If Lenin was alive he'd be doing songs with Billy Woods

Not exactly a split but they had a disagreement

got a link to what the disagreement was about

ass or t***

Basically about the USSR

Che thought they were on the road to restoring capitalism and Fidel basically agreed but didn't want to condemn them publically like Che did for pragmatic reasons

Later on in the late 80s during Cuba's rectification campaign, where they erased market aspects etc while Gorby was doing the whole capitalism reform, Fidel had a whole speech about how Che was right

idcommunism.com/2016/06/fidel-castro-ches-ideas-are-absolutely.html?m=1

"Recently all these ideas were compiled, and an economist wrote a book that was awarded a Casa de las Américas prize. The author compiled, studied, and presented in a book the essence of Che’s economic ideas, retrieved from many of his speeches and writings — articles and speeches dealing with a subject so decisive in the building of socialism. The name of the book is The Economic Thoughts of Ernesto Che Guevara. So much has been done to recall his other qualities that this aspect, I think, has been largely ignored in our country. Che held truly profound, courageous, bold ideas, which were different from many paths already taken.

In essence — in essence! — Che was radically opposed to using and developing capitalist economic laws and categories in building socialism, he advocated something that I had often insisted on: Building socialism and communism is not just a matter producing and distributing wealth but is also a matter of education and consciousness. He was firmly opposed to using these categories, which have been transferred from capitalism to socialism, as instruments to build the new society. At a given moment some of Che’s ideas were incorrectly interpreted and, what’s more, incorrectly applied. Certainly no serious attempt was ever made to put them into practice, and there came a time when ideas diametrically opposed to Che’s economic thought began to take over."

You could say Cuba's rectification campaign launched in the late 80s was kinda similar to cultural revolution except it was cut short by the collapse of all socialist countries imagine the alternate universe where we woulda seen how it woulda played out

The crayz part is it's true

Khrushchev f***ed it up man

Literally sounds like the whole exchange was written by right wingers

I agree

Althusser uncucked Marxism tbh

What does Maoist gang think of Cuba's rectification campaign and its parallels to cultural revolution? @DontAtMe @Cudderwalks @Womanpuncher69

Althusser Never Read Marx

Fr?

"The generous interpretation of Althusser is that he wasn’t bad at Marx; he was just iconoclastic: that, to borrow from Marianne Moore, his was imaginary Marxism but with real toads in it. Althusser claimed that he was “correcting” Marx, improving him and restoring to his work the clarity and coherency Althusser believed it lacked—thus “mastering his own thought better than he had done.” Althusser also admitted to have not read too much Marx when he first began to write Marxist theory, explaining that his philosophical method was not to read philosophical texts closely or entirely but to “bore” into them and draw a “philosophical core sample” from which he would intuit the content of the whole. He was a philosopher who believed he needed “no recourse to libraries,” and when it comes to his self-described liberation of Marx (who he considered “a prisoner of the theoretical constraints of his day”), it shows."

it's a theory some people have but he definitely did not thoroughly read marx

Althusser Strangled His Wife

AltBussy

this is actually me just learning this info for the first time only having read random essays and not the future lasts forever

its honestly really sad to think that the leftist tradition is filled with so many bright and brilliant people also being constrained to their material conditions and disappearing off the face of the earth with little to no regard.

just drills home the point that history is overrated and taking care of the things and people around you are ultimately the most important thing for a revolutionary to do regardless of context.

Althussy

Ngl that's kinda hard

American foreign policy strikes again

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