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(Just gonna put out there that this is a common myth among neonazis. An Indian Affairs officer coined the term)
Anyway, I’m shocked Mr. Resting-Dipshit-Face’s sub reclined into open fascism.
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Stalin invented cancelling. Cancel culture is Stalinism.
I like how often this one crops up in right-wing circles, given that it's demonstrably false and makes no sense if you think about it for two seconds. Like, Jim Crow was already ongoing at the time but apparently wasn't racist until Trotsky invented the word "racist"?
The "everything was fine until [spooky external force] agitated things" is a trope as old as Reconstruction.
they probably think slavery wasn't racist
and they definitely think Native American genocide wasn't racist
These people have never even read the articles of confederate succession.
Their own ancestors wrote "its about race" over and over again. Its all they fucking cared about. Slavery was almost an afterthought to the greater project of white supremacy.
yes, Yes!! now we can finally defeat all those Marxist corporations
It's the concept of ingroup and outgroup based on clan membership. Clans banded together into a tribe, tribes banded together as a nation. Stronger Together, eh? Of course it's not the Westphalian concept of a nation-state with a customs service and all, but that's where this comes from. We're the ingroup, The Other is the outgroup.
Globalism and some other ideologies wish to remove all these borders and put everyone together in the same ingroup. That's why anyone who doesn't want to go along with this is treated as the outgroup.
It's a challenge to sympathize with people you are barely aware of. One is at least aware of their neighbors. This doesn't really need to be a nation-state and the nation-state itself tries to co-opt this tendency, turn it into nationalism, create an individual identity out of it.
How can you know that race is made up when you never learned history, checkmate
idk why people are so anti-trot, look where the fuck russia and the rest of the world is, did socialism in one country work out?
like i understand not having a positive opinion, but having such an anti Trotsky opinion seems odd unless you just are an epic stalinist memer doing it as a joke
did socialism in one country work out?
This is the same argument chuds use against communism.
no? because i am talking about internationalism/pushing revolution around the world, not hurr durr communism nevar work/not real communism
You think focusing on exporting arms and ammunition out of the USSR and gambling them on other revolutions in the lead-up to the second world war would have been a better idea than reinforcing the Soviet Union where the revolution had already won and was able to wage a genuine existential threat to global capital for 70 years and crush axis fascism
The cold war was more or less unwinnable, especially after the Sino Soviet split. There's a reason basically all the Bolsheviks thought permanent revolution was the worse option. Especially considering how weak the eastern european communist parties were (exported revolutions) compared to the CPSU and CPC.
Nevermind that the Soviet Union and China managed to create Cuba, the DPRK, Laos and Vietnam and were actively exporting revolution where they thought they could succwed.
The amount of soviet involvement required in Germany during the 30s to have the communists come out on top (especially since the SDP was anti communist and non cooperative to its core) would be paramount to starting a full scale civil war there and then being forced to directly being involved military wise for the german communists in a open proxy war against the liberal/right wing side that would be backed by the entirety of global capital while you are...the USSR of the 30s. At a point where the USSR couldnt project that kind of power let alone defend from it . They industrialization, militarization , modernization etc wherent even halfway done. Chosing to openly wage a proxy war in germany and spain during the state of material and military development they were in the 30s would be paramount to suicide with an extremely high chance of those countries NOT turning red, being invaded by fascism while in a much worse position or just not achieving the objectives in spain and germany and collapsing internaly much earlier
After the war again the USSR had to rebuild the entire eastern front from rubble without imperialist or colonial extraction to back that transformation up . What particular revolution post WW2 you think about where the USSR should have been much more involved ? Vietnam ? How much more ? They still won there and had a pro soviet state. Cuba? They did. Join in on the Greek civil war in the 40s? Maybe. I am greek so this is really interesting what if tho i cant help but think this would end up in a Korean war situation and due to it being a war on european soil again years after WWII it could have expanded into even worse outcomes
I agree with everything you’re saying but you’re giving waaaaay to much credit to China for revolutions in other countries. China left SU on an island when it came to ideological alignment in foreign policy, to say China was a major positive contributor to the Cuban revolution and even Vietnam is a bit off mark with what actually happened
Soviet Union and China managed to create Cuba, the DPRK, Laos and Vietnam
this but more, Germany, France, etc..
