I’m from the USSR and I had a yank tell me I’d be speaking German if not for murica.
I said I only speak a bit of German but wish I spoke it better so he went on to painstakingly explain what WW2 was.
It was kinda funny but less so than I thought it’d be.
Apparently Leninism is a wider term including ML, Trotskyism, and other tendencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism
So it wouldn’t be wrong call MLs Leninist, or just Marxist if you want to cast an even wider net.
This is asinine, labour organisers get assassinated in the Global South.
Shameless comparison, prostitutes don’t commit war crimes, they are victims and hurt absolutely noone.
It’s a myth.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2019.1692660?src=recsys&journalCode=fjss20
Lenin was very serious about staying true to Marx, to the point of quoting entire pages to be sure he’s not taking things out of context. His work is Marx’s thought applied to economical and political developments Marx couldn’t have foreseen, but it’s in no way revisionist. I think this is why Stalin called it “Marxism-Leninism”, to make sure it’s clear this is Marxism.
Still you have “orthodox Marxists” who will claim ML is not really Marxism but I think if it was called just “Leninism” it would’ve been even easier for them to claim Leninism isn’t even Marxism.
Wasn’t the falling out with Vietnam essentially a side effect of Sino-Soviet split? Mao wanted Vietnam as China’s satellite while Vietnam wanted independence and wouldn’t cut ties with the USSR.
It’s not difficult to call Nazis Nazis.
Zhukov was right when he said “We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.” The West immediately went on to put Nazi generals in charge of NATO, Canada nurtured Banderites who would never see a day of freedom in Ukraine, all this simply because Nazism is an organic outgrowth of European settler-colonial project (same as Zionism), it’s the ugly side of Western liberalism.
Turning this around against Ukraine made my blood boil because Ukraine was one of the primary victims of Nazism along with Belarus, over two million Ukrainians enslaved and sent to German industries for forced labour, over five million slaughtered, entire villages razed to the ground, mass rapes organised by Nazi officers, mass shootings by SS death squads and Banderites, things Western education mostly glosses over. Even the 30s famine has nothing on the destruction Nazis wreaked on Ukraine.
I doubt you can imagine the generational trauma people raised in the USSR have. Watch “Come and See” and understand we were raised by people who lived through this (https://youtu.be/zjIiApN6cfg). Liberation from Nazis is not a laughing matter for us, which is why the Ukrainian grandma with the red flag resonated so deeply with so many post-Soviet people (https://youtu.be/DfeflkpcOi4).
Ukraine was a founding member of the USSR, Ukrainians were the largest ethnic group in the Red Army after Russians, with over 5 million serving (https://i.imgur.com/62j4OYo.jpeg). It’s Ukrainians who did the liberation, and it’s the West who never forgave them for it and is now destroying them in a proxy war against Russia, after putting Banderites in power.
I’m sorry but the comment I referenced comes out of a deep ignorance and arrogance typical to Westerners. No they didn’t say “every single Ukrainian” but they generalised Ukrainians in an extremely ahistorical and offensive manner.
They’re all volunteers so hopefully every single one dies in pain and goes to hell.
About Trump and Harris:
Their approaches to turmoil in the Middle East are also expected to be at least rhetorically different.
But no matter who wins in November, the United States will continue to prepare for war with China.
Not even pretending anymore lol
OMG of course I know what happened to Black Panthers, this doesn’t explain why you can’t organise two generations later. Read Sakai or Zak Cope.
Will do, and thank you.
Americans and other imperial core nations directly benefit from imperialism, this is the real reason why no communist party can take off the ground there, not any ephemeral reppression. Ukrainians on the other hand are the victims of imperialism and it’s their country that is right now ravaged by a war. You wouldn’t go around blaming Bangladeshi people for politics that keep them in crumbling sweatshops, even though it’s comprador Bangladeshi politicians who sign off those policies for the benefit of Western capitalists. The same way when comprador Nazi politicians of Ukraine sacrifice their people in a war for the benefit of Western capitalists, you shouldn’t blame Ukrainian people for it.
Your question is no different from someone asking “if it’s ok to say whites do such and such, why can’t I say blacks do such and such”? The difference is between the oppressor and the oppressed, the perpetrator and the victim. White supremacy is not every single white persons fault and noone can singlehandedly end it, but whites are collectively benefitting from it and thus should take responsibility. Western people, working class included, have some responsibility for sustaining imperialism, because it does benefit them - all the sweat, blood and tears are outsourced to other nations so there’s no reason for Western working class to rebel.
Those dynamics have to be understood if we’re to achieve any change at all and it’s actually sad I had to type this out.
Yeah I don’t think “Ukrainians will never forgive the Red Army for liberating them from Nazis” meant “Ukrainian government”, sorry. More likely, this person thinks Ukraine was on the side of Nazis in WW2 which I’m seeing quite a lot too (not looking for examples though, sorry)
Found in my history the last time I had an argument over this and I see you commented there as well lol: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5287344/4812302
all Ukraine had to do was be normal. There could have been peace earlier but we blocked it; I don’t even know how that works, why the hell did Ukraine go along with that?
of course as puppets they never would have been allowed to stop this war from starting. I just wish Zelensky would have the guts to cut the strings
Literally everything Eastern Europe has to do is to stop praising, supporting and building monuments for fucking nazis and be normal, really hard part for a lot of them.
And when I brought up how it’s the West that did this to us, you had a similar response as now:
You know the person you’re talking to (1) opposed this and (2) had zero control over it, right?
This is your brain on liberalism, you have Western “leftists” running around asking “why can’t those Slavs just be normal like us” but when a Slav mentions it’s you people who keep spreading this poison around the world you will turn around and go “well he can’t singlehandedly change the world can he?”
Do you really not notice the hypocrisy here? Can’t understand how exasperating this is?
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How am I describing Ukrainian Nazis? What foreign country did they coup? What NGOs did they insert into other countries to meddle with their politics? What conflict abroad do they materially benefit from?
God almighty Western leftists are so fragile, critisize them and you all descend with “no u” not even bothering to make any sense.
Meddling and coup attempts by who? Ukrainians? Poles? Who the fuck couped the US? Are you high?
I’ve seen countless examples of this and won’t waste time looking now, but if you want I can start tagging you and @GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml whenever I notice those?
If Georgian communists, and Ukrainian communists got beaten down, imagine the situation for communists in Europe, or even worse, the US.
This is just Western exceptionalism talking.
In Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, etc communist parties and periodicals are banned, WW2 veterans are harassed and arrested for wearing their uniforms or putting flowers at WW2 monuments, wearing communist symbols can land you in jail, and an overwhelming foreign capital is making sure those rules are in place and no competing thought is allowed in press.
While in the EU, UK, USA, communist parties are allowed to operate mostly unmolested by the government, they publish their newspapers, organise protests and so on…
You’re right that Georgian and Ukrainian communists got beaten down, nobody’s “beating down” British or French communists though, are they? But I’m supposed to “imagine the situation for communists in Europe, or even worse, the US” like you have it worse somehow.
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