AmarkuntheGatherer

No obvious fact I'm afraid. It's only meagre analysis. If some disaster befell random oblasts scattered across the Union it may be true that a decentralised system could deal with it better. I wouldn;t make that argument but I'm willing to hear one out. Famine-causing disasters on the other hand, namely floods and drought, occur in lumps, in this case a large swathe from Belarus to Kazakhstan.

Reading the correspondences in this matter, there seems to be nothing but confusion. Collective farms asking for seed, CPU members vaguely hinting at low sowing without ever explicitly saying there's a famine to be alleviated and leadership of the Ukrainian SSR bemoaning the grain procurement demands of the CC of CPSU while working to over-export as late as December 1932. Kaganovich was sent to the Ukraine to sort out what was going on and it took him months to realise they were facing a famine and officials in Belarus were questioning the state of affairs since historically Ukraine had fed Belarus and not the other way around. I don't really see any sort of decentralised system, be it at a soviet or oblast level, figuring out the situation to a significant degree, finding who might spare the grain and establishing the connection to get that grain over many hundreds of kilometres. I'll hear out if you've got any ideas, but I just don't find it realistic.

It's less that and more "ohh, it's fine when they say it, but when I say it, it's racist" which isn't reasonable in the first place for the n-word, but doubly so in this case since we know there's a lot of racism going around in the HK independence "movement."

a more sort of decentralized or horizontal system should be able to better distribute food when a socialist project is still establishing itself and reorganizing or rebuilding its agriculture, right?

That's definitely not a takeaway from the famine of '32-'33. It took months for a powerful central government to sort through the conflicting reports from local officials, get an accurate picture and mount an alleviation. I don't think it's possible that decentralised system would've grasped the extent or even the fact of a famine in a more timely manner.

When an opportunity knocks, you don't to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church, or synagogue.

Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must if you wish to succeed in business.

There's no question that one cannot accrue billions of dollars without being a vile person and I doubt most of them could spare their loved ones from that wickedness.

You can just skip all this thinking if you remind yourself how easy it is to get a doctor's note, and infer how easily powerful fuckfaces ger more important documents.

Beyond that... Liberals misunderstand how media controls thought. They think in 1D terms, media that lies and media that tells the truth, when how often a thing is mentioned or in what context are far more important than the fact of it being said. I guarantee this, if all news media mentioned some crime or coincidence in HW's past after every fifth time his name was mentioned, starting on his election day, he'd be fucking impaled on the lawn of the white house before the first state of the union. Yet he was allowed to die a sweet old man, fondly remembered by man. As will his son, the painter.

Who knew Jonathan Pryce was the leader of Wagner PMC?

Wait, does this mean Pope John Pryce 1 died and they're hiding that, or that he only pretended to die?

You'll have to forgive the copy-paste reply, I answered about the same question on r*ddit. Even if you aren't read-up on DOR Korea enough to take it at face value that they're socialists, there are key differences.

We know for a fact that the Kim family aren't enriching themselves or exploiting their country's resources like the western backed dictators. If they were living with all the luxuries of the modern day bourgeoise or cheaply selling ores or whatever resources for cheap, that'd be quite difficult to hide. This is also why the only argument westerners have to prove their luxury is how fat they are in a country with such low obesity rates, obviously not a serious argument that merits a response. I don't know about Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong-Il's positions, but Kim Jong-Un really isn't in a position of supreme authority. In fact, he has less direct control over policy than most western leaders.

On the other hand, Omar Bongo (the father) was literally installed by de Gaulle. He had french backing from day 1, he and his family lived in all the bourgeois luxuries and exploited the natural resources of the country to the benefit of France just like the rest of the neo-colonies in west Africa.

Best way to learn about Korea would be to read up on the war and the writings of Kim Il-Sung. If you need convincing more than clarity, you can read Che and Fidel had to say about the DPRK.

I actually appreciate the unintentional honesty of painting themselves as Yezhov. Yeah, if these imbeciles lived in the USSR they would be piece of shit opportunists.

I'm not getting into the comments. Reactionaries talking history is like toddlers playing basketball, inbetween laughing at them all I can think is "please stop, you'll hurt yourself."

There's no clear territorial definition of what constitutes the area of the ROC in their constitution. It mostly refers to a mainland, defined as the areas controlled by Chinese Communists.

Provisional Constitution Of The Republic Of China (1931) has one though, which is what's alluded to in the constitution:

ARTICLE 1. The territory of the Republic of China consists of the various provinces and Mongolia and Tibet.

Note that this refers to the provinces as they were considered in 1931, which means it includes all the concessions by PRC to Russia, Vietnam etc.

We can reach the same conclusion by understanding that the ROC holds itself as the sole inheritor of Qing, thereby all its lands. These lands are what they use for the outline of China, such as in the emblem of their marine corps.

I will say in parting that this doesn't mean the people of Taiwan island necessarily consider their government to be the rightful governors of PRC lands, let alone the rest of these claims. They have no intention or desire to invade Mongolia. Indeed, they may not have in 1947, and therefore didn't make any mentions of Mongolia or areas ceded by CPC. Regardless, successive governments have made no attempts to clarify this with new legislation.