If you 'denounce' the historical real socialism that existed and exists, you can't be a communist.
>but those were not real communismReal communism is the
movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical
act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the
status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.
Any questions?
341 posts and 51 image replies omitted.>>2286076There is no such thing as an "Anarcho-nihilist project"
Projects are pointless struggles in aimlessness.
>>2394660Putting aside the fact "project" is such a broad term it can mean most anything.
Taking that idea instead as true, what is your response to this situation as you find it? You have chosen to make this very aimlessness up to utter pointlessness the very centerpiece of your ideology, such as it is.
>>2284340>Soviet anti-colonial socialist projectThey annexed the Baltic states illegally and moved Russian settlers into those areas
>bbbut the Baltics voluntarily joined the USSRNo serious historian actually believes this, and the historians that do are usually less than honest historians from Russia, a country that has an incentive to avoid accepting the fact that they colonised the Baltics, since the Baltics want economic compensation for what happened to them. You can say they did the same thing in Ukraine as well, where ethnically Hungarian, Romanian and Russian lands were integrated into the Ukrainian SSR instead of being handed to the (socialist, I should add) Hungarian and Romanian republics.
China also does stuff like this today
Trying to defend this stuff because le liberals hate it is essentially just a communist version of “vote blue no matter who”, since you’re defending stuff you otherwise wouldnt defend solely because the people doing it are on your side, and it’s better them doing it than other people.
>>2395380And I should also add that the Baltics are a very good example of a people that bring out very chauvinistic attitudes from MLs, since in a lot of ML spaces, bringing them up immediately leads to
>but they’re le Nazis(They aren’t, collaborating with the Nazis did happen, but it wasn’t ideological most of the time and many of those same collaborators turned on the Germans very quick)
>but they’re le butthurt beltGiven what we’ve discussed about being colonised, I wonder why they’re butthurt. The phrase “butthurt belt” is chauvinistic in itself, it’s no different from Britain calling the commonwealth countries their butthurt belt.
>but they complain!And so do other peoples who were colonised. They have a right to.
>>2395386>They aren’t, collaborating with the Nazis did happen, but it wasn’t ideological every butthurt belter should be shot end of story
russian colonialism against the butthurt belt never happened but it should have
>>2395385The existence of far-right paramilitaries doesnt mean that they weren’t occupied, since they didn’t actually control the governments in any of those countries (except for Latvia) and because the Soviets didnt actually enter those countries under the pretext of getting rid of those paramilitaries. In Lithuania for example, the Soviets asked the government if they could station their troops in Lithuania, in exchange for the Vilnius region from Poland. When the Lithuanian government accepted, they then couped the government.
And this also ignores that for decades during the Soviet occupation, negative attitudes against the Soviet government from the local Baltic population remained.
In any other context, these “mutual assistance” treaties would be seen as colonialism, since they were inherently coercive, but since it was the Soviets doing them, it’s perfectly fine. As I already stated, the narrative that those occupations were legal comes from Russian historians who try to justify them so that Russia does not have to pay reparations to the Baltics.
>>2395380You are right in one regard. The tiny, pathetic german-backed capitalists of the three republics truly didn't want it, and because the state was theirs, these states didn't want to join the Soviet Union.
But to the proletarian and peasant from a stagnant interwar economy joining the state that just performed a qualitative leap from a peasant shithole to one of the foremost industrial powers is a no-brainer. To deny this kind of sentiment when so many around the world have a similar sentiment towards People's Republic of China is not just silly, but an entirely unconvincing lie. You can't gaslight us on this topic.
>>2395388Like clockwork
>red country invaded grey country>grey country doesnt like red country for historical reasons>brown country invades grey country, now part of red country>grey country sides with brown country because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and they might liberate them>brown country does not do that>grey country turns against both brown and red countryThis is what happened in the Baltics according to any historian worth their salt, anything else is just Russian chauvinism disguised as Socialism.
>>2395390>But to the proletarian and peasant from a stagnant interwar economy joining the state that just performed a qualitative leap from a peasant shithole to one of the foremost industrial powers is a no-brainer.Except the interwar Baltics were richer and more developed generally speaking than the USSR. All evidence generally points to that. Even under the Soviets, the Baltics were net contributors to the Soviet GDP.
There’s no gaslighting going on here since all the evidence points to that
>>2395394Higher GDP isn't the relevant factor. The relevant factor is the ability to solve problems and move forward as a society. Modern China still has rather average GDP per capita, yet there is no shortage of people who recognize their achievements and want to adopt their ways all over the world. As you yourself said, the Soviet government had no interest in negatively affecting Baltic republics' development.
