Jul 27, 2022·2 replies
Jul 27, 2022·2 replieshttps://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1552051455204507648krishna boundBiden taking the angle of being more pro-cop than Trump is hilarious
- Jul 27, 2022·edited
LeinRambling post
I know I'd fall on the far left of the political spectrum but idk where if we were to get more detailed. If you asked me how I view the world i would say Marxism, World Systems Theory, and Long Duree History help me understand it. I could tell you what left tendencies I'm against: Anarchism because it's a utopian dead end, Social Democracy because it's hardwired to maintain Capitalism, Stalinism because it's a compromise which midwifes Capitalism, Market Socialism because its just Capitalism, etc. I haven't read enough Trotsky or other Ultra leftists (I think Trotsky is considered an ultra) to say for sure but I think I mostly agree with their diagnoses of the rightward turn of most socialist projects. But I think that's all they can really offer because I think their degeneration was overdetermined and "if only they had just done X" sounds idealistic to me idk.
Maybe I'm overlooking agency too much but in my mind what determines the outcome of a revolution is ultimately the result of class composition, technology available, the international situation, etc. over the long term. So maybe the French could've done a kind of pre-industrial Socialism in the 1790s but the fact it turned out the way it did makes more sense to me.
I think the USSR dissolving was a bad thing but not because it ended a socialist project, I think that ended a long time ago and if it had continued it would probably look a lot like modern China. The reason I think it was a bad event is because what followed was shock implementation of capitalism and end of trade privileges to places like Cuba and North Korea. These privileges along with all the good that was still left within ther USSR would've been slowly phased out instead to minimize suffering like in China.
I haven't read enough Mao to get a good grip on his theory like Lenin but I think the Cultural Revolution should have succeeded at its goal, which I understand as taking the wheel back from a state and party apparatus steering China towards Capitalism but the fact that Mao nipped it in the bud and material conditions (im assuming, idk) means we got modern China instead.
When I talk about this to other ppl online they usually say it's too pessimistic to view all these project as overdetermined to fail in giving us Communism and I kinda agree it puts you in a doomer mentality. If I'd been in Moscow or Beijing I'd have assumed we could still do it and moved off that assumption. There's always contingencies and we never know when the world will be "materially ready for Communism".
on the cultural revolution part is was basically an intensified line struggle between the rightest and leftist in the party. From the leftist pov a way to get the revisionist out the party and bringing back the revolutionary spirit. Well that’s a simplified way to describe it, the cultural revolution was many things another aspect of it was going to the masses and using their creative energy to build a new super structure rather you can see this in the shanghai commune that got set up and through Zhang Chunqiao excellent work there prevented it from turning it a bunch of rebel factions fighting among each other. Though later to be replaced by the revolutionary committee, reasoning be the commune system is too ahead of it’s time.
Though the cultural revolution does need to be refined there were many problems with it like who were the revisionist, it was indicated that 95% of the cadres were good cadres but just fooled by the wrong line, the question of who they were was still unanswered and would be a massive determinant to the left line of the cultural revolution. Also other parts like how do you keep a revolution under a state system without it breaking the state essentially, Zhou Enlai was picked to keep the unity of the state but would later be accused of being a rightist and siding with them after the Wuhan incident.
Jul 27, 2022Womanpuncher69the cursed radio free europe watermark on the first pic 🤢
Fixed it
- Jul 27, 2022Scratchin Mamba
Biden taking the angle of being more pro-cop than Trump is hilarious
dark brandon
- Jul 27, 2022·1 reply
Jul 27, 2022https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1552173594678939648krishna bound “If you don’t like it then don’t come !!!” Has, quite finally, caught up to the American economy
- Jul 27, 2022·1 reply
Adorno influence might be one of the worst on the western left
- Jul 27, 2022Womanpuncher69
Adorno influence might be one of the worst on the western left
Dudes from my neck of the woods so everyone references him and stuff
- Jul 27, 2022·edited·1 reply
New GTA in Vice City and Cuba. The anti communist propaganda is about to be insane. I am willing to bet there will be missions assassinating Castro stand-ins. A decade of YouTubers is gonna gobble this stuff up. They also did some radlib changes to the company structure. Gonna be a mess
- Jul 27, 2022·1 replySEGA GOON· edited
New GTA in Vice City and Cuba. The anti communist propaganda is about to be insane. I am willing to bet there will be missions assassinating Castro stand-ins. A decade of YouTubers is gonna gobble this stuff up. They also did some radlib changes to the company structure. Gonna be a mess
the new red scare is fully in effect
- Jul 27, 2022Womanpuncher69
the new red scare is fully in effect
The ghost of Castro haunts Silicon Valley nerds...
