So who were the hundreds of thousands of workers who died defending the Republic? Ghosts, aliens, or what?
Hardcore anti-Soviet leftists
Leo Gutierrez
Nolan Watson
Ultimately, canon fodder. I know that's hard to hear, but the Spanish civil war was a monumental failure for the Communist movement. This was both due to insurmountable foreign opposition from imperialist and fascist nations, and also internal contradictions in the movement it'self. We need to except this and move on, invoking their name in a romantic sense only betrays their sacrifice.
Dylan James
A Spartakist wrote some months before his execution that in all his readings of natural history he couldn't find a more disgusting subspecies than a Social Democrat.
It's in Haffner's book about the 1918/19 and I don't even know if it's translated but anyway, the SPD has done more against Communism than the NSDAP.
Hudson Foster
>>>/gnussr/
Ethan Parker
Thats downright retarted, being realistic is demanding small changes. Because those changes actually have a chance of being made so it sparks debate. Big changes are always ignored, they dont spark anything and dont achieve anything. Sure a revolution will be nice but if you wanna play the politics game in this day and age the left should be demanding small modest changes
Jackson Gray
The USSR, whatever it was, is entirely irrelevant today, it should largely be purged from the political horizon of the contemporary left considering that the worker's movement is dead and that the USSR implodedm. The notion of "imperialism" as used here is likewise anachronistic and is the socialism of idiots.
This is precisely unrealistic insofar as "small modest changes" and parliamentary politics have nothing to do with communism today, even if we accept the highly dubious position that they once did. They are "realistic" insofar as realism confines us to the present as it's horizon
Jayden Fisher
It depends on the kind of anti-soviet you're talking about, but 90% of the time with anti-soviet marxists its just down to bad theory or social chauvinism.
Jeremiah Richardson
Ok dear w*Sternoids, we, uncivilized slavic scum, fucked up. Soviet system was in fact state capitalism, USSR was even more imerialister than imperialists themselves, Stalin was a tyrant and so on and so on. Show us how it's done.
Gabriel Taylor
Yes
Do they prefer a world where there’s absolutely no one reasonably resisting global western imperialism? All for some utopian garbage?
Yes, but at least there is no "muh class collaboration"
Christopher Campbell
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