The federalism of Yugoslavia and the national policies of the USSR both failed and led to fratricidal wars.

Are we blaming AES now for the shit that happened after they collapsed and got replaced by capitalist states?

Yugoslavia and USSR both ultimately failed and collapsed, that much is true. I believe they could’ve survived if they formed a strong alliance, including China.

But the federalism of Yugoslavia and the national policies of the USSR were both incredibly successful in squashing ethnic tensions. People lived peacefully and most would never think fratricidal wars are even possible anymore.

At least with the USSR, I think things would be much improved if initiatives like korenizatsiya, zhenotdel etc were not abandoned.

I think it wasn’t so much rivalry as a side effect of the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam didn’t want to cut ties with the USSR so China supported Cambodia against them.

Same reason China supported jihadists in Afghanistan really. What came out of it was the fall of the USSR (Afghan war wasn’t the only or even main cause but a major one for sure), and China ended up with an extremist state on their borders which exported terrorism into Xinjiang, and the rest is history.

The immense misery of both China and post Soviet peoples in the 90s could probably be avoided if Sino-Soviet split didn’t happen, if they worked together against religious extremists and counter-revolutionaries.

And if the Tito-Stalin split also didn’t happen…

That the rate of exploitation is higher in the West? That’s his argument against unequal exchange, it was some YT video but I can’t watch YT right now, away from home.

He also repeatedly calls sex workers “wh___s” in his writings. And argues that Western workers are exploited to a higher rate than those in the global South.

you asked “What does this add to discussion?” what discussion? it’s just a meme.

of course China under the CPC is the most peaceful powerful nation in history and USA is the most warlike but that AI pic made my stomach turn so I commented on that

it’s just a meme

did it have to be AI slop tho

I’m not an anarchist, but a lot of people here are misrepresenting anarchism. Anarchists don’t reject coordination or planning, only hierarchical state control. Large infrastructure would be built by federated councils, unions, and communes, with common plans and technical bodies coordinated by accountable, recallable delegates. Central coordination without a state hierarchy is entirely possible.

My disagreement with anarchism is different: I think only a state with a strong coercive apparatus can survive sustained imperial pressure and capitalist encirclement.