No dead communist can contribute to mass movements anymore in that case. And ask yourself "who" it would cost? Those current mass movements embody a heck of a lot of things. Praising Che costs us a decent amount of propagandized people who worry about being called out by Gusanos, doesn't mean we shouldn't do so. Don't worry about the optics or cost/benefit analysis. Find your ideology and stick to it, form your own understanding of it, and don't let the vague public's possible opinion influence you like that.
It also does help movements in Russia, as well as comrades who are acutely aware of the debt owed to Stalin if their family was nearly killed in the Holocaust; ag Finklestein's parents
I'm mocking the idea that ideology is good, ideology is bad people. Theory, knowledge, and practice are good. Just choosing a side and not thinking about it is counter revolutionary
No, I agree, but you have to remember that ideology and material reality are always at odds. Ideology without dialectic and science leads to utopianism or whatever the fuck libs have going on.
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Writing shouldn't be the litmus test of how good a comrade was. Otherwise Zapata would be meaningless.
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No dead communist can contribute to mass movements anymore in that case. And ask yourself "who" it would cost? Those current mass movements embody a heck of a lot of things. Praising Che costs us a decent amount of propagandized people who worry about being called out by Gusanos, doesn't mean we shouldn't do so. Don't worry about the optics or cost/benefit analysis. Find your ideology and stick to it, form your own understanding of it, and don't let the vague public's possible opinion influence you like that.
It also does help movements in Russia, as well as comrades who are acutely aware of the debt owed to Stalin if their family was nearly killed in the Holocaust; ag Finklestein's parents
:zizek:
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I'm mocking the idea that ideology is good, ideology is bad people. Theory, knowledge, and practice are good. Just choosing a side and not thinking about it is counter revolutionary
From Society of the Spectacle
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No, I agree, but you have to remember that ideology and material reality are always at odds. Ideology without dialectic and science leads to utopianism or whatever the fuck libs have going on.
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Stalin wrote a lot what are you talking about. He wrote almost as much as Lenin
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Definitely add some of his works to your reading list