In any case, I don't want people to entertain your delusions any longer than necessary. One of the most basic ideas in materialism is that theory should be supported by practice. The practice of "independent" Baltic states is severe industrial degradation, quick demographic decline and deliberate sacrifice of public safety for benefit of western capital, as well as support for all the most reactionary causes like Zionism, Islamist Syria, and so on.
>>2288175>>2288539For anyone claiming “Marxism-Leninism” (made up bullshit ideology at this point) isn’t Third Worldism, that’s a load of fuckin nonsense lmao
Sorry but MLoidism stopped being a remotely coherent falsification of the world (ie: ideology) since the main funnel for radicalizing you suburban white kids became podcasters, influencers, forums, and the internet at large. MLs ceased having coherent political beliefs a long time ago. MLS happily collapse all their Marxist critics into a single strawman in their mind, and similarly collapse all the leaders they idolize, who tend to be anyone to have headed a one party soviet aligned state at any point, as well, even if said leaders had extremely fractious feuds between each other. There is no point distinguishing an “ML” from a “third worldist” when both are labels that signify not much of anything. Both sides have an absurd performative hatred for “westoids”. Both functionally adhere to three worlds theory and a national-centric understanding of world politics. Both openly define socialism as when your government is ruled by a communist party. Both worship the same figureheads by now. Functionally there is no difference because MLs themselves do not have coherent beliefs and will promote Marx in one breath and the Prophet Muhammad in the next.
>>2395371> The USSR went from a feudal medieval shithole to sending people to space in about 40 years and making almost all population literate.Amazing, Japan AES as well, went from feudal shithole to world power that could compete with the Western Imperialists and form the anti-imperialist East Asian Co-Prosperity sphere in the same time frame the USSR managed to, it took an alliance of all of the Asian and European compradors and America together to stop Japanese and German AES!
> They successfully established a dictatorship of the proletariat. The USSR instilled absolute TERROR among the Western oligarchs and fearing a world revolution they created the welfare state.Based, stabilizing western capitalist society is one of the greatest achievements of AES, alongside declaring socialism to be when you say you are socialist!
Never forget to credit AES Germany as well, for creating the conditions for the anti-fascist popular front and bankrupting the world spanning British and French colonial empires!
Remember, socialism is when wage labor, (small scale of course!) private property, 12 hour work shifts, industry, nukes, and welfare, genius! That nigha Bernstein really had it all figured out! Socialism is when:
Social ~<democracy~~!
Mass murder!One Party rule!
> In 1991 shortly before it was dissolved (which was actually an illegal coup d'état) almost 80% of Soviets wanted it to remain.Crazy that the mass bulk of proletarians, literally the vast majority, couldn’t affect that decision in a socialist society wherein they held the power! Must have been
some Jew’s fault one of the Terrible Men of History (enemies to the Great Men!)
> Only Marxism-Leninism has worked, what have the anarkiddies achieved?Worked so well that the vast majority of ML regimes openly destroyed themselves against the (alleged) will of the masses who (allegedly) held the power over the state specifically so said national republics could benefit from the free flow of commodities and capital from the Western bloc, including Moscow itself?
>>2396049>For anyone claiming “Marxism-Leninism” (made up bullshit ideology at this point) isn’t Third Worldism, that’s a load of fuckin nonsense lmaoYou are so fucking retarded dude, are you not embarrassed writing this slop?
>Muh MLism is about "white" people just watching podcasts/YouTubers Boooooring, get new material please I beg you. Please for the love of god stop basing your political views on which YouTubers people watch or which subreddits they browse. Can you possibly engage with actual arguments instead of this baseless projection and psychoanalysis?
>Why don't you hate socialist states/demonize its leaders?? You're not a real socialist like me because you don't despise anything and everything to do with the ussr and Marxism Leninism. God it's so boring and predictable your retardation. Honestly, please kill yourself dude, you'd be doing us all a favor
The term you're looking for btw is "campist" , not third worldist lmao
>>2396086>Aes is when Japan starts a colonial empire based on European capitalism. The development USSR and imperial japan are literally the same thing Historical development understander has logged in I see
>Socialism is when states can't have nukes Lmao
>The USSR fell, therefore it's completely worthless and should be demonized even more than it already was when it was around. Me not understanding the forces that led to it's fall must mean everyone else believes in great man theory Don't you ever get tired of hating on socialist states?
>Worked so well that the vast majority of ML regimes openly destroyed themselves against the (alleged) will of the masses who (allegedly) held the power over the state specifically so said national republics could benefit from the free flow of commodities and capital from the Western bloc, including Moscow itself?Despite that, it's still more and higher achievements than anything you could possibly present. Probably why you sound so resentful of them, because they actually achieved something and you actually achieve less than nothing
>>2396049You're confusing terminally online Dengists with MLs
The terminally online Dengists have no coherent ideology
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