There can be no checks and balances on a state.

States only act in a way to preserve themselves. If that means by helping the working class - so be it. If it means oppressing the working class - that’s ok too. As long as the structure and elites remain in place.

Which is why authoritarian state communism always degenerates into a kind of state capitalism where the owner class is the state instead of capitalists. In communism there is no owner class

State “communism” means capitalism run by the state.

YPG is not a terror group. They are libertarian socialists and have not engaged in terrorism in decades.

Oh I guess that wasn’t just me being an idiot, this is some kind of systemic idiocy. Nice to know.

This is the actual original, the whole series is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ7FIOXByII

Funny headline but RFA is literally run by the CIA. I wouldn’t take their word on what NK is doing too seriously.

Religion here is only a pretext for settling scores and exercising brutal power. That’s usually how it goes.

If it wasn’t for religion there would be another “othering” aspect that would be used to separate the insider from the outsider group - race, sexuality, gender etc.

Rather there was just one development firm, run by the state, mass producing the walls for these buildings to be assembled on site