https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1439032801442025472
Absolutely true, they'd be calling him a dictator or a strongman, they'd embargo and sanction Burkina Faso then claim that the resulting humanitarian disaster was Sankara "purposely starving his own people"
But you see our progressive politicians have to abide by the state department and Democratic Party handbook and be contradictory
this is an epic rap battles of history video in the making
imagine raising a chlld that based, couldn't be donald harris or joseph buttigieg
I thought for a second that this was some weird joke I didn’t understand about Trump and Biden but no those really are their names
the fact that Lula is considered a leftist leader shows us how low the "bona fide leftist" bar is
Not to sound too supportive of reformism, but it's all baby steps till it isn't.
this notion that reality moves in slow increments is anti-dialectic
that said, even if it wasn't - lula actively works to subvert and/or disarm any kind of growing far-left movement in the country, so his baby steps are actually getting in our way, not paving it for us
And yet it was still important to oppose the coup. Wild how anti imperialism is mad complicated.
That said, if there was a stronger left in Brazil, maybe he'd still be in office.
And yet it was still important to oppose the coup.
to oppose what coup? if you mean the recent events, lula didn't do shit - like, seriously, he really didn't. the only people going out that day were the communists and anarchists, the shitlibs from the PT not only stayed home but they even tried to discourage us from leaving lmao
the main current line of the PT is to basically "keep the peace, wait for the elections and win"
the PT aren't even socdems at this point, they're just lame centrists, and some relevant members are actually right-wingers (rui costa, the governor of a large state here, is right-wing as fuck, could easily be a republican in the US)
Deng Xiaoping :deng-cowboy: getting the imperial core to give you its manufacturing base and fund the development of your productive forces until you've surpassed them and now they're big mad but at your mercy... chad move
haha Getting the imperial core to give you its manufacturing base in exchange for stabbing the USSR in the back and isolating them haha so based so cool
fuck Deng.
The Sino-Soviet split was led more by the Soviets than China and the bulk happened before Deng.
It wasn't Deng that stabbed the USSR in the back though lol, if anything Deng's shitty foreign policy carried over from Mao
Mao might have started it but Deng rubberstamped the sino-soviet split after his meeting with Khruschev.
Before he became Chairman, Deng was still in his mother's womb and not part of the Chinese leadership and head of the military. Everyone knows that.
Yeah the USSR of the 80s was definitely worth dealing with and not entirely revisionist and crumbling. Lmao
Calling Gorby and Khrushchev revisionist and stanning literal state capitalist Deng. How that does that fucking work in your brains lmao?
China is still around and thriving largely because of Deng. Changing tactics isn't revisionism, attempting to rewrite history is.
definitely worth dealing with and not entirely revisionist and crumbling.
proceeds to explain how 'changing tactics' ie comprehensive capitalist reform isn't revisionism.
All you're doing is using marketing language.
Blaming the Sino-Soviet split on Deng is revisionist. If we're looking at results, China still exists and the communist project there is doing great. Have you checked in on the USSR recently?
What's revisionist is criticising USSR for deStalinization and then proceeding to do the same thing to Mao's policies.
China still exists and the communist project there is doing great.
A project so dead that Xi is being praised for attempting to revive it. It's going great.
Castro's probably the right answer but both of Ilhan's answers are good.
Yeah but he wasn't killed early on or arrested for reformism so we cannot praise him
That would mean confronting the fact that the cia murdering him was bad so probably not
They can just conveniently gloss over that and do some finger wagging at Pinochet, like they do with many other things
I've met libs who praised his criticism of the excesses of the communist movement that put him in power
Which is strange considering the communist movement was proven correct and then some.
Glory to the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front and those who joined it despite their party being forced underground already and their lives threatened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGyjkMt3kw
edit: we need a FPMR emote
