Do you have any kind of evidence of this supposed genocide? Anything aside from unsubstantiated claims from the same sources that are currently denying the blatant genocide of Palestinians?

Direct democracy is very prominent on a local level in at least Cuba and China (at least that’s my impression), and probably in the DPRK, Vietnam and Laos, too. Having no elected representatives is completely unfeasible on a national level for any country with more than a hundred thousand or so citizens (and even that’s stretching it IMO – I doubt most people would be interested in keeping track of the effects of policies and events on tens of thousands of other people, especially if that’s not their full-time job), which is why AES countries use representative systems but ensure that officials can be stripped of their positions if their work is unsatisfactory. With that said, a disagreement on that front doesn’t justify insults

(obviously, people who reject you for recommending Capital are just unserious and/or ignorant, likely both)

what about it?

that’s a strange interpretation of the warning considering the instance and the chain of “removed by mod” messages below

decades or centuries of

• propaganda about the nature of capitalism and how the “risks” taken by capitalists (which are negligible compared to the risks taken by workers – at worst, a capitalist will become unable to continue to exploit others and be “demoted” to a worker) entitle them to keep the surplus value, and
• lies about alternative economic systems and the countries in which they are/were implemented in order to promote the idea that, despite its “flaws” (by design), capitalism is less terrible than the alternatives

Element and other Matrix clients

you don’t necessarily have to read the original works to be exposed to their content, but for some introductory reading:

• Wage Labour and Capital (Marx), to understand the basics of capitalism
• The State and Revolution (Lenin), to understand what a state is and what statelessness is (e.g. it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s no central government)
• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Lenin), to understand imperialism
• Something that explains dialectical materialism, e.g. Anarchism or Socialism? (Stalin)
• Something about colonialism and its connection to capitalism, e.g. The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon)

it’s practically impossible to read every work of Marxist/Marxist-adjacent theory, so your choices beyond the introductory stuff should be based on your own circumstances

However a lot of Cubans also decide to leave Cuba because of the living conditions socialism created

Socialism in Cuba did not worsen living conditions by any metric. The reason for harsh living conditions during the special period was the dissolution of its biggest trading partner (the USSR) and the disgusting blockade enforced by the US, which continues to this day. Socialism is the reason why Cubans has far better access to education, healthcare, housing, etc. compared to people in most capitalist countries; imperialism is the reason why Cuba has been unable to thrive, and the fact that it’s survived and is doing relatively well despite the ongoing genocide is a testament to the superiority of socialism

In practice all the people from socialist states who I met in person and asked about it, did not feel represented at all, on the contrary, they hated socialism, primarily for the very low quality of life and instead they hyped american capitalism because of the abundance of consumer products it generates

Who were these people? Did they grow up and work during the socialist period in the country/countries in question? Were their parents workers or capitalists? It’s easy to find someone from any socialist or previously socialist country who will denounce its government, either for legitimate reasons, out of ignorance, or for personal gain. We have people on this instance who live/lived in a socialist country, with a very different perspective

If that statement is based on the assumption that there are still classes in socialist states too, I fully agree with it.

When contemporary Marxists use the term “socialism”, we’re not referring to communism, which is classless and therefore stateless by definition. Communism has never been implemented, and cannot be implemented as long as imperialism remains a threat. Classes remain in every socialist country (Cuba, China, the DPRK, Vietnam, and Laos), and they will exist for the foreseeable future. The fundamental difference between a socialist state and a capitalist state is which class they represent

A socialist state represents the vast majority of the people; just like a bourgeois state censors workers acting against the interests of the big bourgeoisie, a socialist state censors capitalists and people who (knowingly or not) act in their interests, potentially with some concessions to demands from other countries. As long as classes exist, a state will exist, and that state will naturally have a monopoly on what is (legally) allowed to be published

if by “free” you mean anyone being able to broadcast whatever they want, no, that has never been the case; media roughly adheres to the interests of the state, and a socialist state represents the workers

there are A LOT of similarities between Islamism and Fascism

what definition of “Islamism” are you using to justify this comparison?

explicitly states that they [presumably atheists since Marxism didn’t exist then] deserve to be and will be burned and unimaginably tortured in hell for eternity

Where in the Muslim holy texts is this stated?

Every place they have come to power they have enacted absolutely depraved social policies

Can you give some examples that weren’t more or less created by the West? I’m not aware of Libya having depraved social policies before the coup

Zionist reports will be publicly shamed

what have you seen that suggests that it might be socialist?

happy day of birth you Italian person

unlimited death to all imperialist scum