Thank you for everything, Joseph <3
I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.
>>2350777In [Bordiga’s] long article one thing is truly noteworthy: the elegant skepticism with which he avoids taking a clear position on points which he nevertheless affirms to dissent from; there is the continual oscillation between thesis and antithesis, without for all that indicating an “original” thesis of his own.
Comrade Bordiga limits himself to upholding a cautious position on all the questions raised by the Left. He doesn’t say: the International poses and resolves such and such a question in this way, but the Left will instead pose and resolve it this other way. He instead says: the way the International poses and resolves problems doesn’t convince me; I fear it falls into opportunism, there are insufficient guarantees against this, etc. His position, then, is one of permanent suspicion and doubt. In this way the position of the “Left” is purely negative; they express reservations without specifying them in a concrete form, and above all without indicating in concrete form their point of view, their solutions. They end by spreading doubt and distrust, without constructing anything.
>>2351336the actual greek communists never blame stalin for their defeat
but the westoids always know better
>>2351776…
Anon, do you know about the bolivian revolution of the 50's
>>2351285Didn't he go into the trail and act like a smart ass and sarcastically agree to every charge thinking it was just a prank?
I don't agree with Stalin's purges for a very real reason is that Stalin probably knocked out good faith people who were just critical, while the Liberal traitor rats knew how to play the game and thus you got MI6 Beria and Shitlib Khuruschev into positions of power to ruin the USSR, but from my understanding is that Bukharin pretty much put the rope around his own neck and was like "YEAH BITCH BET YOU WON'T DO IT HAHA GOOD BANTS".
>>2351243https://redsails.org/critica-sterile-negativa/lol nice epic
Somehow Gramsci agrees with me so much to the point we even use the same phrases independently
>The position of this “Left” is purely negativeThat's really the red thread or unifying (even defining) feature of all "leftcom".
>>2350713You really couldn't make up the behaviour of modern MLs and their hero worship.
State capitalism & social democracy from the barrel of a gun has NEVER worked.
SIOC is a falsification and modernisation of Marx. Stalin was a revisionist.
I will give him that he beat the Nazis at least, that was pretty based.
>>2352830How he could let anything happen if he was a so and so from the Italian communist party.
not even aided the partisans, just one of the victims of ᴉuᴉlossnW's encroachment.
>>2352839On the morning of 6 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917 Kerensky's troops raided Stalin's press headquarters and smashed his printing presses. While he worked to restore his presses, Stalin missed a Central Committee meeting where assignments for the coup were being issued. Stalin instead spent the afternoon briefing Bolshevik delegates and passing communications to and from Lenin, who was in hiding.[13]
Early the next day, Stalin went to the Smolny Institute from where he, Lenin and the rest of the Central Committee coordinated the coup. Kerensky left the capital to rally the Imperial troops at the German front. By 8 November [O.S. 27 October] 1917, the Bolsheviks had "stormed" the Winter Palace and arrested most of the members of Kerensky's cabinet.
>>2353112Not even we in Greece hold that narrative, at least amongst the communists.
We made military-strategic blunders, and should have gone with guerrilla warfare, but anyhow ..
>>2351285even if one would side with them theoretically, and even disagree with the principle of democratic centralism, how could it possibly be justifiable to try to destabilize the USSR just on the eve of a genocidal war of extermination?
were they delusional, evil or retarded?
I assume they were committed to the broader cause of liberation, and even had some patriotic inclinations, so how did they justify sabotaging the country right before a total war, all over a party politics power game?
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