Navalny is an oligarchal puppet, a fake opposition for Putin.
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Joseph Evans
Thomas Russell
Neither does kings and capitalists own everything, boyo.
They have a bureaucrat of managers who own things, like Stalin.
Nolan Smith
Source? Can you just leave the board already?
Anthony Murphy
First, that would be capitalist reform, not revolution.
Second, they aren't opening up to foreign business, the mcdonalds shit was hearsay from a random south korean envoy.
Carson Parker
No he is a Macron-esque lib who wants to restore the Empire in the name of freedom or some bs. His entire angle is to get Russia stronk so it can reclaim dominion over slavdom. However he grows closer with the Sobchak clan: aka the oligarchs who got Putin his first gig in politics in the first place.
Brayden Cruz
inb4 McDonald in Pongyang
inb4 KJU i.e. the McDonald man himself shows up
inb4 WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Wyatt Nguyen
Go to the north korean thread and get some education
Adrian Baker
Lords and managers
False. Stalin did not appoint managers, they were locally elected. Don't talk before you study, all that's coming out of your mouth is shit.
Educated yourself ->
The USSR was not democratic in the traditional western sense, because it democratic means "Mob Rule", the USSR was a Polity of worker soviets, which started on a local level, and built up to the federal government. It is a Cooperative Federalist system in that sense. No soviet leaders until Yeltsin were appointed power based on bloodline, political position or that kind of tripe, even Stalin was elected.
departments.bucknell.edu
departments.bucknell.edu
londonprogressivejournal.com
Stepehn Kotkin - Magnetic Mountain (good overview of the party/state tensions during industrialisation, has a big section of the later purges, policing, the NKVD etc.)
J. Arch Getty - The Origins of the Great Purge (very much about structures, a bit outdated and contested, but I think a good overview of the administrative purges and what local party politics could be like - the later book The Road to Terror with Getty and Naumov is better in terms of the origins of the terror etc… but less specific about local power politics.)
Sheila Fitzpatrick - Everyday Stalinism (this is more so about what it was like to live in the era than about structures and such but does a good job of explaining the role of the party in everyday life and how people felt about it all)
Patrick Sloan Soviet Democracy: docs.google.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
gen.lib.rus.ec
Nolan Flores
OK, user, a really long fucking post for everywhere is fake democracy, my USSR is true democracy.
And no, the lords and capitalists did not personally select every managers either, and that alone does not matter, they still fucking collectivize.