The cold war was more or less unwinnable
because the USSR had no major allies who were ideologically aligned with them after world war 2 due to their isolationist perspective in the previous years. the national bourgeois in the west was able to suppress socialist movements.
I'm not saying it 100% would be better, I'm saying socialism in one country 100% was a failure in the USSR, so why are people so ardently anti Trot when his perspective has not been shown to be a failure?
Germany when ? During the 10s and 20s? This isnt Stalin's policy vs Trotsky's policy. Trotsky was there and backed the party's foreign policy approach on those issues ?
In the 30s?
The amount of soviet involvement required in Germany during the 30s to have the communists come out on top (especially since most of the SDP was anti communist and non cooperative to its core) would be paramount to starting a full scale civil war there and then being forced to directly being involved military wise for the german communists in a open proxy war against the liberal/right wing side that would be backed by the entirety of global capital while you are…the USSR of the 30s. At a point where the USSR couldnt project that kind of power let alone defend from it and a failure of that attempt would leave them extremely weak. The industrialization, militarization , modernization etc wherent even halfway done. Chosing what would logicaly lead to open proxy war in germany and spain during the state of development and organization they were in the 30s would be paramount to suicide imo with an extremely high chance of those countries NOT turning red, USSR invaded by the subsequent fascism while in a much worse position or just not achieving the objectives in spain and germany and collapsing internaly much earlier and never having even an "eastern bloc" allied to them
I prefer communists that didn't get their head split open with an ice pick.
The USSR failed because it didn't export revolution enough? It imploded, so this would require a "the best defense is a good offense" style of argument.
Also, China is an example of the opposite case. They are modest in supporting revolution elsewhere, happily trade with the most imperialist of imperialists, and focus heavily on domestic conditions.
How do you explain the subsequent revolutions that happened after ww2. The soviet Union was able to establish trade relations through the COMINTERN. Of course that had its own problems but I don't see how these problems would have not arisen if the German Rebolution succeeded
What? The SU became the joint strongest world super power. Maybe on a very surface level, the SU didn’t achieve communism in every country and focused on communism in one but at the end of the day it lent support to communist struggles world over in a way no country has ever done.
It’s fall came because its largest natural allies ie fucking China, chose exactly what you’re criticizing the soviet union for: focusing on communism in one country and abandoning any support for the soviet union.
How can we know that Trotsky would do any better?
Oh right, we can't.
yes, that is my point. we know how the USSR turned out. Unless you think the state of the world is cool and good i am willing to gamble
internationalism/Trotsky's ideology over socialism in one state the ussr during that period
Alright, but that didn't happen, so we have no way of knowing if that would have given us a better outcome.
I prefer to relate to actual reality, not some fantasy alternative.
so why be anti-trot when his ideological perspective was not applied?
Soviet Union literally spend the entire 20s trying to export revolution and the only success was Mongolia. Everything else from Germany to Bulgaria was a massive failure. Socialism in one country was a response to this failures, as the need to build industrial and military strength first became apparent. When USSR was in the position to export revolution, it did (the entire Eastern Europe, support for China, Vietnam, Cuba, African socialists).
I'm anti-trot in that I have yet to encounter a more brainwormed group of individuals than Trotskyists and I would rather not be around the people who identify as such, but Trotsky himself I actually do respect quite a bit. Can't be overstated how important he was to the Revolution and Civil War, and he did genuinely make good theoretical contributions, like his analysis of Fascism for example. Shame he dedicated the latter part of his life to being a saboteur, but oh well. I know icepick memes are epic funny but I feel like century-old sectarian feuds are irrelevant when the USSR doesn't exist anymore in the first place.
a more brainwormed group of individuals than Trotskyists
Literally anyone right of demsocs.
