Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life. I think China is a socialist country, and Vietnam is a socialist nation as well. And they insist that they have introduced all the necessary reforms in order to motivate national development and to continue seeking the objectives of socialism.
- Fidel Castro
If someone is interested in what the Cubans’ opinion is on certain questions, he should ask the [North] Koreans. And if someone asks what [North] Korea’s standpoint may be in certain cases, he can safely ask the Cubans about that. Our views are completely identical in everything.
- Raul Castro
I believe Stalin made big mistakes but also showed great wisdom.
- Fidel Castro (again)
It's funny because actual french communists have a slogan which is "Roussel isn't a comrade" (Roussel being the guy on the picture)
The Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France (pole for communist rebirth in France) is the closest thing from a proper Marxist-Leninist vanguard party we have in France, though they don't call themselves a communist party because from the words off one of their main spokesperson (paraphrasing cause I don't remember the exact quote) "We don't say we're a party because we're materialists [...] If I stand up and call myself a vanguard but when I walk out and turn around no one is following me, I'm not a vanguard". One of their stated goal as an organization is to rebuild a proper vanguard communist party in France.
Out of all the parties I've looked at the PRCF is the only one I seriously consider joining.
I think it's the one with the best line currently in France but I also heard that they use French flags in protests and marches, what's up with that?
My litmus tests for parties are how they see themselves as relating to the proletariat, their line on LGBT issues, their line on China, and finally their position on decol if they are a colonizer. PRCF is good on China and LGBT, didn't find much about decol and the little I did find was a little eyebrow-raising but requires more investigation.
From what I've gathered so far:
Because of the tri-color flag's history as the main popular symbol of the French revolution, then as one of the symbols of the Paris Commune, then as one of the symbols of the French resistance against Nazi occupation, the tri-color flag is before all a symbol made and used by the people and it's use by the diverse bourgeois governments of France is illegitimate.
The PRCF also look up to the revolutionaries of the French revolution like Roberts Pierre because TL;DR: Roberts Pierre was actually kinda based for a lib and the narrative of the Terror and him being a psychopath who cut peoples heads for no reasons is mostly lies created by his political opponents after his death and reproduced until the present day by bourgeois scared that the legacy of past revolutionaries might give peoples the "wrong idea".
This is basically why they use the tri-color flag I think.
On decolonization I need to learn more about their position but I at least know that they support the recent New-caledonians/Kanaks riot and blame Macron for the violence, and that they support the right of Kanaky to claim it's independence. And they also oppose the Israel.
EDIT : Totally forgot about the Parti Révolutionnaire Communiste Français which could be considered the one true French Communist Party however they're very small right now. By insane chance the very next post in my feed mentioned it
There are no orgs that can claim that title. The Parti Communiste Français has entirely dropped communism. They're actually the least left wing of all. La France Insoumise is the biggest attempt at reformist movement that at least incorporate decent geopolitics, LGBT+ rights and anti-colonialism. They do have some Marxists in the backstage running the show but they're still electoralists and refuse to structure themselves as a disciplined party meaning they also have a lot of weirdos. At their left there are only Trotskystes : Lutte Ouvrière is the most paranoid, Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste the most fractured with a billion tendencies
Seems like people need to force the PCF to drop their name, if they don't want to be communist
lol average western leftcom, they would hate fidel if he was still alive too
What happened to “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” - Che
Staline sounds so cute and feminine. im making that my legal name
Contrepoint: most of the formal, and possiblement political Marxist-Leninist language we utilise are French-derived
- Showhon hon hon you hate ze fRRench but you still say "Bourgeoisie"
I don't hate French people, Jacque...
But I think French people are as good as any
people...Otherwise, nothing special...
The "e" is there, so it sounds like Stalin... otherwise, it'd sound like Stalan
Same with "Poutine" for Putin, otherwise, it would sound like "Put-n"...
like how we accept the incorrect french pronunciation for Chopin. its not “showpan”, he was Polish so it would have been spelled “Szopen” and pronounced “showpen”
I wonder if there's a linguistic connection between that Szopen and the Schopen in Schopenhauer
Yes. Chopin had a French name because his dad was a Frenchman, and French and German have tons of the same names because of how much history and ancestry they share. Schopen is a legit German name with many derivations like Schopenhauer.
Szopen in Polish is just straight polonisation of Chopin due to his popularity, but what i said above about French and German is also accurate about Polish and German so there are some people in Poland with the Schopen and similar names.
This revisionist rat will force me to go...THERMONUCLEAR.
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The lemmygrad proletariat yearns for the funny winsconcom copypasta.
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What's behind this retconning of Fidel into a lib? I see it everywhere, and it's annoying as hell.
Also, the comic book font and those three big exclamation points are really not helping me take this exercise seriously.
The comic book font is because it's actually a show where political personalities go to a classroom of children to tell them about politics.
So yeah, it's a "communist" doing anti-communist propaganda for impressionable elementary school children. It's even worse than the image shows.
Something something, revolutionary figures with enduring popularity get coopted into the narrative of the establishment
See it in America with MLK jr, Fidel died and is now "safe" to endorse
First off, the exercise seems like something a youtuber would do, not the leader of a political party. Can you imagine the look Secretary Xi would give you if you asked him to do something like this? Absolute waste of time.
Secondly, yeah I am not surprised that the PCF is revisionist.
Whenever anybody does that I always think of Mac from always sunny:
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This is why I said I'll take 5% of the mean shit I say about the French and their largest communist party back with their electoral success.
Pôle de renaissance communiste en France is where its really at.
Honestly, as much as I can bash him... at least he supports some sort of AES leader, if not the nation itself...
Still, ultra shit ass move...
I prefered to post it in Shit Reactionaries Say, because his "communist" party is actually socdem (since the 90s at least) and he made a lot of reactionary statements about food choices, he's been seen parading with a right wing police union, and he's publicly very critical of political parties to the left of his. He's known for not being trustworthy, as someone else here already said, “Roussel isn’t a comrade” is a popular slogan amongst the rest of the left.
(since the 90s at least)
They were always shit and pro colonialism
Not always, back in the beginning it was a little better on those things, Ho Chi Minh was a founding member after all.
"reactionary statements about food choices"
are yall literally gatekeeping what kinda food ppl eat
Yeah. I'm not eating whatever the fuck Anglos consider "food".
if i were there i would have grabbed the pas camarade sign and taped it to his face
Putting it where it belong
