Communists would do better if they realised that Gorbachev wasn't a traitor. He was a comically committed Leninist and he got most of his worst ideas (like basically every move to empower the different nations of the USSR, which would ultimately lead to them all leaving, or his economic policies, which were inspired by the NEP) from reading Lenin. He destroyed the USSR not because he saw the light of neoliberalism and converted, but because he believed he could recover its "true" origins before it became corrupted and stagnant.
This doesn't tell us anything about Lenin, who had been dead for decades, but it does tell you where LARPing as Lenin and treating Lenin like the biblical truth will take you. You have to understand the situation as it actually exists in the here and now, not by shoehorning it in to the texts of long dead heroes. Your analyses should start from reality and work towards useful predictions, rather than starting from dogma and working towards reconciling it with reality.
Gorbachev's failure is substantially worse in light of his loyalty to the cause.
I agree but this should be on the main board.
>>2845206>He was a comically committed Leninist retard
>>2845206>Communists would do better if they realized that Gorbachev wasn't a traitor. He was a comically committed Leninist This is a terrible reading, there's a mountain of evidence, that Gorby was driven by vanity and narcissism. Gorby revealed state secrets to Thatcher, when he visited the UK in 1984. He is a traitor.
There's also Yakovlev's notes.
https://media.alexanderyakovlev.org/fond/issues-doc/1023389
>The political conclusions of Marxism are unacceptable for the emerging civilization, which is looking for a path to reconciliation, mitigation of the initial conflicts and contradictions of existence. – YakovlevIf gorby was truly a Leninist, Gorby should have arrested Yakovlev, for saying some of the most un-Leninist sentences ever written.
>>2845338How could an idiot reach this level of importance in such a huge, complex party? I know it was terminally decadent and increasingly filled with retarded nationalists since Breznhev became lobotomized but still that's not the political ascention an idiot can make.
>>2845472because the party form is garbage
>>2845477And what’s the superior alternative?
>>2845206Dissolved the party. Also Yakoklev. Not even Deng dissolved the CPC. It just doesn't apply here.
>>2845486He should have dissolved the CPSU and merged it into the CPC, turning the Soviet Union into a Chinese province, this would have solved every issue.
>>2845477What is your alternative?
>>2845483finding that out is the supreme task of communists today, but they're mostly interested in LARPing the CPSU
>>2845472he was the face of the conspiracy behind him
>>2845582>>2845564the party form continues to reign supreme…
>>2845490>gorbachev should have solved the sino soviet splityes he should have done a lot of things but he was not on the side you think he was.
>>2845483cooperatives, unions, and mutual aid groups must united under a militant organ. not a party, which is primarily bureaucratic and only secondarily militant, but an army, which is primarily militant and only secondarily bureaucratic
>>2845593supremely wrecked by liberals, I agree
>>2845593>elect a lib>he can now do whatever he wants in the name of democratic centralismsounds like the easiest shit to infiltrate and wreck