are you communist?

[TaraJo]

You are still being defensive about the fact that Soviet Atheists oppressed citizens who happened to disagree with them and executed them? You're still being their apologist?

Nope. I think the soviets who ran the USSR were monsterous, murdering bastards. I also think the people who run the Islamic nations in the middle east are a bunch of monsterous, murdering bastards.

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As a double annoyance, I don't think the second part of your statement is accurate either. I would hardly consider Czarist Russia to be a capitalist state. I think they were more or less a Feudal society still. According to Marx, Capitalism replaced Feudalism and Socialism would replace Capitalism. So they peasants in Russia never lived under Capitalism, they skipped a step.

True, but in a practical sense, capitalism and feudalism are extremely similar. We like to talk about how anyone who works hard enough can make it with capitalism, but the reality is there has never been that much social mobility. If you're born on the top, you're likely to stay on top. If yo're born into povety, you're likely to stay in poverty. So the wealthy land owners just turn into wealthy corporations and the basic system stays the same.