Comrade Cuba and Vietnam did not relax their Dotp. Its form changed over time (as it would be expected) as socialist ideology became hegemonic.
Uhm, i think we're thinking about the same thing.
Further would you have been one of those whining about the human rights of executed mafioso and US collaborators when the Cubans were shooting dissenters in the 70s when their dotp was neither hegemonic nor consolidated?
No. But i think that was clear until now too.
Cuba has an intelligence agency that has been running rings around US intelligence particularly since 19. The dotp consolidated and strengthened itself in the form of State power to the point they can laugh at the turncoats and and cia paid traitors that wave banners saying “down with >socialism!” Whenever a US delegate visits. In the 60s or 70s those people would probably be in a basement with a bag on their head.
But Cuba has ideoligcal hegemony and support for the proletarian state and Cuban intelligence good enough to leak their finances linking them to Cia. The population laughs and understands they’re traitors etc.
That's great news, so the anarchists who were chased away from Cuba can go back and the ones currently imprisoned can be released, as they're not a threat to the state, right?
Further as heroic as the Cuban and Vietnamese struggles were they largely were helped by the fact the nationalists expressed their nationalism through the communists in the struggle for national liberation. They were also not put through the trial of two world wars. The >nationalists/white guardists/embittered kulaks/monarchists and conservatives in Russia expressed their nationalism as a fight against Bolshevism which inevitably led to them collaborating with Nazis in ww2.
The vietnamese did not have to deal with entire regions of the Soviet union who were susceptible to nazi ideology as the entirety of Eastern europe and some russians were
The dotp of Russia was, by the historical and material conditions of the period from 1917-1945, by necessity much more brutal than Cuba and Vietnam.
That's understandable, but the problem is still not brutality in itself, it's excess, unnecessary brutality against people who were a, not a threat to the communist hegemony and b, were also among the poorest of Russia.
And if that's what is needed in order to a socialist revolution to succeed (i don't think so and reading Lenin hasn't convinced me that there's only one way) it spells really bleak for any first world country where anticommunism is rampant.
Yes by the central committee
This cartoonish display that reds hunger for power needs to go in the bin.
The display is not that reds hunger for power and i'm not basing my arguments on Chomsky, so this flew right by me.
The display is that the poor are in every country of the world the biggest pool of power. And if they get in the wrong hands and there's a state apparatus they can get ahold of you'll get Mussolini, you'll get Hitler you'll get Trump or you'll get Orbán. There are two ways to counter that, you try to hijack the state and if you succeed there's almost always a civil war brewing or you build a bottom-up movement that won't go away even if the people "finding the revolutionary way for them" are gone. Much like it's happening in Bolivia for example.
Uhm, i think we're thinking about the same thing.
No. But i think that was clear until now too.
That's great news, so the anarchists who were chased away from Cuba can go back and the ones currently imprisoned can be released, as they're not a threat to the state, right?
That's understandable, but the problem is still not brutality in itself, it's excess, unnecessary brutality against people who were a, not a threat to the communist hegemony and b, were also among the poorest of Russia.
And if that's what is needed in order to a socialist revolution to succeed (i don't think so and reading Lenin hasn't convinced me that there's only one way) it spells really bleak for any first world country where anticommunism is rampant.
The display is not that reds hunger for power and i'm not basing my arguments on Chomsky, so this flew right by me.
The display is that the poor are in every country of the world the biggest pool of power. And if they get in the wrong hands and there's a state apparatus they can get ahold of you'll get Mussolini, you'll get Hitler you'll get Trump or you'll get Orbán. There are two ways to counter that, you try to hijack the state and if you succeed there's almost always a civil war brewing or you build a bottom-up movement that won't go away even if the people "finding the revolutionary way for them" are gone. Much like it's happening in Bolivia for example.