“Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership.”

It’s like the first sentence of the document dude.

The document linked specifically is talking about the Soviet system and Stalin.

This was an internal memo not meant for the public eye, so it probably contains accurate information.

“The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated.”

— The CIA

(https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf)

FYI, in the fifties the CIA wrote a memo where they stated that claims that Stalin was autocratic were largely exaggerated and the USSR largely had collective leadership.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

If a socio-economic system incentives greed to the point where a person who is not greedy is literally unable to succeed, can you really say that greed is human nature?

America has always been authoritarian. You and I obey the authority of capital — who controls the state. US democracy has always been an illusion.

You know that American conservatives have been banning books from libraries, and banning topics like racism and homophobia from being talked about in schools, right? American conservatives love censoring anything they don’t agree with. They are the original snowflakes.

I suspect your butt is just chapped because you can’t drop a hard “r” on BlueSky.

Well that’s why I didn’t say “leftists.” But if we’re continuing to be honest, leftist governments also censor. I don’t think you can find any ideology that doesn’t censor, actually.

Tbh liberals love censorship as much as conservatives (see the proscription of Palestine Action in the UK).

But it’s a bit silly saying you are going to vote for a conservative because a conservative group is censoring you.

Collective Shout is a conservative organization you numbskull.

It’s far more plausible that his administration ignored a credible threat to allow a security incident to use as justification. Similar to how Israel ignored intelligence of October 7.

Communist in a happy and stable relationship reporting in.

Capitalism commodifies everything. The enshittification of the internet was inevitable under a capitalist system.

Trump only has power because the oligarchs are using him to 1) Distract people away from class consciousness and 2) Use fascism to shore up their power for when distraction fails.

I really hate the TACO misnomer, because while Trump was distracting everyone with tariffs he did NOT chicken out of doing a whole bunch of worse stuff.

And also, calling him a chicken only eggs him on because now he feels like he has something to prove.

It’s pure copium and it makes people put their guard down.

Henry Ford still underpaid people for their labor. That is the fundamental key to capitalism. Profit is surplus labor that capitalists steal from laborers.

That’s because in capitalism the politicians actually serve the wealthy ruling class, not the citizens, and the ruling class and the citizens have vastly different priorities.

According to the UK, splashing something with paint to express a political opinion means that you are a terrorist.

Ok bud, time to take a nap.