mila kunis posted:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sigmarxism/

THS posted:

good idea can we turn this into the warhammer 40k lore discussion thread

quote:

What we mean when we say socialism is, simply put, a society where workers collectively own and democratically control their labor and the value they produce. In other words, a classless society, free of exploitation and oppression. Its essence is evoked in two common phrases of Marx, who described socialism as a world “from each according to their ability and to each according to their need,” which comes into realization through the “self-emancipation” of the working class.

This is different from conceptions of socialism like the social democracy of the Scandinavian mixed economies, and different from the former USSR and North Korea—often referred to as Stalinist countries—or the current Chinese state, which can be generally described as a capitalist dictatorship with certain sectors of the economy owned by the state, whose role is to integrate the private sector into the world economy. All of these forms can be described as “socialism from above”: state control of some part of industry through a top-down, bureaucratic, and more often than not authoritarian stratum of society.

Even though the USSR is now a thing of the past, the political tendency of Stalinism still exists and is referred to in chapters of this book. Although definitions vary, we will briefly describe it as a political tendency based on the false notion that socialism can be established in a single country rather than through the international rejection of capitalism. Stalinism often takes a rigid approach to socialist revolution, regarding it as marked by distinct “stages”—first, socialists fight for national or anticolonial liberation, then at some later date they start the struggle for socialism. This mechanistic model relegates the project of fighting for socialism to something that will take place at a future—often undefined—point in time.

ToxicAcne posted:

Non-western Trots seem to be much better about the anti-imperialism like Tariq Ali or CLR James.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Speaking of India the CPI (Maoist)'s course on MLM is great.

http://massalijn.nl/theory/marxism-leninism-maoism-basic-course/

gradenko_2000 posted:

ToxicAcne posted:

Non-western Trots seem to be much better about the anti-imperialism like Tariq Ali or CLR James.

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

decided to download it and lmao right out of the gate-

gradenko_2000 posted:

Non-western leftists are just hotter and more good-looking people in general

Atrocious Joe posted:

the weirdest thing about ISO dissolving for "accountability" is that the largest and most influential part, the publishing arm, continued with the same politics.


does "Western" just mean white . I'm fine with that tbh. CLR James lived in Britain and travelled around the US for much of his life.

ToxicAcne posted:

Non-western Trots seem to be much better about the anti-imperialism like Tariq Ali or CLR James.

THS posted:

good idea can we turn this into the warhammer 40k lore discussion thread

Flavius Aetass posted:

I keep telling the T'au that their caste system is counter-revolutionary but they keep calling me a revisionist and posting that "shut up bitch" video

Larry Parrish posted:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Larry Parrish posted:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Larry Parrish posted:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Larry Parrish posted:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Larry Parrish posted:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Larry Parrish posted:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Larry Parrish posted:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Yossarian-22 posted:

mk stalin

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i still love that 90% of lawler's commentary was just him squealing

THS posted:

good idea can we turn this into the warhammer 40k lore discussion thread

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/Huck1995/status/1392424543759835141

indigi posted:

how do we crowdfund this book

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

finally am getting around to losurdo's stalin book thanks to this thread and man, he really hates trotsky lmao. perhaps even more than khrushchev

Ferrinus posted:

you mean history of a black legend? i actually don't remember it dwelling on trotsky that much, and mostly to illustrate hypocrisy or differences of degree rather than kind (like trotsky still objecting to the deliberate abolition of the family despite doing the messianic, universality thing on other issues)

Ferrinus posted:

you mean history of a black legend? i actually don't remember it dwelling on trotsky that much, and mostly to illustrate hypocrisy or differences of degree rather than kind (like trotsky still objecting to the deliberate abolition of the family despite doing the messianic, universality thing on other issues)