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People generally need some validation but I think you're making an inaccurate generalization

Oh, do you have private statements or writings where he was secretly supportive of it? Or are you operating entirely divorced from historical research?

Also:

Stalin often edited reports of Kremlin receptions, cutting applause and praise aimed at him and adding applause for other Soviet leaders.[33]

Ignoring this bit i see

Wikipedia has a capitalism supporting bias and says this

Like Lenin, Stalin acted modestly and unassumingly in public. John Gunther in 1940 described the politeness and good manners to visitors of "the most powerful single human being in the world".[6] In the 1930s Stalin made several speeches that diminished the importance of individual leaders and disparaged the cult forming around him, painting such a cult as un-Bolshevik; instead, he emphasized the importance of broader social forces, such as the working class.[33][34] Stalin's public actions seemed to support his professed disdain of the cult: Stalin often edited reports of Kremlin receptions, cutting applause and praise aimed at him and adding applause for other Soviet leaders.[33] Walter Duranty stated that Stalin edited a phrase in a draft of an interview by him of the dictator from "inheritor of the mantle of Lenin" to "faithful servant of Lenin".[6]

A banner in 1934 was to feature Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but Stalin had his name removed from it, yet by 1938 he was more than comfortable with the banner featuring his name.[35] Still, in 1936, Stalin banned renaming places after him.[36] In some memoirs Molotov claimed that Stalin had resisted the cult of personality, but soon came to be comfortable with it.[37]

The Finnish communist Arvo Tuominen reported a sarcastic toast proposed by Stalin himself at a New Year's Party in 1935, in which he said: "Comrades! I want to propose a toast to our patriarch, life and sun, liberator of nations, architect of socialism [he rattled off all the appellations applied to him in those days] – Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, and I hope this is the first and last speech made to that genius this evening."[38] In the beginning of 1938, Nikolai Yezhov proposed renaming Moscow to "Stalinodar".[39] The question was raised at a session of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Stalin, however, reacted entirely negatively to this idea and, for this reason, the city retained the name Moscow.[39]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin%27s_cult_of_personality#:~:text=Stalin's%20opinion%20of%20his%20cult,-Like%20Lenin%2C%20Stalin&text=In%20the%201930s%20Stalin%20made,such%20as%20the%20working%20class.

There is no such thing as unbiased

Communism also failed to fend off capitalism - and before you say b-but actually the USSR lasted a really long time,

The USSR being couped didn't stop it from sponsoring revolutionary movements around the globe until the coup. The US still hasn't defeated places like Cuba. In this sense the project still lives on.

ask yourself if the USSR at any point actually lived up to the ideals of the revolution.

Yes, in many ways. In some ways it did not.

Which international media? I'm guessing you mean media based in the US and US allies if you're anti-china

You can't educate your way out of the logic of capitalism. These folks are optimizing return on investment, not human utility. The system is working as intended, why would they change it?

"You criticize society yet you live in it, curious"

Also the US didn't have the first internet type network

And there isn't slave labor in China

You're living in an alternate reality.

Practically, unless you’re working to make changes, and I mean real changes, then all you’re doing is making memes and trolling.

I am actually! Now go join a socialist org and help.

Okay, well, you're wrong, capitalism is a mathematically unsustainable system.

Reforming the system is a dead end, we have to replace if with socialism for the sake of our children.

An unsinkable aircraft carrier in the middle east to further the US' imperial ambitions

Thats because it is the only solution, and the "you're not left enough crowd" understands it is the only solution.

Maybe read Capital volumes 1-3 and then tell me you think "socialism or barbarism" isn't an objectively(or as close to objective as one can be) correct take.

“burn it all to the ground”…which, frankly, is a shit idea, because we are all in this boat and I’d rather see us all succeed than fail.

Do you think changing economic systems is equivalent to setting it all on fire?

Capitalism has a strong state because with it is more competitive than capitalism without state intervention, and it also needs more protection from revolution than it used to.

Literally just have an understanding of history and your meme ideology will be a thing of your past that is a little embarrassing

Neither is credible: they also claim that the weapons were made in Russia, not that they were given by Russia. Remember the whole "soviet union" thing, where a lot of Eastern European countries still have leftover arms and ammunition from?

No, accelerationism is vulgar deterministic Marxism, Revolutionary defeatism was invented by the Marxists who understood that to get socialism you need revolutionary conditions and a proletarian organization capable of taking advantage of those conditions.

Thinking that the defeat of western imperialism at the hands of Russian imperialism will improve revolutionary conditions is moronic and dangerous.

Growing multipolarity has already resulted in a lot of North Africa freeing itself from colonial domination: it has also created the conditions that allow for the economic isolation of the apartheid state of Israel.

Get off your ivory tower and actually study the present conditions.

moskal

Oh wow we got some "have to blow off the dust it is so old" racism here

Tell me you haven't heard of revolutionary defeatism without telling me you haven't heard of revolutionary defeatism

Literally everyone made agreements like that. The Soviets were the last to do it after spending years trying to form an anti-fascist pact with the liberal powers.