There is also a reason why the KSČM is still pretty damn popular for a CP in a western liberal democracy.
Dubcek'ists / Eurocoms
Bentley Perez
Nathan Green
Also, has anyone seen pic related movie? Is it good?
Juan Bennett
Except the people protesting in the Prague Spring didn't question the market reforms, but rather wanted them to go even further and reinstate literal fucking capitalism in Czechoslovakia. Take your free speech fetishism to liberalpol.
Samuel Allen
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Juan Nelson
Dubcek was Slobodan Milosevic before Slobodan Milosevic. He wanted to pass privatization in just the same way. Yet we don't see here Slobodan Milosevic being martyred or being called a liberator, by everyone he is literally hailed as a traitor to socialism. Their economic policies were literally the same.
Carter Mitchell
Andrew Cox
How many layers of trotskyism are you on?
Robert Walker
look mom I can do it too
the actions undertaken by the USSR are irrelevant to my point, the liberalization Dubcek carried out happened, this is irrefutable. Czechslovakia was the most democratic eastern bloc state up to the soviet intervention, and the intervention itself was carried out only due to the privatization being accomplished, Dubceks entire policy was born of opportunism. They wanted trade with the west and threw socialism under the bus for that. Romania basically left the soviet sphere after prague spring, yet there was no intervention because they didn't do a full reversion into capitalism (despite Romania being shitty as it was due to other reasons)
The USSR ought to be criticized because opportunists like Dubcek only ever got into power because of Hruschevs destalinization of the eastern bloc. There would've likely been no prague spring and no hungarian revolt if Hruschev didn't do what he did.
Aiden Richardson
4/10 attempt. You are on right part comrade, but this meme is perfect when you don't add insults other person did not use, I never called you "fascist" or that you "love hitler". What I would call you is probably "conservative reactionary", "shitty leftist" or "smuggy red-liberal western kid". You can try again, we have enough time.
It's funny that you call Dubček "opportunist". If you'd also mention that "all three classes - farmer class, labourer class and working intelligence" were "betrayed" by Dubček, you'd sound just like opportunists which shittalked Dubček after Soviet intervention.
I agree that Dubček's economic policy sound a little dengish, abolishing institutions which dictate production if favour of "mere" overseeing MOP by party can be seen as regressive step. I, person which loves comrade Cockshott's books, would too be very sceptical about it. You are however forgetting that Marxists are not against markets because of some kind of reactionary hatred towards people which praise them, or because of some mystical shit which happens when you abolish them. Markets are "bad" because they prevent proletarians from getting all they produce - yet this Dubček's move allowed him raising wages by more than 10%, while prices of products remained the same. Don't forget that actual production provides, not markets or planners, and when country (such as ČSSR at that time) don't have enough computing power to make it efficient, it's not in interest of people to stick to processes just because high USSR clergy party members decide that this is path to the true full communism. There is also nothing wrong with trade with the rest of the world. Having access to resources of rest of the world is always benefit to the people.
Dubček's famous "slogan" was that "party should not rule the people, but serve them". Transformation of police state (state where policemen can do anything except for things forbidden to them by law and citizens can not do anything except for things allowed for them by law) to more libertarian state for which I can not find proper english term where enforcers of state power have strictly defined privileges, and people can do anything except for forbidden stuff, was very popular thing which greatly improved people's lives. When it comes to politics, loosening laws to create new parties had a bad impact - socdem party started to form. On other hand, people were free to create any party with big enough popular support and whenever it would have been stalinist, maoist, cybernetic or anarchist party - if it would have gotten big enough popular support communist party would must listen to it's demands.
tl;dr: Dubček was popular because he wanted to improve people lives, stop police harassment and was massive non-sectarian leftist.
Michael James
Good fucking post user.