A bunch of others are saying how they support Palestine but dislike Hamas or want a two state solution. There’s even a patsoc saying everyone should be allowed to live on whatever land they already are on. Basically “might makes right.”

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    I’ve never understood why anyone would say that communism was never tried. Socialism has been tried and built (and its a pretty robust system), but don’t you need a hegemony of world socialist powers as a prerequisite to establish communism?

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      You’d need some kind of big continent spanning union of Soviet states. And when has that ever happened? :P

      I more mean that all these countries were emergent from the colonial system and loaded up with historical baggage. They were transitional projects.

      In the same way a handful of Dutch joint stock companies paled beside modern mega-corps, the states of Cuba and Vietnam are only beginning an experiment that won’t be fully realized for centuries.