People need to stop trying to draw blood from a stone. Castro was a nationalist revolutionary first and foremost, not communist. His shift towards the USSR was purely realpolitik, not some game of 4D chess. Only did it after it became clear the US wouldn't accept nationalizations
It's funny, this article is from The Militant trying to get socialists to support Israel's genocide, when in reality it'll just make anyone second-guess Castro as some figurehead. Sure did with me when I was still ideologically bankrupt enough to consider an ML.
What a good dad. Destroyed that demonic corruption and left the rainbow still proud and shining. Even let his son transition. Thank you for your support Hunter Eagleman
Again, the criminal and legal codes of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as its history, are very publicly available, and I am not your bitch. Aren't you supposed to be a historian? Do your job instead of "raising doubt" about the content of memoirs lol.
Too many Christians absolutely LOVE the idea that people and even family members will suffer infinite unimaginable torments for disagreeing with them.
It’s a deeply sadistic & vindictive mindset that we as a society haven’t even come close to unpacking since it’s so normalized.
"Authoritarianism is a buzz word used by the CIA" Anarchists don't use authoritarianism as a buzzword, but as a precise definition of the certain administration of specific structures. The CIA is one of the most authoritarian structures on earth. They are hypocritical
@abhinav999911@capoties@MintMangleMan This is gonna shock you but the USSR didn't help vietnam and cuba because they care so deeply about the vietnamese/cuban proletariat, it was to use them as proxies to hurt the US. Much like how the US used the mujahideen to hurt the soviets in afghanistan. This is basic history
—everything within its power to suppress any alternative thought or movements. To conflate that with taking joy in worsening living conditions for post-Soviet citizens is an obvious and stupid strawman, but that's the point of it with them ig
Fuck the nomenklatura, and fuck you.
The collapse of the USSR being a net positive for socialism & discussion of it and its collapse being a disaster for people living under it (economic fallout worse than the Great Depression, privatizations, rise of Russian mafia, mass prostitution, etc) can both be true at once.
Of course, MLs will always pearl-clutch that you're supposedly celebrating the conditions of ex-Soviet states' working-class people, when, no, you *know* we're specifically happy with the end of a state-capitalist political project monopolizing the label of "socialist" and doing—