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Marxist-Leninist ☭

Interested in Marxism-Leninism, but don’t know where to start? Check out my Read Theory, Darn it! introductory reading list!

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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • Yanukovych taking the Russian loan is why the west couped him, though.

    It’s pretty safe to assume that they use those symbols because they where used by anti-russian movements of the past, rather than because they believe in race superriority and need for killing jews in camps.

    It isn’t at all safe to assume. These are Nazis literally calling themselves as such.

    Second, how tf would anyone define a russian from ukrainian? Those are not ethnicities in the first place. Cultural differences are practically non-existent. Even language. I already told about all of that.

    Russia and Ukraine have distinct ethnicities, culture, and language, and have their own historied regions. Similarities do not mean they outright are the same, this is the line far-right Russians use to claim Ukraine itself is illegitimate.

    How the fuck are the eastern conflicts prior to 2022 are “ethinic cleansing”, but all-out war with the objective to seize Eastern Ukraine, resulting in tens of thousands ukrainians dead is not “ethnic cleansing” to you?

    War isn’t ethnic cleansing, while Kiev actively targeted ethnic Russians.

    Also, good on you for defending the “good and fluffy nationalism” so that the “evil imerialism” won’t come. Look out of the window and see for yourself how well this twist of logic works. Every modern country is national, and it doest prevent corporate imperialism in any way. Every country is national, yet we still got NATO. And nato would’ve bossibly been a good thing, if only it wasn’t just a US plaything. US regime is quite nationalist btw. Doesn’t prevent their imperialistic advances in any way.

    This is an extreme misreading of what I said. I despise the nationalism of imperialist states like the US, but support the nationalism of countries like Burkina Faso that have nationalist revolutions against their own colonization. Nationalism doesn’t prevent an imperialist country from being imperialist, it can be a tool used by oppressed peoples in liberating themselves. I’m no PatSoc or MAGA Communist.

    Thanks for sharing the “good read”, but unless i see any reasoning that you extracted from it, i won’t consider it good. And it just so happens that your reasoning is not the best so far.

    Good thing you entirely misread my reasoning. The Wretched of the Earth is a banger.

    Happy New Year!


  • Yep, anyone can make shit up, like you just did. 4 million Nazis were killed on the Eastern Front in battle, a number far exceeding even the most outlandish figures liberals came up with for purges, even if we assume 100% of those purged were innocent, which is of course wrong (the vast majority were proven guilty).

    Now, in reality, life expectancy doubled while Stalin was in office, and the vast majority of those executed in purges (which wasn’t what happened to most that were purged, usually just party expulsions) were found to be guilty of crimes like murder, terrorism, espionage, sexual assault, and more. We also know that there was good reason for the purges, because the USSR was under constant siege, threat of war, infiltration, sabotage, and more for its entire existence, especially prior to World War II.

    You don’t have a critique to make, you’re just repeating Red Scare mythology. Truth for you is less important than wielding the Red Scare like a club against those you disagree with, even if it’s trivial to disprove your claims.


















  • The fact that I disagree with you doesn’t mean I’m preventing you from speaking. I just disagree with you, plain and simple. Critique isn’t valuable because it’s different, but because it adds depth to understanding or corrects issues, neither of which I see really being done by your claims here.

    The plain and simple fact is that China is steadily progressing as a socialist country, gradually focusing on building up the productive forces while maintaining socialism as the mode of production. As time goes on, maintaining socialism means the economic characteristics of market forces will continue to force the socialization of production.

    You can not prove that the party has a proletarian character while it exploits labor, suppresses opposing political views, nurtures capitalist relations, nurtures petty bourgeois middle class delusions and presents itself as a state bureaucracy. This is the bourgeois character of the party, it is tangible and well documented.

    The party itself is overwhelmingly proletarian:

    Further, the political views suppressed are fascist and counter-revolutionary views. The fact that private capital exists does not mean the party is “nurturing capitalist relations.” China has contradictions, indeed, but the party itself is not bourgeois, and this certainly isn’t because they have a political party and state administration.

    Rather than quoting my words and then talking right past me, it would be more productive imo if you actually like tried to digest what people say even a little. Thank god I get to have actually productive organizing discussions to keep me grounded.

    I do, just because I’m not convinced by what you have to say doesn’t mean I’m talking past you. What you bring up often is either not true or is based on, say, Bordigist left-deviationist critique which is a whole other can of worms to get into. I do organize in real life, and that does keep me grounded as well, hopefully we can both continue our journeys to learn more and unite theory with practice.