Read the article I linked above for the answer. Richer countries like the US and western europe industrialized at least a hundred years before. Both the USSR and PRC were largely feudal economies in the early 1900s. But the soviet union (despite starting out from about the same point as Brazil in 1920) caught up to the US within a few decades, beating it to space, and forcing it to allocate tonsof resources to state-run research and development projects.

It wasn’t even really the USSR’s choice to de-link, it was heavily attacked by all the western countries during it’s civil war, and they embargoed the country when they lost. The west rode their hundred-year head start on industrialization and resource advantage from hundreds of years from colonialism and slavery, and also funded the newly defeated fascist countries like germany and japan to become anti-communist bulwarks producing consumer goods.

The PRC has now surpassed the US in most tech sectors, once again proving the superiority of socialism.

You can use rust and still use the GPL.

I got banned from Hexbear for posting a video of BE calling out ChapoTrapHouse because they supported Platner. Being against Graham Platner a few months ago was akin to being an “anti-left utra”.

That doesn’t sound right. I don’t know the circumstances of your ban, but I don’t see anyone supporting imperialists like platner on hexbear, I would think it’d be bannable offense supporting him. Most marxist spaces don’t like BE because he’s an ultraleft who demonizes most socialist projects, and is also extremely twitter-poisoned and has cringy takes on other topics.

It’s quite literally because of BE that the entire US left had to steer clear of endorsing a genocidal Nazi US marines doing tours at Abu Graib.

You’re vastly overestimating the importance of some youtuber.

And it’s up to others to help Cuba. But sadly Cuba has been let down and international solidarity isn’t what it used to be.

We shouldn’t get too caught up in putting all hope in external saviors, it’s not the way any communist project has operated, including Cuba itself. They did the work to liberate themselves and free their country from US domination. They’ve already been through this before during the special period after the fall of the USSR, and will continue to modernize and do what’s necessary to be self-sufficient.

It’s an ultraleft tendency to demonize other socialist countries for “not doing enough” to help, usually demanding military intervention and getting sucked into quagmires and afghanistan-like traps. It’s not anyone’s place to demand intervention or what form it takes. The PRC is choosing to do economic, and not military intervention, to help Cuba. That’s their decision and its not for ultras to criticize.

Percentage / proportion over time is more pertinent for the term “transitioning” than absolute levels.

Capitalism doesn’t work. The success of the USSR’s planned economy are near the bottom of that page.

Not to mention that Russia was one of the aggressors that started the war in the first place.

Wow, liberals are so propagandized they think the USSR started ww2 now.

This article makes a succinct argument, but essentially the reasons for its fall:

• The cold war arms race upped by Reagan - a huge drain on both material and mental resources that would’ve been better allocated to other industries. The US’s constant military pressure and brinksmanship forced the USSR to play catchup against an opponent with a larger chip stack.
• The USSR acted as anchor and banker to many third world revolutionary projects, which proved an additional drain on its economy. PRC avoided this mistake by being strictly non-interventionist, and avoiding these dangerous foreign policy traps.
• De-linking from the world economy and not being able to take advantage of the newest technology and consumer products from the west. The PRC corrected this mistake by the 1980s.
• Capitulations by Gorbachev to begin the process of privatization and dismantle the planned economy. PRC also avoided this by strengthening its publicly owned portion of the economy, refusing to privatize them, and making sure they commanded the top position.

Yes they are. The proportion of clean to unclean energy is vastly increasing : https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/china/ . There is a green energy revolution for the past few decades.

Also compared to the world average, the PRC is at 42% clean to the world average of 43%, while the US is at 9%. See the article I posted below.

2001 - 2025:

From what I could find, the US has a miniscule amount of green energy, and its not increasing in proportion to fossil fuels like natural gas: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62444

According to EIA data, the US is currently only ~9% clean energy sources, and 91% fossil fuels.

This is way behind the world average for clean energy, which is 43%, and the PRC’s which is 42% despite producing most of the consumer goods for the whole world.

Being anti-Israel and not apologizing for murderous imperialists like Platner is an extremely low bar (one that much of the compatible left in imperialist countries don’t clear, but still). I don’t recommend getting your politics from youtubers or streamers, but from actual Marxists / MLs. There are plenty out there doing great work, writing and organizing, who don’t spend all their time getting in pointless fights on twitter, and denouncing every socialist project.

BE is a twitter-poisoned ultraleft who denounces every socialist country : China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. He has no materialist understanding of socialism and isn’t to be trusted on any topic just because he correctly opposes Israel.

From here:

Gawronski: But China, even if it’s remained socialist politically, is trying to move away from socialism economically. On the other hand, Cuba still seems to be solidly socialist. Isn’t it difficult to be the only socialist country when everything around you is changing?

Castro: I think China is a socialist country, and Vietnam is a socialist country as well. And they insist that they’ve introduced all the necessary reforms, precisely to stimulate development and to continue advancing towards the objectives of socialism. There are no chemically pure regimes or systems.

In Cuba, for example, we have many forms of private property. We have tens of thousands of landowners who own, in some cases, up to 45 hectares; in Europe they would be considered latifundistas. Practically all Cubans own their own homes and, what’s more, we are more than open to foreign investment. But none of this detracts from Cuba’s socialist character.

What’s certain is that we will never make the mistake of destroying the country to make something new. We will not make the mistake of plunging our country into chaos, into anarchy, to solve the problems we have, because that would be the only way to never solve them.

Optics

We shouldn’t concede defeats to the anti-communist witch hunters in any field, especially language. To do otherwise would be implicitly accepting their worldview as the correct one. Instead we should dismantle the weak supports for their anti-communism / anti-marxism in the first place, which isn’t difficult for any person whose attention can be drawn to the mass suffering capitalism causes.

The US is going all in on the doomed oil and coal economy, and going to continue to use the pursuit of oil as a cause for war, until its too weak to do so. Meanwhile the PRC and countries allied to it are transitioning to the green energy future: solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion.

The long-term trend will be that the countries that are able to harness more energy, will outpace those that don’t. So soon it’ll be the US and Europe playing catchup to Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

If you drive through the midwest and mideast of the US, there are hundreds of truck stop towns like this.

Just from experience as an admin reviewing applications, bots are nowhere near replicants. 98% of bots can’t make an application without using obvious phrases like “I’d like to engage in meaningful discussions”.

Registration applications (which are pretty much required on all lemmy servers now) have stopped about 95% of them. Some still get through of course, but the admins of every server are doing hard work to prevent it.

The other 5% are quickly discovered and reported, and they can be banned (and their content removed), at the click of a button.

The LLMs are getting creative with how they answer, and people also are applying with half of the responses LLM based, and half real. But its still not hard to spot them when they give all the same predictable answers.

Its interesting because applications are how the old forum-internet used to keep out bots and trolls, and its still the best method to this day. There’s still work to be done, and it’s a never-ending battle, but I think overall we’re winning and doing better than western surveillance platforms like reddit, youtube, or facebook.

There is a similar quote from Arundati Roy, that’s something like: “Pacifism is a theatre piece, and it needs an audience to be enjoyed”. But ya I don’t think this is a real Fanon quote.

Lady Izdihar rules.