Trotsky's takes and proposals were never even remotely popular or supported within the party , even during Lenin. It is a nice what if but this isnt a power struggle where Stalin won while trotsky realisticaly could have too, he never came close to being the leading or popular figure within the party politicaly . That shows that maybe his policies and ideology cant be confined to the "global revolution and international stuff" and included a ton of economic and domestic policies that both that the party didnt support and we have no reason to believe that them being ennacted "if trotsky was the man" would lead to comperable successes in industrial, economic and cultural development and stability
idk why people are so anti-trot
Nobody likes associating with a loser, and whatever may be said of Leon Trotsky he went out like a bitch. If Stalin was the guy with an ice-pick in his head, 80 years ago, I imagine we'd be seeing a lot of the memes reversed.
having such an anti Trotsky opinion seems odd unless you just are an epic stalinist memer doing it as a joke
Honestly, the fall-out after Lenin's death between two of the leading lights of the first great successful Soviet Revolution fucked the movement hard. And we should look at it as nothing short of a tragedy. People like to shit on the "Great Man of History" theory, but I have to wonder what Russia would look like today if Leon and Joe had patched things up and done a proper Founding Fathers two-step, a la Jefferson and Adams, rather than going at each others' throats.
If I have a choice between going back in time and killing Hitler, and making sure Stalin and Trotsky are friends, I know which one I'm doing.
Personally, because so many self described Trotskyist orgs are fucking deranged. Whether it's supporting the US invasion of Libya or claiming metoo has gone too far, it tends to be bad. That being said some old living marxism stuff was hilarious in a Ben Garrison kind of way.
I don't even fully understand what makes all these groups trotskyist, and I would be willing to believe that some trot orgs are actually decent
Actually Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction, several dictionaries were found in his palaces. He were ready to strike at any moment and use mean words against America.
Saddam was hours from calling the US racist before we got him.
Thank the troops, everyone. We came so close to destruction.
It was double-edged, as he was also on the verge of releasing evidence that would be used to indict and prosecute Hillary Clinton. Thanks to George Bush's rashness, Hillary remains at large.
I can confirm that this is, in fact, true. I looked up racism in the dictionary, and this is what I found. It's wild that nobody in the mainstream media will talk about this.
It's not true, but Trotsky was 70% right, 30% wrong, Stalin actually implemented a bunch of his economic policy positions, and you should read his nerd ass as long as you're not gonna go weird trot on us.
One of the most important players in the first lasting AES experiment spent the rest of his life trying to dismantle it over petty grievance.
Not like I'd expect different from most current leftists if they got sidelined tbh :leftist:
We've seen how people act when they're banned from a goddamn message board imagine that type of babyrage but with political power lmao
P.S. Leftist4208=D has sent us a silly reply video. We shall neither post it nor reply to them.
Yes, that's the 30%. but the anti-AES stuff was mostly at the end of his life, and really only after he changed his definition of the SU from Deformed Workers State (ie. I'm butthurt that I lost vs Stalin.) to removedd Workers State (ie. I've imbibed the worst brainworms about the Great Purge) and dropped critical support.
Most of the real damage was done after his death by Trotskyist splinters, largely Cliffites. Not to say he didn't start it, but his early work is pretty solid and while Permanent Revolution and Transitional Program are flawed, any leftist with a good grounding in more foundational works will gain a lot from reading them.
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EDIT: I'm actually not so sure about this...I'd like to think the German invasion of the SU would give him pause and resume critical support...but then he always was a giant edgelord so...
In any case, he seemed to be on the verge of death from high blood pressure anyway.
People should just keep replying "racism" to trigger him lol
Maybe the reason why Nazis have a pathological obsession with Trotsky in particular was because of all the sex and cucking.
Since my arrival here, my poor dick hasn't even once gotten hard. It seems that it doesn't even exist. It too is resting, after the tension of the past few days. But there isn't only that - I also, with all my heart, I think with tenderness about the softness of your dear old pussy. I want to fuck it, and push my tongue in its depths. Nataliochka, my dear, I want to fuck you with all my strength, with my tongue and my cock.
- Leon Trotsky, revolutionary
Trotsky had decent ideas... If society was already primed for socialism. E.g. The idea of global revolution was good, it just wasn't really valid at the time in which he had influence. Then he doubled down, at which point he was a threat to the revolutionary government. If he had tempered his ideals with some of Stalin's I think there could have been better progress during the Cold War.
But that's not what happened, so he can piss off I guess.
trotsky didn’t invent the term, he did popularize it with its relation/describing fascism though
healthy ethnocentric interests
More and more racists are saying it.
