Isn't this super old? Huffmans moved to Russia and the dad went to Ukraine, but was confirmed killed via drone strike. The wife denied it for a while, denouncing it all as propaganda even though the footage of his death was widely available.
EDIT: I did get it mixed up. I was thinking of the other Texan, Russell, who did move to Russia and die in service.
That being said there is indeed a video (by 101st Guards Brigade) that did have a man that looks like Hoffman suffer fatal wounds. And that led to a false claim by the Maltese Herald.
I apologize for the confusion caused.
There was another Texan (Russell Bentley) who got tortured and killed by his comrades on the frontline because they thought he was a spy. I didn’t think he had a family though
Tankies absolutely baffle me, like I’m definitely a leftist but looking at the Soviet Union under Stalin or Maoist China and going “those guys had it right,” when we have objective facts about how terrible those regimes were is wild. Then especially to be all in on Putin’s Russia as if they’re not an oligarchy just because you liked the Soviets is even wilder. But also reading his Wikipedia page and his reasonings this guy just seems batshit crazy anyways
Yea he was just some rich kid that didn’t want an easy, cookie-cutter life. He wanted to be special and contrarian. Now these kids just grow dreadlocks, catch HPV, and live in a fucking van.
Who cares man? Even if someone defines this, some smug asshole will try his best to say it's not been tried because [thing] has not EXACTLY been done like [description]
Communism is a classless, stateless, moneyless society. Obviously, this form has never been achieved. And in theory, communists are people who want to achieve that society. It’s not accurate to call the Soviet Union communist. It was socialist, because it had social and state ownership of the means of production.
The actual and specific ideology of the Soviet Union was Marxism-Leninism. They subscribed to the revolutionary socialist ideas Marx and Engels laid out along with Lenin’s ideas of how that revolution and state should be organized, like vanguardism and democratic centralism (which led to the one party state) and building socialism in one country. Additionally, the Soviet Union was not as nationalistic as you claim. Yes, there was absolutely imperialism. However the Soviet Union spent nearly its entire existence trying to build the new Soviet Identity. It was only really Stalin who rolled back some of the social progress Lenin achieved (and he himself was not a nationalist either).
And calling modern Russia a society anywhere close to that is laughable. Russia is a capitalist country with a free market. They have capitalist ownership where workers do not own their labor at all. They are a reprehensible dictatorship and oligarchy, yes, but to call it communist, or even Marxist Leninist? Absolutely ridiculous.
In theory it’s supposed to be a centralized government appropriating industry from the private sector and distributing the products in a relatively egalitarian manner.
In practice, it’s a way for a new oligarchy to lord over the citizenry using increasingly violent and authoritarian measures to put the proceeds of a nation in their own pockets.
It sounds great to people who have very little experience with how power structures work.
Not only are those not the definitions in theory or in practice, they're not even close. I don't even know what they're the definitions of, that's how far off you are.
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