The capitalists were interested in space flight but only as a means to belligerent ends. MW 18014, the first handmade object to reach outer space, was something that Axis scientists and their neoslaves designed as a weapon of war. Later, Imperial America’s dictatorship of the bourgeoisie wanted space flight so that it could spy on the Soviets (allegedly in case they launched a ‘surprise attack’ on Imperial America):

Eisenhower did, in fact, have an informed grasp of the power of space flight and a clear vision of its exploitation, but his was not a romantic vision of exploration and space travel. His eye was on spy satellites, with which he hoped to establish continuous surveillance of the Soviet Union and thus ward off the possibility of a surprise attack on the United States.

Eisenhower welcomed Sputnik’s launch because it quashed numerous legal concerns that he had about overflight.

Presently, many Westerners dismiss the space race as a series of vanity projects. The knowledge that Sputnik was a relatively ‘primitive’ satellite has bolstered this notion. But without satellites, telecommunication as we know it would cease to exist. It would be a nightmare for almost any moderner.

Axis war criminals might have run West Germany’s children’s homes for decades.

I feel like you should have just said ‘screw it’ and vulgarly defined imperialism as a parasitic relationship.

To keep it as mindnumbingly simple as possible, imperialism looks (more or less) like this:

Not this:

You mean the piss bucket that inherited police from the Fascist era, still has Fascist architecture, and lets neofascists run for office? That Republic of Italy?

Reminder that the NATO is complicit in the Portuguese anticommunists’ extermination of thousands of Africans.

The Soviets landed a probe on the moon in 1966.

The NATO is complicit in the Portuguese anticommunists’ extermination of thousands of Africans.

What is your problem with “Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi”?

https://libcom.org/article/aircraft-carrier-imperialism-amadeo-bordiga

https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bordiga/auschwitz.htm#a1

Most of what physically remains of him is gone, so that is some compensation for us in the lower classes… but it is also true that he continues to harm us from beyond the grave; he still exists out there. Whenever there’s a White supremacist ranting about Jews or Romanies, he’s there. Whenever there’s an ICE official abducting supposed ‘foreigners’ and interning them in concentration camps, he’s there. Whenever the IOF are displacing or massacring humans of colour to make room for settlers, he’s there, too. As Rod Serling said:

Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare — Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry. He’s alive. He’s alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He’s alive because through these things we keep him alive.

I’d rather not get involved in another anarchism vs. state socialism debate, but I find @[email protected]’s attitude obnoxious. While I do question if a people’s republic is the best possible way to go, dismissing the people’s republics as ‘bourgeois’ and ‘failures’ is a crappy, oversimplified conclusion that wilfully disregards the enormous gains that the working masses made in them.

Not to mention that this paskudnyak is being needlessly hostile: I trust that you despise capitalism as much as I do, so there’d be no need for me to behave smugly or condescendingly to you just because of your anarchism scepticism and preference for the people’s republics.

Anyway, like I said I’d rather not get into an argument. I just want to tell you that I sympathize with your frustrations and we don’t have to be enemies simply because we’re socialists who have different perspectives on state machinery. We can handle our disagreements respectfully.

a fascist monarchist country

The Kingdom of Romania?

⇧ literal Holodomor denial. Denying that Stalin exterminated 70 million White capitalist men is the same thing as Holocaust denial (except it’s actually way worse; the Holocaust wasn’t THAT bad)

tl;dr

Stalin massacred at least 50 million White cishet capitalist men… and even that estimate is probably too low.

I am aware.

Mount Rushmore’s sculptor admired Benito Mussolini.

@nytimes can’t manage to photograph Ukrainian soldiers without platforming Nazi wear

Why do you want Putin to genocide millions of European people with blond hair and blue eyes?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fascist_fasces.svg