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"Claims to adore Marx, but seems to decry every single movement to put his ideas into practice"
Didn't Marx disown the Russian Revolution and other violent attempts at implementing communism? Y'know, the very factions these guys put on a pedestal?
No, Marx didn't live long enough to see the Russian Revolution, and Marx was certainly not adverse to violent revolution. Though he mused that some sufficiently democratic bourgeois societies might be capable of a peaceful transition to socialism, it was certainly not the focus of his writings. Funny enough, he did suggest that Russia was the least ready for socialism of all the major European nations.
Marx, however, believed that development into a bourgeois capitalist society was a necessary prerequisite for a socialist dictatorship of the proletariat. The Bolsheviks were a radical departure from this line of thinking, proposing both that the peasantry were a revolutionary class and that a capitalist mode of production was not necessary to transition to a socialist workers' state. In addition, the Bolsheviks, despite their claims, were quite anti-democratic, which goes strongly against the spirit and letter of Marx's writings.
A 'tactical retreat' here meaning 'exactly what they overthrew the right-SRs and eliminated the Mensheviks for supporting', except now, conveniently, all in the control of the Bolsheviks. Hell, half the reason that the NEP was implemented was because the peasantry were resisting collectivization, and the other half was that the 'war communism' of the civil war period had been fucking ruinous; not a well-considered ideological decision. Not only that, but the NEP was extremely short-lived, far too short to build up industry to the standards of a capitalist mode of production, and if it was up to Lenin, it would've been even shorter-lived.
Democratic centralism is not democratic, and the USSR definitely was not fucking democratic in any real sense.
In the sense that they had lost support of the people, that the economy had fallen apart, and only by plundering the peasantry with 'war communism' could they keep their effort going? Uh, sure.
"Stalin managed a social democracy"
Jesus fucking Christ.
Oh, okay, so Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were democracies too, right? They had elections, representatives, an elected parliament...
Oh, wait, is the DPRK a democracy too?
Yes. The US. Mexico. Turkiye. Anarchist Catalonia.
"We managed to squeeze the country so hard that an unprecedented number of literal millions died in famine, but at least we beat the aristocrats who were so incompetent that they couldn't drag their heads out of their asses for the full ten minutes needed to form a government"
Good job.
Oh, yes, the Supreme Soviet unanimously ratifying everything placed in front of their noses was DEFINITELY a functioning democratic system. Literally what 'democratic centralism' meant. You DO realize this is an ANTI-tankie comm, right?
Check, please!
Yes, I dispute that North Korea and the USSR had a democratic system.
Get the fuck out of here, tankie.