- Jul 27, 2022·1 reply
“ The Sichuan authorities also shot numerous rebels to death in many places such as in Wanxian, Yibing and Ludian. Take Wanxian for example, the Army killed more than 170 rebels, including some children. Premier Zhou argued Marshal Ye should take responsibility for these deaths.38 The most shocking slaughter of rebels in the February Suppression took place in Qinghai Province. Troops dispatched by the Qinghai Military District on orders from the vice-commander Zhao Yongfu besieged the Qinghai Daily building controlled by the rebels. Ten days after this, on February 23, a bone-chilling killing happened. Among several thousand rebels staying in the Qinghai Daily building,
more than 300 were killed, and many more were wounded by gun fire and all the rest were captured as prisoners. Upon learning of the mass killing from Zhao Yufu’s report, Marshal Ye Jianying not only got very excited, shouting “Good killing! Good killing!”can’t take any dengist seriously after learning about the white terror they inflicted during the CR
- Jul 27, 2022·1 replyWomanpuncher69
“ The Sichuan authorities also shot numerous rebels to death in many places such as in Wanxian, Yibing and Ludian. Take Wanxian for example, the Army killed more than 170 rebels, including some children. Premier Zhou argued Marshal Ye should take responsibility for these deaths.38 The most shocking slaughter of rebels in the February Suppression took place in Qinghai Province. Troops dispatched by the Qinghai Military District on orders from the vice-commander Zhao Yongfu besieged the Qinghai Daily building controlled by the rebels. Ten days after this, on February 23, a bone-chilling killing happened. Among several thousand rebels staying in the Qinghai Daily building,
more than 300 were killed, and many more were wounded by gun fire and all the rest were captured as prisoners. Upon learning of the mass killing from Zhao Yufu’s report, Marshal Ye Jianying not only got very excited, shouting “Good killing! Good killing!”can’t take any dengist seriously after learning about the white terror they inflicted during the CR
Sichuan was also the first province under Deng to do capitalist reform iirc?
- Jul 27, 2022·edited·1 replyhttps://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1552051455204507648krishna bound
Dude literally hasn’t even blinked once
- Jul 27, 2022krishna bound
Sichuan was also the first province under Deng to do capitalist reform iirc?
yeah it was one of the first
- Jul 27, 2022Scratchin Mamba
Biden taking the angle of being more pro-cop than Trump is hilarious
He's stuck in the 20th century. The centrist voters he's chasing simply don't exist anymore.
Jul 27, 2022The Labor party
Jul 27, 2022·1 replyhttps://twitter.com/chribbzz/status/1552055852386893824space0cadetDude literally hasn’t even blinked once
that mf dead bruh
- Jul 27, 2022·1 replyspongebob
that mf dead bruh
weekend at biden's
- Jul 27, 2022krishna bound
weekend at biden's
the 3 year long weekend at bidens
Jul 27, 2022Scratchin MambaThe only necessary political theory
We here baby
- Jul 27, 2022·1 reply
Just saw a super overpriced Marx piggybank
- Jul 27, 2022kiddash3r
Just saw a super overpriced Marx piggybank
- Jul 27, 2022·1 reply
need to read more on Xi to see how he’s rectifying the previous compete abandonment of marxism from previous post-mao leaders