btw, the images behind the American are from left to right, top down

mai lai massacre in Vietnam, homeless American, lynched American, lapd beating Rodney king

native massacre, lynched American, ku klux klan rally, American bomb dropping

torture in Iraq, American soldier posing with a child they murdered in Afghanistan

massacre in Vietnam, mass grave of native americans, native americans living in poverty, atomic bomb

electric chair, Epstein, supermax prison, fent addict.

They’ve had a lot of genocide at home, they’re just the ones who did it

I still don’t believe that distinction actually address the contradiction though and what Lenin says in State and Revolution. The title is literally “The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms” and later “The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class”

How can this state that is a product of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms and an instrument for exploitation of the oppressed class be wielded to do anything else but that? Sure maybe the argument can be made that the bourgeois is the oppressed class in the DoP, but they still control the businesses and enterprises even after a state revolution. I don’t think the world can exist without commerce and it is a fundamental feature of human culture. The Soviet state was never able to break that, at most it transferred a portion of that to the state itself, so was the state then an instrument to exploit itself?

This is why I appreciate people like Rick Wolff and his expanded analysis of the prerequisites of revolution including a robust cooperative economy along with political revolution. I just don’t believe the vanguard state is capable of doing what must be done without a component of non hierarchical syndicalist character and anarchist social revolution as an additive measure to the standard ML take and why I consider myself anarchist leaning.

I’m anarchist leaning and even I make memes making fun of anarchists on lemmy because the majority of lemmy anarchists are liberals and western chauvinists. The reason I am anarchist leaning and not a fully committed “tankie” isn’t because I didn’t bother to read Marx and Lenin I just don’t believe that some of their ideas will practically work, specifically the concept that a state is both inherently bourgeois and in charge of managing impossible contradictions yet somehow the dictatorship of the proletariat is able to wield state power to institute the will of the vanguard while being immune to the inherent contradiction of a state. To me this is a fundamental logical error in the revolutionary process that has to be resolved.

haha I paused on this for a while when making this I usually write USAmerican but I was trying to mock what the guy in the meme would say and they call themselves Americans lol