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Was she the greatest force of good in the world?
Wyatt Barnes
Hudson Hernandez
The cockshott thread is awaiting gentlemen.
William Parker
undialectical and objectively wrong. get your head out of your own ass and read something that isn't a MTW blogpost. i recommend "Is The Red Flag Flying?" by Al Szymanski. here's a quote for you:
Jackson Murphy
bullshit. the bureaucracy did not "suppress" the working class, nor did they suppress revolutionary movements. once again, this is objectively wrong and makes no fucking sense considering the USSR actively supported revolutions in the third world, as well as giving aid to existing socialist states and parties all across the globe. not once did they ever promote "social democracy" and i fucking encourage you to show me one example of this. not even Gorbachev promoted social democracy until well after the USSR had fallen. as for "alliances with capitalists" this makes no sense because not only was the capitalist world undermining and subverting the USSR from its conception, they were vehemently anti-communist and anti-Soviet. if you are referring to diplomacy and trade deals, those existed once again as far back as 1917 when Lenin and Stalin encouraged healthy competition and friendly relations between the socialist and capitalist camps, and had asked for American workers and engineers to help build infrastructure and train the Soviet workforce in the 20s and 30s. not once did they ever have an "alliance" with the capitalists, and the closest they got was during WWII after they had been encouraging Hitler to push east and practically waited to the very last moment to support the USSR and open up a second front. most of the lend-lease didn't even arrive until after 1942.
you have to be either completely delusional or a liar to peddle such a falsified narrative, because beyond what I've already stated, why was there even a fucking cold war if the Soviets were supposedly "social democrats" who allied with the capitalists and suppressed revolution? how do you explain supporting Vietnam, Angola, Afghanistan? or what of the fact that the mode of production was still socialist even during the 80s, or that the CPSU never denounced socialism until Gorbachev declared it "Stalinism"? your blatant twisting of history cannot be rectified with some baseless "social imperialism" narrative, nor your disregard for proper Marxist analysis.
while this trot may have conflicting ideas as to what the USSR did wrong and right, his approach is generally 10x better than the dogmatism peddled by some of the people on the left. the USSR wasn't perfect, and as such we need to recognise its flaws as to not repeat it in the future, while still understanding the nature of said flaws and why it failed.
Dominic Campbell
Trotsky was a genius