@BolshieBhoy@KeasarNor@Ibbywins Who made leninism, if not Lenin? Stalin just synthesized it. You can learn leninism without reading Stalin.
Who made marxism, if not Marx?
@BolshieBhoy@KeasarNor Not all, not the closest, not suddenly overnight.
That's your strawman, you fight it bc I won't.
Reality is a process. You can read years of CPSU(b) Congresses, as many do, to know the process.
Your insults have no place here.
@KeasarNor In another turn of things, the fake bolsheviks who were traitors to the USSR were revisionists in general, so I was excluding them from the grouping of antirrevisionist MLs, yet the ideological factor was irrelevant.
Zinoviev was a revisionist, but more relevant, he was a traitor
@KeasarNor The point is: Nobody is denying Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg or the bolsheviks (majority with Stalin) were all communist.
Because they were all antirrevisionist M(L)s.
@KeasarNor The same as if someone says they're communist, it doesn't mean they are, nor if someone doesn't say they're communist, it doesn't mean they aren't.
Marx wouldn't call himself a marxist (precisely for antirrevisionism), but he was in a real concrete sense. The same with Lenin.
Most people “know” that Joseph Stalin was “evil”. But very few know that
- Under Stalin, and the Soviet Union set the world record for the quickest doubling of life expectancy from 32 to 68 in under 30 years, the quickest turnaround in history
- Literacy rates in the Soviet Union rose from a dismal 30% to 98.5%
- Women made up a third of Societ engineers and 79% of medical doctors
- Women in the ruling party went from 5 to 21%, at a time when Black and Native women in the United States were not allowed to vote
- Stalin took the Soviet Union to the second most industrialised nation globally in a decade, something that took Western capitalists centuries of colonial pillaging
- Healthcare, education, and childcare remained universal and were improved upon, hence the drastic increase in life expectancy
- Racist speech was criminalised!
- The Soviet Union defeated Japanese imperialism in both Manchuria and Korea
- Defeated Hitler and the Nazis
- Took a desperately underdeveloped society to a competing world Power with real, tangible outcomes
- Every national liberation movement that followed, Cuba, China, Vietnam, South Africa, all stood on Soviet shoulders
The popular Western political theory of “totalitarianism” which frames Stalin and Hitler as “twin monsters” of the 20th century is an ideological tool meant to hide the dark side of Western liberalism, specifically its history of White supremacy, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, colonialism, and chattel slavery, which actually served as the closest ideological inspirations for Nazism.
Western historians hypocritically isolate Stalin’s actions from the global context of the early 20th century, whereas in reality, the mechanisms of the Soviet state were the same things done by Western liberal democracies at the time.
For instance, France casually killed 10 million Algerians and tested an atomic bomb on their soil.
Westerners harp on about Stalin’s Gulags as if they were the same thing as Nazi extermination camps. In truth, the Gulag was a punitive penal system focused on forced labour and political re-education where redemption was officially possible, rather than a system designed for industrial racial extermination.
Meanwhile, the British in South Africa, the Germans in Namibia and the US with the Japanese population in the US, all used concentration camps when they thought it was necessary. A lot of projection going around.
In the end, Stalin was just a typical European leader. What sets him apart from the rest of the capitalist west, and why he is demonised is because he was attempting to build a socialist state while under total siege by civil war and foreign capitalist encirclement.
Source:
Los bolcheviques caracterizados en Anteo, el héroe griego que sacaba sus fuerzas del suelo (las masas).
Del Prólogo de “Historia del PC(b) de la URSS” (1937), Stalin:
This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.
I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.
And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.
In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.
The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.
It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.
Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.
Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷
@Alice_La_Roja@SalothSartre@JeanGreige Parar a los talibanes te parece mal? Ayudar a la República Democrática de Afganistán contra la agresión imperialista no es un error.
@eticahi@JeanGreige The Empire (the only one that stands now) is the main antagonist to the Working Class.
You disagree with strategy, and you are wrong.
Outside the Empire, communists have several strategies.
Inside the Empire, communists should have more strategies. Look outside to learn.
@eticahi@JeanGreige CPUSA is influential. For the proletariat and for the bourgeoisie, in different ways.
CPRF is too, and so every other communist party in this dear Earth.