What's your favorite socialist revolution? I prefer the Latin American ones.
>>39346
The Czechoslovakian one that Dubček supported.
>>39346
The Bernie Sanders one will "trump" them all.
No one has ever turned an economy this large socialist.
>>39346
To be honest, I really like nearly all of them.
Now for my favorite Socialist leader. This sassy lil nigga
>>39346
You mean like Venezuela?
Mexican revolution is were is at desu. But also The Cristera Wars are based as fuck. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoriano_Ram%C3%ADrez. FUCKING BASED
>>39477
The USSR actually had a larger economy than the US for a while.
>>39477
please tell me that wasn't meant to be a clever pun
>>40345
>from our perspective the titanic is not sinking but floating into heaven
>>40479
Well, the world's largest economy was once socialist.
>>39894
R.I.P. Comrade
>>40492
Yet wages existed and surplus was circulating in an expanded form.
None of them.
>>39477
>>40733
>You will be allowed to have 1 room, 1 bed, and necessary personal belongings
so what i already have. i welcome the incoming socialist revolution!
The Chinese Communist Revolution, because of how crazy it is that a society such as the Chinese, with thousands of years of history, traditions, symbols and culture that had nothing to do with socialist ideals, managed to turn the second largest and most populous country on earth into a marxist economy.
It's also crazy to think that all those people believed they were doing the right thing. The biggest brainwash in human history.
>>39346
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYGxGeLAMBE
So powerful.
>>40935
>The biggest brainwash in human history.
what? the one you were subjected to?
>>40345
this isn't close to true
>>40962
Name a larger one.
>>40345
It never did actually. The US had the largest economy in the word in 1880 and has not been surpassed since.
>>40345
Source? How could you tell if most statistics were made up?
>>40962
Simplified Chinese was Mao coming up with Newspeak without ever reading 1984, for starters.
>>40944
His own party backstabbed him several times, most of the left didn't like him and no would fight for him so he died alone, he wasted his life.
>>40345
>t. official USSR statistics
>>40995
>what is the British empire
>>41109
'Newspeak' was created to simplify the way of thinking, while 'Simplified Chinese' was created to help the poorer Chinese become more literate. They both were created for vastly different reasons and for you to equate them is absolutely childish.
>>41297
That's not how it works, m8. He made the claim so it's his job to prove he is right.
>>40935
RIP sweet prince.
>>41297
The burden of proof relies on him.
It's pretty fucking obvious that the USSR never even came near to the USA economy-wise.
>>40962
Mao got the Chinese people to worship some mangoes because he touched them, sorry but believing that the private property of the means of production is a desirable thing but slaughtering bourgeois white males isn't does not constitute the same level of "brainwash"
>>41261
Something with a smaller GDP than the USA in 1880.
How the hell can you be on a history board yet not know something as simple as when the British were surpassed as the number one economy?
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-07-17/the-last-years-of-americas-historic-gdp-reign
What worries me about socialism, and Marxism in general, is that it is not based on sound economic science but morality. It doesn't matter if you tell a Marxist that his policies will lower the quality of life drastically for the majority of the population, or stifle scientific and academic progress, he'll simply respond with "But capitalism is unfair."
That being said, my favorite socialist revolution is the Paris Commune because it's also the shortest one.
>>41301
>Radically altering the entire character system and redefining the meaning of thousands of characters to fit with Marxist doctrine in order to bring about Communism isn't Newspeak
I mean yeah, if Mao didn't destroy hundreds of schools and set back educating the peasants in literacy for several years, I could see how "We can make the peasants read!" would also be a nice side effect.
I'm impressed by the one going on now in Rojava. Yugoslavia's was pretty based, too.
Mazdaki the younger attempting to lead late antiquity Persia into glorious communism
>>41623
Please, do not try to pretend that you never supported them when the YPG begins massacring the Assyrians them.
>>41623
Rojava has me impressed as well.
It even makes me think that perhaps Rojava's ideology might work on the long run. Considering the fact that they have survived despite multiple economic boycots implemented by Erdogan and his Syrian proxies.
>>41710
Assyrians fight alongside the YPG except for a small part that are part of Assad's militia. Assyrians are part of the PYD and Rojava and are represented in EVERY part of the political structure. That's a lot more than Assad has to offer and infinitely better than how rebels in other parts of Syria treat Christians.
>>41794
>Rojava's ideology might work on the long run
They're a single urban commune, in a war, without any hope of formenting world revolution.
Unless something remarkable happens worldwide they're doomed to be yet another Paris Commune style event.
