The Japanese Communist Party’s New Kawaii Mascots (2013) (japantrends.com)

I dunno. Cats are cute and they are murderous bastards.

edit - even Stalin had something of the lovable rogue about him, back when he was a 2-bit gangster and before he commanded the deaths of millions.

Someone could easily do a kawaii cartoon version of the adventures of young Stalin. - http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSstalin1.jpg

That had absolutely nothing to do with communism.

It's about as stupid as saying that every person killed in other wars was killed by capitalism.

Communism was merely a convenient way to distract the masses while the fat cats were making off with the loot.

That's not the work of Communism, that's the work of a mad dictator using his power to change his government into an authoritarian sovereignty.

If it was actually communism, he would have never had that kind of power.

Anybody can say that ideology kills during periods of intense famine, but on the other hand, that really doesn't seem that related to the ideology itself. I don't know what a better alternative would have been, but I'm not sure that Fukuyama-style liberal democracy would even work in times of desperate famine, let alone allow people to pull themselves out of their own misfortune.

Either can be done to excess. I find most anime these days so coated in kawaii that i must either walk away or risk barfing rainbows. I really miss the days of OVAs...

Accelerationism is trendy now, but also pretty controversial. It's not so much that Marx wrote about accelerationism, just that the technological advances of capitalism were an important part of humanity's development, while containing contradictions that would eventually bring about its end.

Sadly Marx seems to have talked himself in circles, and those trying to make sense of his writings went off on a tangent.

Marx seems to have started out with the basis of a "energy theory of value" but then talked himself into the idea that only labor was the source of excess value (more value out than needed for continued operation). Thus we ended up with the whole "labor theory of value".

Never mind that he seemed more interested in a cooperative system of industry (workers owning the factories the work in) than the state run system that the soviet union produced.

He considered the idea of Russia going right to socialism to be crazy, as it was still mostly agrarian.

He was looking at heavily industrialized nations like England and Germany to transition instead, having used capitalism to get the required infrastructure and legal framework into place.