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For sure, automation represents an incredible opportunity for workers, presuming workers actually are the ones directing the development of society. It does reduce the inputs required to produce goods, which frees up time for redirection and reduction of labor overall. I was more trying to combat the idea that AI will be a magic bullet for capitalists, when really we’ve already seen the impacts of automation before. It comes in a new form, with new particularities, but it’s not fundamentally different.

Completely, and why they are so cagey about their ancestors despite claiming the Soviets killed them. They could well be correct about that, for all the reasons they wish to hide.

Holy shit I misread it as Palestine and Ukraine facing similar challenges (which is wrong and genocide trivialization anyways). This is naked fascism, not just cryptofascism.

AI can’t really generate wealth in the long run. Automation of all types generates temporary advantages in pricing, but other groups catch up eventually. This lowers the rate at which labor is exploited as a ratio of production, which lowers the actual source of profit. Absolute profits rise, while rates of profit fall.

The only way out is revolution, which begins with the people, mass class consciousness, and organized leadership that can help steer the movement in a positive direction. This is why grassroots organizations of disciplined workers are so critical, they can help us accomplish the tasks of educating, agitating, and organizing.

It was snark, not a point. I am the only one of the two of us that has provided any sources, and I know where each of the declarative statements I made came from. That’s why I asked if there was a single fact I gave that you definitively dispute.

Can you give an example of a claim that I made that cannot be substantiated? Secondly, can you give an example of a claim I made that contradicts your personal experiences?

I suppose if I’m the only one representing facts, and you don’t care for facts, then it is accurate to say we disagree on them. In that sense, this is one statement of yours I agree on! Though obviously not the way you intended, of course.

As for peaceful secession, it would be wonderful if the Banderites let Donetsk and Luhansk secede! Too bad they responded with war crimes and attempted ethnic cleansing in a bloody civil war.

Regarding the stats on the rise of communist sympathies among younger people, again, this is from a right-wing institute that specifically does not want people to identify as communist. It’s McCarthyism.

As for calling the Soviet Union a “utopia,” I never did. I simply stated facts about the Soviet Union. For example, life expectancy:

All of what I said can be rather easily verified. Is it a “complete” picture? No. I explained why I support the Soviet Union, and those were some of the many reasons.

Thanks for the context addition, and sorry! Forgot for a moment that not everyone is a terminally online Statesian communist like me.

Same with Democrats, that’s why 90% believe corruption is widespread.

If you consider yourself a socialist, then get organized! It’s a very fulfilling task, and most orgs have secondary memberships that don’t have the same time and monetary requirements. Also, you get to meet cool comrades!

Let’s be perfectly clear, then:

1. How do you see peace being achieved?
2. Why are the people of Donetsk and Luhansk “bad actors,” and the corrupt Banderites sacrificing and kidnapping workers off the streets in Kiev somehow not bad actors?

That’s not entirely true. You could try to present an argument for why. If that’s not possible, perhaps you should do some more digging on your own? Maybe expand your understanding?

What’s largely different is that the US is a moribund empire, with a rising socialist alternative that it definitely cannot attack. We are in 2026, and that’s a fantastic time to get organized. Socialism is rising in popularity across the west among working people, and we will be able to establish socialism. It’s necessary, sensible, and possible.

1 is unquestionably correct, it’s how private media operates. As for 2, the idea of a “model communist state” is flawed thinking. Socialist countries like the USSR are not necessarily “models,” each has their own problems that come from existing in the real world, and not our heads. I support socialism, and the workers that make the world. The historical USSR fell into that category, and now the mantle is held by the PRC, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba.

Ukraine’s intense problems with corruption and lack of democracy actually stem from the 2014 Banderite coup. The entry of Russia into the Ukrainian Civil War certainly did not help Ukrainian “democracy,” but it was already over in 2014.

As for Ukraine having a right to remain sovereign, it again returns us to the question of Donetsk and Luhansk. Do they also have the right to remain sovereign, or should they be forced to remain in Ukraine, subject to cultural erasure and mass murder by the Kiev state? For Ukraine to retain its sovereignty, it needs to respect the right of the Donetsk and Luhansk to secede, and sue for peace, not drag out a pointless war that only exists for Statesian profits.

As for communism taking me down a “dark path,” I don’t see how opposing fascism and supporting resistance to ethnic cleansing makes me a bad person, especially because I want the quickest end to the bloodshed possible. I’m advocating for peace, which you confuse for a “dark path.”

The soviets abolished the colonies and created Ukrainian autonomy, freeing it from the Tsarist empire.

Again, agreed. It would be nice if the KPRF were similar to the Bolsheviks under a Lenin/Stalin/Sverdlov style figure, but it’s also important to know that the people make revolution, and so in the process of revolution it is the people that take power, guided by the party, not the party alone.