Serf emancipation didn't go as smoothly as you imagine, that yesterday's serfs up and started owning land for free and becoming le self-made entrepreneurs. Serfs were forced to buy out their land which for the majority meant that serfom de facto continued until 1905 - when all debt was lifted from fear of peasant uprisings. To become a kulak you pretty much had to be an exploiter and have some sort of unfair privilege. It's not like the Bolsheviks invented the term, "kulak" was already used among the peasantry, as a pejorative, meaning - tight fisted, someone squeezing the life out of other peasants etc. Many or most of them were con-men or violent slave drivers
Stalinism was good
Noah Gonzalez
Ian Murphy
please tell us OP how this is not literal bloodsucking?
Tyler Hill
are you some kind of a fucking retard
Liam Moore
well
social democracy is related to communism
Lenin was one, the founders of the spartakusbund were social democrats
and communists repeatedly engaged in popular fronts with them
there's a little more to "what is socialism", and even those promoting social ownership can still effectively work against it, just as those who oppose social ownership as "premature", like social democrats did, wanting to delay revolution and socialism to some other day far in the future, even if they appear to be genuine like Maduro, are maybe related to socialist branches, but obviously opposed to its practical implementation and carrying out the struggle, promoting opportunism and parliamentarist appeasement
just thought i might add this
Daniel Nguyen
And, like their petty bourgeois compatriots, they absolutely deserved it and where they still exist they deserve for it to happen to them again
Angel Perez
capitalism sucks dick, and communism is a shitty alternative to it. lets not confuse free-enterprise with capitalism, neither should we confuse equity or fairness with communism. communism is the bastard son of capitalism, both are obsessed with money and human capital and see the world only in terms of financial arrangements, that's why they both devalue life and see enemies everywhere.
Logan Thompson
All i see in this post is you crying that capitalism and communism dont respect your hippy tier Feels > Reals utopian ideal society that will never exist
Bentley Barnes
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Joseph Diaz
Nah you justify it because land ownership is counter-revolutionary you stupid libshit. You sound like you found out about the serfs 5 minutes ago and rushed here to tell everyone about your discovery. "It was just like da slaves in amurica" - no it wasn't. Most weren't freed when serfdom was abolished.
Elijah Taylor
Notice the complete lack of serious depth you display
Serfdom was abolished but with no compensation and no concessions from the Local lords. The new free Peasents were essentially told they weren't tied to the land anymore yet everything they ever had was still owned by local lords who guess what? Kept them working on barley subsistence wages on that exact plot of land. For the overwhelming majority of serfs they literally kept the exact same conditions only now getting a tiny wage that they could barely use to begin with because a local Lord could simply repossess all of their belongings and leave them homeless if they planned to leave the land they were originally tied to. This phenomena was also displayed in the US after slavery was abolished as well and only changed under efforts of direct federal involvement (even so many plantations effectively kept slaves the same as before just paying them a pittance they couldn't really use).
In Russia no such direct intervention was taken. Even if the new landless Peasents could get the money to move on they were horrendously undereducated and were left with little to no options aside moving to a city to be a beaten down prole liable to be scooped up by the Tsarist secret police for being to uppity or subsistence farming an another lords lands.