• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      30 days ago

      Maybe, maybe not. That’s an untested theory. Though I do think communists tend to overstate the power and influence of the CIA and other western sabotage. They certainly had an influence but they were not solely responsible for every single domestic problem the PRC and USSR had. Many were clearly attributable to their own policy decisions.

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      30 days ago

      Meh, you’re still thinking of scenarios that aren’t our reality to make it happen. You’re just saying that the CIA are the baddies and the greeds.

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      30 days ago

      I think y’all put way too much credit in the competency of the CIA lmao

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      Resilience to outside interference and internal perturbations is one of the criteria based on which a system has to be evaluated.

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          It’s not a fair fight, but it’s gonna happen anyway. I mean a population of perfectly exploitable labor with no one to exploit them just sprung up; why would capitalists ever do anything except try to exploit it?