• pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Trotskyist orgs relentlessly bash socialist countries.

    I have seen this a lot. Like there are no currently succesful socialist countries. Are they just waiting for world revoluton?

    But I also don’t want to be yet another leftist that believes there theory is the best and everyone could just end leftist fighting if they became a [insert my prefered leftist theory]

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      You can’t end leftist infighting by hoping for everyone to become the same kind of leftist, especially because different tendencies are often influenced by the given class character of a country. It’s why agrarian communists are more likely to be Maoists, like what’s found in the Naxalites, whereas western communists tend to be Trots. Marxism-Leninism is found everywhere, because it’s the tendency that has most been tested in real life.