Would my oil rig be hit by those new regulations ? It's not really part of the main town.
I can't send messages for some reason, but could you whitelist me ? My username is Lasila.
Yes, exactly. Socialist states have been a net positive wherever they've been established. They have consistently enjoyed widespread support by the people, always raised the standard of living of the population, increased literacy, advanced sciences, encouraged brotherhood between peoples...
But there are of course reasons why most of them aren't around anymore. That is why we have to study their practice, analyse their mistakes so as to not repeat them, compare those states that ceased to exist with those that still do, and use all of that as a theory for our own movements.
I agree with you, except for that we should absolutely judge an ideology by how it is put in practice. We don't take what liberalism pretends to be at face value, because we know that's not how it actually works.
As for socialism, practice needs to be integrated into theory, as has been done by the likes of Lenin and Mao. This isn't a one way relationship.
Sorry for any anarchist out there, but we are perfectly justified to criticize your ideology for its practice. Anarchist have for the most part been an obstacle for the establishment of a stateless society, by neglecting class struggle, supporting imperialism, opposing socialist states, and distrupting the left in general.
Mainly trotskyists, anarchists and ultra-maoists. It's basically when an ideology focuses more on idealism, dogmatism and utopianism than material conditions.
Those movements tend to have stupid expectations for any socialist state, and they will more often than not support (sometimes by actively fighting for them) a capitalist or even fascist country rather than a socialist state they don't like.
Maoists are probably the more respectable of the bunch. They're fanatics, but they also do attempt seize state power and develop socialism in their own way.
He was probably just looking for something bad to say. He's basically a lib, so he's undoubtedly a believer that any investigation has to show both sides or smth.
I suppose you don't support any socialist country ever then ? They all had censorship and they almost all got accused of human rights violations. (And except for Cambodia, those have always either been completely false, or gross exaggeration.)
You shouldn't trust capitalist media, they have a very important incentive to steer people away from anything that would damage their power.
Most of those human rights allegations have been debunked numerous times, by MLs and others. You can find a bunch of them on YouTube pretty easily. BayArea's video about Xinjiang should still be up somewhere, and I believe BadEmpata did a good assessment of it too, even though he's vehemently anti-AES and not someone I would usually recommend.