Comments by "" (@davidulanovsky8943) on "Putin Can “Get Away With Murder”, Says One Of The Kremlin’s Alleged Top Targets (HBO)" video.

  1. This ‘target’ is a known fraud and literally helped destabilise Russia. Britain gets away with killing the UN Secretary General yet Russia is attacked for killing a traitor.
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  2. External Link thanks for your intelligent response. I’m by no means pro putin but this guy has literally made up a detailed schedule of his friends imprisonment with no sources and is only anti putin because he wishes to go back to the time that was the catastrophe that was the fall of the Soviet Union so he can buy up more social services to force ordinary Russians into poverty. He promotes the racism that can now be seen any many western countries against Russians. In Russia there isn’t really a need for a strongman like you claim however they have excelled in taking power after drastic changes to the political system in the country.
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  3. Estrellakatarinathegreatrussian are you a genuine communist? If so don’t know why you’re supporting an oligarch wannabe.
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  4. External Link well the EU itself is in a sense expansionist. It has aggressively pushed into Eastern Europe but now become the establishment. I think that’s the problem, is soon as the new system becomes the establishment, people will revolt against it.
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  5. External Link well in my opinion revolution is needed in many so called democracies across the world. Obviously you’ll disagree if you don’t share my politics but Karl Marx said that western powers would simply appease while not giving any real new freedoms to the people. I think it’s faint to say on the innovation argument that the USSR was heavily innovative despite a society that lacked competitive markets.
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  6. External Link well the vast majority of election meddling is done by the US with Brazil being a recent example. Capitalism in Russia was to blame for the economic collapse and Russia is now less innovative under it. I don’t think competition drives innovation unless your system is already capitalist and the innovation is done by corporations. Intelligent minds will always invent and always compete whether money is the goal or not.
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  7. External Link it wouldn’t be a problem with the absence of consumerism. It’s consumerism that’s killing the planet. As consumers are also workers, they are forced to buy back what they produce, whereas in a socialist society they would already own their products. Many scientists and innovators work primarily to pursue non profit goals which is why so many are socialist.
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  8. External Link sorry but I have to disagree. The drive for needless products that are built to break is the main reason our planet is dying. An iPhone for example is designed to break down and made up of several extremely toxic substances that damage the environment when it’s disposed of. In the USSR, those who couldn’t work didn’t have to, one of the main reasons why homelessness wasn’t an issue. In capitalist societies if you can’t work you’re thrown out onto the streets even in welfare states.
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  9. External Link But greed is endemic in capitalism. Those priests were seeking to gain money as that’s the objective in a capitalist society. The iPhone example shows that even the products the worker produces then is forced to buy back is then used against them to sell data for capitalistic gains. Capitalist societies will always cause elections to be bought, it’s happened in the US for years and in Britain we’re now seeing that the brexit campaign was funded illegally using money from diamond mines. A socialist corporation cannot exist unless you build a true cooperative instead (something I’ve only heard of the recent Russian communist party presidential candidate doing with his farm) which is accepted in Cuba. I think I’m going to leave the debate there unless you have anymore interesting points you want to talk about but it’s been great just having a calm discussion, something very rare online.
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  10. External Link well how does a rich stock market betters son contribute to society and how did his father? What you’re talking about is a technocracy where the brightest rise to the top. I completely agree with your point on how the US needs to change but how can that change come without an end to capitalism. Considering there have been more capitalist dictators than socialist, it seems both systems can be corrupted.
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  11. External Link Sorry I didn’t make myself clear I was saying that what you want to achieve in society sounds like a technocracy. The US isn’t really a capitalist democracy, it’s an elitist anocracy where big corporations determine what 2 sides of the same coin will run against each other and take it further by denying the vote of the majority of the population. On the new technology idea I completely agree apart from VR, I think it would be dangerous to satisfy people’s every desire in an artificial way.
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  12. External Link well a technocracy collapses as soon as someone cheats the system or the elite start to think they don’t need the rest of the population. I’d disagree with capitalism being strong when the economies weak as this incentivises far left and far right groups to rise as well as when the economy is strong. If the world or a large pet of it was socialist states like Venezuela wouldn’t have a problem as they would be supported instead of isolated and sanctioned by the west which has contributed to the crisis in the first place.
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  13. External Link every system fails but something is always learnt from that system and humanity hopefully moves forward until it reaches a near perfect society. Marx believed that revolutions and power changes would end after the proletariat rose up as they were the last class that had not overthrown their oppressors. I think that no matter what you think of socialism, it’s obvious capitalism has outstayed it’s welcome. Only vanguard state capitalism has been attempted in self declared socialist states as without the vanguard revolutionaries the people are defeated as they have no leadership. I think an internationalist society based on true socialism is what we need to achieve and Trotsky’s theory of international revolution is the key to its creation however it’s clear that after the revolution, any form of vanguard needs to be abolished and I don’t see people giving up their new found power.
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