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Nihilism repudiates the common use sense of 'correct'.
He said that Nihilism is correct you clown. Correct only means one thing. Nihilism doesn't change the meaning of the word "correct", you infuriatingly dense nitwit.
No, not because of nihilism. I repudiate the whole mess because it is outside of my interest. What is any political system to me? I do not find my interest in abstract political theories. As for the material systems, there are none; there is only a complex network of relatively empowered beliefs and preferences held by individuals. I am helpless against the tide of history, as any person is. So I find my concern in my immediate relations to others, and I navigate those relations according to my pleasure and without regard to any system.
Perhaps this practice is nihilistic in some sense, but I do not adopt the practice for the sake of nihilism. Given what nihilism is, I could not do so even if I wanted to. If I am a nihilist, then it is an incidental fact of my existence among others; I am a nihilist in the same way that a rock is a rock: not by effort, but as a brute fact and by happenstance.
Obviously you care what your audience thinks of your self-aggrandising, incoherent shitposts otherwise you would not write them in the first place. I WISH that you did not care, because then perhaps you'd shut the fuck up every so often.
The assertion of a liberal capitalist that their own system is the best is not evidence that its the best.
Now go ahead and say I'm racist for disagreeing with a brown person, as if thats supposed to be relevant to me because I'm generally left wing in thought.
The assertion of a liberal capitalist that their own system is the best is not evidence that its the best.
It's evidence that Capitalism is Liberal.
Now go ahead and say I'm racist for disagreeing with a brown person, as if thats supposed to be relevant to me because I'm generally left wing in thought.
Capitalism is "liberal" in origin, yes. Not all capitalism is liberal though, in fact most of it is not. This is quite relevant to the discussion I was just having with that big, fat retard Amarel. To imply that Marx's concept of "Communism" is the same thing as the results of failed or false attempts at it, its no different than calling a plutocracy or kleptocracy a laissez-fair, free market economy because they are capitalism. Except the right wing way of labeling communism is worse because at least plutocracy and kleptocracy are technically capitalism, whereas state capitalism and fascism are the precise opposite of anarchy and egalitarianism.
state capitalism and fascism are the precise opposite of anarchy and egalitarianism.
State Capitalism is a term invented by communists for communists ends.
Nationalist Socialist (fascists) opposed internationalist socialist (communists) over tactics. Similarly, Marx opposed Bakunin's anarchists over means, not ends. Did this make Marx the opposite of an anarchist?
If one criminal gang opposed another, it doesn't make one of them not a criminal gang.
State Capitalism is a term invented by communists for communists ends.
When there is a state it is not Communism. Whether Communism itself is fictional is another issue.
Nationalist Socialist (fascists) opposed internationalist socialist (communists) over tactics.
They also opposed them in terms of their end-goal. The goal of Communism is the elimination of class and the goal of Nazism is for the Aryan race to take over the world and create insane levels of classism based primarily on race. This stems from both their occult views and their fascist ideology, whereas with communism fascism is not the end goal, it is the opposite of the end goal, it just results in something similar to fascism when attempts are made to implement it because no one knows how to achieve actual communism and communism can be used as a justification for actions taken by those who don't actually have the end goal in mind that is communism.
The fictional nature of Communism is irrelevant to the factual existence of communists. Communists created "state Capitalism" and dubbed it as such. Juxtapose the fictional goal of communists with the facts on the ground and you find they are all totalitarian. Fascist and Communists differ little in practice.
Eliminate the Bourgeoisie, or eliminate inferior races. What hierarchy is there when the only ones left are the right class or the right race?
No one knows how to achieve "actual communism" because "actual communism" is a contradictory term. But actual communists exist and have a track record.
The fictional nature of Communism is irrelevant to the factual existence of communists
This you are correct about.
Communists created "state Capitalism"
They did no such thing mate. You are quite simply misrepresenting history. All capitalist systems are state capitalist systems, because the state is what regulates and manages those systems. Communists had nothing to do with the idea of using the state to regulate a capitalist society. That is fundamental to the nature of capitalism itself.
Socialists began using the term "state capitalist" to indicate that the economies under question were still capitalist, and there was simply greater state regulation and control than usual, which was not/is not socialism. Greater state control over the economy benefits capitalists because the powerful elite are the ones who will be in bed with the government.
Nazi Germany was a state capitalist society and that can be ascertained by the fact that capital in Germany during that period outperformed capital in the United States during the same period. Hitler's "economic miracle" was the main selling point of the Nazis for heaven's sake.
Your falsifications of history are most vile my friend.
