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  • It sounds like you were not making the espresso correctly from the taste you described. Maybe try experimenting with the variables like Grind size or fill level a bit to see how the taste changes. If you still have the machine I would be happy to help you make better coffee.

    It could also be the age of the beans, have they been recently roasted?




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    The marxist form of communism abolishes states as well, but the workers have to take over the means of production first before they actually have power over the owning class.

    Cuba had a very hard time due to the US sanctions and the CIA. But they showed that it was possible to be communist without losing quality of life.

    East Germany for example had great LGBTQ rights much earlier than most surrounding countries. Probably because they had a much easier situation than cuba.

    China is just capitalistic in their doing. You can see that from the way housing is managed there and how they sacrifice quality of life for the good of the owning class.

    No states is also the final goal of marxism, it just describes a way to get there. We have seen that striking is very effective if done properly, so it makes sense to connect the power of the ruling class to their ability to control the workers.

    What we need to learn from existing socialist/communist nations is how they achieved the revolution and what went well. We should also learn what causes undesirable outcomes and how we can prevent them from happening.

    There really isn’t a need for a new form of communism if marxism already exists and matches a lot of the things you are asking for.



  • Dismissing past socialist projects is not very helpful to actually achieving socialism/commumism. Even though they weren’t always ideologically clean they still had a lot of aspects of a socialist economy.

    Socialism can also be laid out it different strategies making the definition not always be completely accurate. Cuba and the USSR were big steps in the development of socialism and its theory.


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    The workers didn’t really own the means of production so far but they often had strongly improved lives during socialism. Look at the healthcare system of cuba or the rapid improvement of living conditions in the ussr after lenin took over.

    A lot of the concepts capitalism is based on are deeply flawed which is why a weakened version of it will still lead to some of the same problems.








  • French Press coffee tends to have a bit more coffee grounds in it than other methods, so this might be the case for you as well.

    There are different kinds of french press plungers that mitigate this. Some people also put a paper filter on their plunger to remove more of the grounds.

    I rarely drink french press but I love my aeropress, which also removes all the grounds.