How do communists reconcile the trilemma of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the global dominance of capitalism and NATO?

Option 1: Capitalism defeated communism because liberal democracy and market economies were superior — implying that Marxist theory was flawed or outdated.

Option 2: The communist bloc could have defeated NATO and capitalism, but chose not to — even as workers’ movements were suppressed, socialist states collapsed, and inequality soared globally. This implies communist leaders were negligent or lacked conviction.

Option 3: Capitalism triumphed and communism collapsed because the latter was never truly viable — suggesting that the core ideals of Marxism-Leninism are utopian and unworkable in practice.

>>17768768 (OP)
We live in the bad end timeline where the good guys lost the (cold) war.
Why do you think everything has gone downhill since the 90s?

>>17768790
Stalin was talking out of his ass here, “Capitalist oppression” does not exist.

Capitalism by definition is the government not having control over the economy. “Private property” refers to property not owned or controlled by the government. Think of it as separation of economy and state, just as secularism is separation of religion and state.

This has never oppressed anyone. The government not having control over the economy physically and literally cannot oppress anybody. Every single instance of “capitalist oppression” that people point to was in reality caused by government intervention.

Socialists fight against an enemy which exists only in their heads and complain about problems that never existed. “Capitalism is heckin evil and oppressive” is no more true than “the earth is flat”, I.E. it’s schizophrenic nonsense with no basis in reality.

Marx was not an “intellectual”, he was a conspiracy theorist, no different from your drunk uncle on Thanksgiving ranting about how the world is run by a secret society of cyborg lizard people from outer space. Marx was nothing more than a moron who didn’t know what he was talking about (especially since his own parents considered him a failure).

>>17768790
The Soviet Union collapsed because of inherent contradictions

>>17768790
its kinda hard to feel sympathy for a government that had such awful rulers at the time
>but washington owned slaves
You can argue that was of his time but how can you justify the Holodomor?

>>17768822
How do you justify the destruction of Alderaan?
>>17768768 (OP)
2. Lock me in.