Early on June 24, Vladimir Putin addressed Russia about the unfolding rebellion of the Wagner private military company, saying that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion is “pushing the country toward anar...

Statements by Movement of Irkutsk Anarchists and Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists, translated by CrimethInc.

In the current situation around the Wagner mutiny, there is no side we can choose but ourselves.

We do not flatter ourselves: the onset of this moment could take some time. From the February revolution (during which the generals participated in removing the Tsar) to the October revolution, nine months passed. From the Kornilov rebellion to October, two months.

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neither the Putin regime nor Prigozhinsky are our friends. In this fight between two cannibals, anarchists should stay away—let them bleed each other as much as possible.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    The Trotskyists wanted the Chinese communists to do Lenin’s “revolutionary defeatism” by abandoning collaboration with the national bourgeoisie (i.e. the KMT), but instead act on defeating the KMT government right when the Imperial Japanese Army was rampaging through China.

    Between this and Stalin wanting the CPC to self-liquidate and join the KMT, I'm glad Mao completely ignored both their terrible advice.

    • yastreb
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      1 year ago

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      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        What did Chen do after that? Did he try to make a fourth (/fifth?) camp?

        • yastreb
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          1 year ago

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    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Stalin was incorrect, but it wasn't as terrible advice at the time as it may look today. The KMT was a very, uh, dynamic organization that went through many different phases.