"The socialist movement takes great pains to circulate frequently new labels for its ideally constructed state. Each worn-out label is replaced by another which raises hopes of an ultimate solution of the insoluble basic problem of Socialism — until it becomes obvious that nothing has been changed but the name. The most recent slogan is "State Capitalism." It is not commonly realized that this covers nothing more than what used to be called Planned Economy and State Socialism, and that State Capitalism, Planned Economy, and State Socialism diverge only in non-essentials from the "classic" ideal of egalitarian Socialism"
Nationalist Socialist (fascists) opposed internationalist socialist (communists) over tactics
Stop going to war against history you nauseating fascist.
Later in his seminal tome, Hitler advocated for "the destruction of Marxism in all its shapes and forms".[109] According to Hitler, Marxism was a Jewish strategy to subjugate Germany and the world and saw Marxism as a mental and political form of slavery.[110]
In 1939, Hitler told the Swiss Commissioner to the League of Nations Carl Burckhardt that everything he was undertaking was "directed against Russia" and that "if those in the West are too stupid or too blind to understand this, then I shall be forced to come to an understanding with the Russians to beat the West, and then, after its defeat, turn with all my concerted force against the Soviet Union".[113] When Hitler finally ordered the attack against the Soviet Union, it was the fulfillment of his ultimate goal and the most important campaign in his estimation, as it comprised a struggle of "the chosen Aryan people against Jewish Bolsheviks".[114]
Biographer Alan Bullock avows Hitler "laid great stress" on the need to concentrate on a single enemy, an enemy he lumps together as "Marxism and the Jew".[115] Shortly in the wake of the Commissar Order, a directive pursuant to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, SS Deputy Reinhard Heydrich informed the SS of Hitler's geopolitical philosophy which conflated Bolshevism and Jews, writing that "eastern Jewry is the intellectual reservoir of Bolshevism and in the Führer's view must therefore be annihilated".[116] Considering the eventual Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), no additional inducements are really requisite concerning Hitler's hatred of communism, particularly since the Nazi persecution and extermination of these groups was not only systematic, but it was extensive both within Germany and only intensified in the occupied zones during the war under Hitler's leadership.[117]
You quote the criminal gang leader denouncit the rival gang as evidence of him being anti-gang only to deny quotes from the same when he talks about being a gang leader.
You quote the criminal gang leader denouncit the rival gang as evidence of him being anti-gang
What are you even talking about you raging idiot? Shut up. The Nazis were entirely dedicated to the single political goal of wiping out Communism. That fact is documented extensively by the historical record, and you are a raging right wing idiot who is trying to disassociate himself with another group of raging right wing idiots by virtue of accusing the right of being on the left. You're a cock, Amarel. As crooked, intellectually dishonest and corrupt as they come.
Why would a Nazi fascist Hitler lover (as you constantly pretend I am) repeatedly compare Fascist totalitarianism with Communist totalitarianism? Why would I do that? Is it because I love Communism and wish to equate it with my own evil views? Or is it because I hate Communism and wish to place it with other, similar damnable views? Can't be both.
Why would a Nazi fascist Hitler lover (as you constantly pretend I am)
I love how you simply just pretend I'm pretending. Lol. That's nice. Son, you spend your days demonising communism, defending police brutality and going to war with history. You could give the Nazis lessons in how to be a Nazi.
repeatedly compare Fascist totalitarianism with Communist totalitarianism? Why would I do that
Are you seriously asking me why you would be telling lies about Communism if you were a Nazi?
"Communist totalitarianism" is an oxymoron, as anybody who has actually read it understands. Communism was invented to free people from the existing tyranny of bourgeois capitalism, not to create tyranny. The default condition in capitalist society is tyranny, and it is masked by the propaganda of slimebuckets just like you (and Hitler), who attack the solution and never the problem.
Are you seriously asking me why you would be telling lies about Communism
When I articulate the similarities between the Fascists and the Communists, you interpret that as a slanderous lie about Communism rather than a positive lie about Fascism. That shows your hand.
State Capitalism is a term invented by communists for communists ends.
It was invented by a German socialist who was trying explain to Germans that a government run capitalist state was not Marxism. You cannot blame Communists for capitalism. If an economy is capitalist then that is something which is either objectively true or it is objectively false. In your fascist world of opposites, you want us to blame Communists for pointing out that something is capitalist, rather than try to fix the system they are criticising. You're honestly just a really corrupt, crooked individual with no sense of honesty. The way you twist language and history around your fascist ideology is quite frightening to witness.
State capitalism and capitalism are the exact same thing. There is always government regulation in a capitalist economy. It is merely a question of how much regulation there is, who it serves, and what their intent is.
The assertion of a liberal capitalist that their own system is the best is not evidence that its the best.
Exactly. Notice how he's deliberately picked a quote from a black woman, too. The way this scumbag shoves his propaganda in your face all day just nauseates me.
