I mean, clearly the system is broken. Putting another dipshit in charge doesn’t even seem like a bandaid, even if it is a Democrat. Like, what, I’m supposed to believe Gavin fucking Newsom or whoever the fuck is going to right the ship and establish checks and balances?
Only solution:
“Revolution, the only solution!”
You mean violent overthrow of the existent system and establishment of a totalitarian empire? That’s sure going to help.
No, the violent overthrow of the totalitarian empire and the replacement with a socialist system that brought massive improvements in quality of life, democratization of the economy, rapid industrialization, huge increases in equality of men and women, free and high quality healthcare and education, full employment, cheap or free housing, a doubling of life expectancy and a tripling of literacy rates to over 99.9%, and more.
Are you seriously thinking this is how revolution in the US would go?
That’s how the soviet union’s revolution went. The US Empire isn’t a semi-feudal backwater, it will have a far different course, plus it won’t likely be invaded by neighboring capitalist countries as by the time of a revolution in the US the entire imperialist west will have been too weakened to do anything to stop it.
If you disregard some minor hiccups, like the civil war, the multiple colonial wars, the famines the purges, the gulag and other such trivialities.
The civil war, where the Tsarist regime tried their best to destroy the popular revolution and reinstate their old monarchist system? Where western countries like the US, UK, France, etc invaded to try to crush the fledgling socialist system?
What colonial wars? The USSR had no colonies.
The famines, which outside of World War II when the Nazis deliberately attacked their farms, and outside of the 1930s, which had famine induced by weather disaster and magnified by privledged capitalist farmers called “kulaks” destroying their livestock and grain to prevent collectivization? The famines that were common under the Tsar, but ended under the soviets?
The purging of fascists, opportunists, and criminals from the party in a widespread anti-corruption campaign supported by the people?
The prisons, which every country has?
I don’t follow your point, it seems to just be word salad trying to list off a bunch of buzzwords with no actual point behind any of them.
You’re really looking at this through red-tinted glasses. It’s ok to admit that there were also serious missteps by Stalin that magnified the extent of this famine, and that it was intentionally made worse for some ethnic minorities.
My country also has prisons, but they dont use the prisoners for forced labour
That wasn’t something all prisons in the Soviet Union did, many soviet prisons were actually more humane than their peers and had visitations or even the ability to leave on certain days. The idea of the brutal forced labor camp being the only form of soviet prison, as though the minority of prisons was the majority, is an example of how the Red Scare took kernals of truth and distorted them heavily.
Moreover, assuming you’re from Germany based on your instance, your country absolutely had far worse forced labor camps, that was a major feature of the Holocaust. The Soviet Union also had prison reform as well, so I really don’t know what your point is.