The music of revolution bounces around in my head. it beckons me to fate

you need to read theory

You're right, I do...

Like, REALLY need to. What you're describing is basically Marxism-Leninism. Techno-communism sounds like "socialism with Elon Musk characteristics".

Oh, rly? lol
Lenin didn't seem to be that bad of a guy. It seems that Stalin was the one who had more of an oppressive streak, but I'm admittedly not as informed as I'd like to be about this.

Lenin really wasn't a bad guy. I like Stalin personally...? though he certainly didn't do everything right. You have to keep in mind that during his rule the worst war the world has ever seen was being waged against his country and fascists had infiltrated high positions in the Soviet government.

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Strong arm authority has its place, but I do prefer a free society. I think the less secure a society is, the more necessary it may be for a strong authority unit to reinstitute order and security, but then there must be a provision for liberalization after it is no longer necessitated. I do disagree with the idea that just because Stalin's administration killed more that it made his more cruel than Hitler's. The nature of those killings are also important to consider.
tl;dr these things are too situational to say are just good or bad and I'm too ignorant to state anything about these events except my own impression of them.

Literally everything you said is Marxism-Leninism. Anarchism says "lol let's just establish full communism right from the start" and then they get crushed by a much stronger capitalist state. Marxism-Leninism says that the state should be kept as long as necessary and that it should serve the needs of the proletariat. No one WANTS to do a purge but if you don't do it when it's necessary you're a dumb idealist that will get crushed later on. It's fine if you think the USSR or China were mistakes, too oppressive or not well run but you have to keep in mind that these societies had UNPRECEDENTED growth and increases in quality of life thanks to their strong states and planned economies. Russia was a backwards feudal nation in the 1910s and in the 1960s they were the first nation in space.

I don't necessarily think the USSR was a mistake for its own intended goals. They had a good gini coefficient and I think that China's extensive train system can't be considered a mistake. I'm just American and it's a lot more feasible to advocate for social democracy here than anything socialistic, and labeling oneself as a marxist-leninist is political suicide, although I feel prompted to reexamine the label now.

Social democracy won't solve any of the fundamental problems with American imperialism, and it might even reduce class conciousness among the American public. I think it's the most viable option too though, at least in first world countries where a revolution is really hard to impossible to do. Just know it's not REALLY socialism.
BTW you should donate to Mike Gravel lol. Best (and funniest) candidate by far.

political suicide doesn't seem like the word I'd use, more like social suicide, an average uninformed American will here "Marxism-leninism" and think very ill of you instantly, i presume

If a candidate identifies as a Marxist-Leninist they could literally be put in jail. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954

so it's just actual suicide?

yeah, "suicide" with a few bullets in the back of your head

Well America's law code is laid out primarily thru judicial precedent, so that isn't really in effect anymore, so ig just social suicide.
Yeah, I'm afraid of that in particular. However, for certain parts of America, just that alone would require an unprecedented level of class consciousness. I'll look that dude up btw..

>Well America's law code is laid out primarily thru judicial precedent, so that isn't really in effect anymore, so ig just social suicide.
You don't think they would find a way to stop a Marxist-Leninist (or any strain of communist for that matter) from becoming president? They'll use whatever means necessary. For better or worse where America goes the world follows, and a communist America would mean the end of capitalism.
>Yeah, I'm afraid of that in particular. However, for certain parts of America, just that alone would require an unprecedented level of class consciousness
That's true. It could increase class consciousness too as social democrats bring attention to issues that seem insignificant to full-on communists but the American public have no idea about. There's nothing bad about taxing the rich more or giving people better public services, either. It's not where the end goal is but it's better than nothing.
>I'll look that dude up btw..
It's a bunch of teens running a campaign intending to get him to the democratic debate stage. He's too old and radical to actually win but it would be really funny to get him up there. Their memes are reddit-tier but a thousand times funnier than any of the other candidates.

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I like your pic lol
With the supreme court we have atm, that may happen... but I'd like to think the us has learned it's lesson to not censor such ideas, but then again, I may be too idealistic, idk..
Yeah, if only we had ranked voting.. lol

I'm sorry to say this but you're WAY too idealistic. "ranked voting" isn't going to solve shit. You shouldn't have faith in bourgeois democracy.

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Hmm.... I think I should read more theory... I guess I'm just speaking of what can be done, but even George Washington believed that this country should never have political parties for nominating candidates in elections tho

It would be an improvement but it won't go anywhere close to true socialism.

Which for all intents and purposes is not possible in America at the moment.. maybe in the 1930's it would've been, but certainly not now. The red scare was pretty effective for a number of generations.

True. :(

What's important is that a solution to the problems Marx highlighted be found, in whatever form it might take. America.. is just kinda incompatible with certain solutions, ideologically and otherwise. Whatever might be the case, never fall to despondency.