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I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on this. That may be the case in most of the rest of the Russian economy but at least as far as the military industrial sector (as well as parts of the extractive industries, most notably oil and gas) is concerned, Russia's is state owned to a significant degree and functions more like China's (which is not to say that it is like it was in the USSR as China itself follows a more mixed economic model than the strictly command economy of the Soviet Union) than like the US and Europe's.

Anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism are a must. You can be either without being Marxist but you can't be Marxist without being both. In addition the world view of a Marxist must be informed by dialectical materialism.

The thing with western arms production is that the fundamental model hasn't changed, it's a privatized neoliberal profit driven one and as such there are inherent limitations to how much and how fast the production rates can be increased no matter how much political will there exists to ramp things up.

They are incapable of competing with the war industrial capacity of Russia let alone China and they are incapable of changing this because they cannot change their hyper-financialized economic model.

I don't know where you've been getting your information about the KPRF from but it's not accurate.

Co-ops are good but they shouldn't be idealized as a real solution to the systemic problem of capitalism.

I think the mood in Russia is very anti-fascist right now since they are literally fighting Nazis again. Anti-fascist and anti-imperialist groups like the communists have gained more traction and popularity as a result. The only way that Russia makes a turn toward fascism is if they lose the conflict with NATO in Ukraine which would create a lot of instability and revanchism in Russia. But right now Russia is winning.

Europe on the other hand has chosen to side with Nazis and is itself turning more and more fascist in both its rhetoric and its actions. And it will get worse because conditions in Europe will only continue to decline as the US siphons off Europe's prosperity to keep its own from sliding. There will also be huge resentment about losing their proxy war with Russia.

The bright side of all this is that even as Europe devolves into barbarism their power globally will be crippled and they will no longer have the ability to harm and keep down the global south. And even the US which will only survive due to cannibalizing Europe will be greatly diminished in its reach. The rest of the world will move on, they will build development and prosperity and will rise alongside China.

Data pack not texture pack

The point of Bundles is that they are an early game discount version of shulkers. Once you get shulkers you don't need bundles anymore. But shulkers are super end game. And making ender chests requires you to go to the nether which you can't do until you get diamonds. I appreciate having something in the super early game that fulfils a similar function of inventory compacting.

Imo client side mods are totally ok. This is not a competitive server after all.

What about data packs? I find myself missing Bundles as i usually have that data pack enabled on my worlds.

Complete nonsense.