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161·5 days agoShow me someone claiming modern day Russia is communist. I usually do not actually see this.
12·6 days agoThey didn’t cause the civil war, they attacked them during it.
The goat. (It’s from Blackshirts and Reds, specifically the Left Anticommunism chapter)Also Yellow.
62·9 days agoChina has a naval one in Djibouti.
Yup, I haven’t even gotten more than 2 books in (This Soviet World -> [Russian] Justice -> From Prisons to Educational Institutions) and I’ve already hit a russian book.
I did actually start learning Russian. It makes a lot of sense considering my interest in Soviet history.
or worse 1-bit binary
A binary of Left=Anti-capitalism, and Right=Pro-capitalism is actually useful, whereas the compass isn’t.
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This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: Who was right?
In Guatemala, was it Arbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party?
Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the d’etente between the Soviets and Washington.
Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported – what the rich countries said, rather than what they did.
That group was annihilated.
- Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method
I support Labour Colonies.
That makes me LibLeft
The problem here is your understanding of socialism. European countries such as Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (etc.) have not had socialism. They have had social democracy, capitalism with social safety nets.
Marx was born in 1818. Engels was born in 1820.
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