“I can’t help but feel that whatever is separating the parties is not worth this disruption.”

Ok, then give the workers what they’re demanding.

Lol. So much for O’Reagan’s “forceful nudge”.

They did the exact same thing with the 13-day Canadian ILWU dockworker strike the Trudeau government just shut down.

Legality is nothing but the collective will of the ruling class. They will do it in such a manner that continues to preserve the illusions and veils they have carefully put in place to conceal the real dictatorship of capital, but if they really want to stop the strike they will pass some “emergency measure” or other, or “discover” some novel interpretation of an existing law.

One of the Stalinist’s greatest propaganda achievement has been the idea that state-capitalism is Socialism.

And every network request is 10 MB

Finland has already reached Nato’s agreed defence spending target of 2% of GDP, and Sweden has drawn up plans to do so by 2026.

and the working class pays for it as always

Placing Russian communism

Where’s your “Russian communism” now? Stalinism is dead, irrelevant current stillborn from the rotting corpse of the third international and and Russia doesn’t pretend to be communist anymore in case you haven’t noticed. Don’t let that get in the way of your LARP though.

and Nazi-fascism on the same moral plane to the extent that both would be totalitarian

Who said anything about “morals” or “totalitarianism”? I certainly didn’t. The Stalinist errors and its distortions of Marxism are graver than moralist whinging about totalitarian states.

at best is superficiality, at worst it is pacifism. Whoever insists on that comparison can be considered a democrat, but in truth and deep down in his heart he is already a fascist, and of course he will only fight fascism in an apparent and hypocritical way while he leaves all his hatred for communism

Stalinists and their million derivatives, who applaud fully developed capitalist regimes, are more democrat than democrats are. What they really desire is not communism but an idealistic state-form of capitalism - a petty bourgeois shopkeeper’s fantasy world where Capital has finally been “tamed”. They don’t understand capitalism or fascism in the least and the ones who stumble into power only ever end up playing into the hands of global Capital and against the international working class.

Read Marx and stop being a tankie, you meatball.

If only the US changed their flag color to red and renamed themselves The United People’s States, then they’d earn the applause of Stalinoids

Stalin and Hitler could be candidates for that