anything other than the mainstream misconstruing of history though great man theory

Opinion on the book "The Shortest History of the Soviet Union" by Sheila Fitzpatrick ? It has lots of good reviews online, but I am not confident in the opinions of those giving the reviews.

So here is my dilemma. We import all food and goods, too small for agriculture. Our main economy is built on financial services and tourism mostly. Our social safety net and most of our let's say, liberal left leaning policies are being eroded as time goes by, which is not ideal, but is still better than nothing I guess.

However, since we trade our service based economy for essentially everything else, how does socialism help a nation so dependent on the world around it being capitalist to survive?

title. Both the USA and its lapdog Israel are easily the most evil, cancerous countries to exist today, and almost everyone knows why.

Personally, I'd have to nominate Japan. Extremely xenophobic country, high suicide rates, exploitative work culture, etc.. Furthermore, as a Chinese, the fact that they still have shrines for their war criminals and whitewash their past is beyond deplorable, not to mention that right-wing anime fascists that simp for that country exacerbate my disdain furthermore.

Is he actually the fraud that he's been made to be? With all the red scare-esque balderdash that's being thrown around, i really can't make anything out.

I'm wondering what the theoretical differences are between soldiers implicated in imperialist conflicts (for natural resources, whatever) versus soldiers implicated in peacekeeping and/or solely national defense, such as Austria, Switzerland or Ireland.

This isn't a "not all soldiers" post by the way, but is it considered there's a distinction?

Given conditions under which soldiers are recruited in the United States and presumably others are predatory, how are individuals from say, the Austrian Bundesheer (conscript service) distinct from that of other nations and the conditions under which they're recruited and so on.

Thanks and apologies for any lack of clarity.

I'm confused

So far, I've heard that accumulation, technological advancement, and thus concentration of capital from the previous capitalist economy would leave its print on the later modern socialist economies

But other than that, I've realized I've never looked much into what distinguishes AES's economic management, mainly of state-owned enterprises, from capitalist economy's management, in concrete policy

I can understand co-operatives, but such orgs don't necessarily make up socialism, as you guys would say

I haven't read it and I want to though I don't feel like ordering yet another book as I have done so a few times in the past weeks.

I found a pdf which seems to be the book but I also found that other versions are longer/have more pages.

Anyone that can provide me with a link?

I'm watching the DNC, and it's made me even more aware of the power of liberal bourgeois democracies to let out a little revolutionary energy whenever it gets close to the edge, through concessional policies, like New Deal policies or whatever Kamala might do if she wins, or even the act of voting and campaigning itself. Do they have to go through a fascism phase first, or has there been a liberal bourgeois democracy that has successfully had a socialist revolution? Will it take new theory to figure it out?

I want to help in any way I can, but I don't have any skills aside from video games

I know it has something to do with imports and exports