my bony fealty posted:

riding backseat to Che on the bike, passing the blunt back and forth as we breeze through the cool Argentine morning air

gradenko_2000 posted:

can't stop the Giap!

gradenko_2000 posted:

can't stop the Giap!

quote:

The Vietnamese people's war of liberation ended in victory because of the existence of
people's power established during the August Revolution and thereafter constantly
consolidated. This power was the Government of alliance between classes, the
government of the revolutionary classes and above all of the workers and peasants. It was
the dictatorship of people's democracy, the dictatorship of the workers and peasants in
fact, under the leadership of the Party. It devoted its efforts to mobilising and organising
the whole people for the Resistance; it brought the people material advantages not only in
the free zones, but also in the guerrilla bases behind the enemy's back.

The Vietnamese people's war of liberation attained this great victory for the reasons we
have just enumerated, but above all because it was organised and led by the Party of the
working class : the Indochinese Communist Party, now the Viet Nam Workers' Party. In
the light of the principles of Marxism-Leninism, it was this Party which proceeded to
make an analysis of the social situation and of the balance of forces between the enemy
and ourselves in order to determine the fundamental tasks of the people's national
democratic revolution, to establish the plan for the armed struggle and decide on the
guiding principle: long-term resistance and self-reliance. It was the Party which found a
correct solution to the problems arising out of the setting up and leadership of a people's
army, people's power and a national united front. It also inspired in the people and the
army a completely revolutionary spirit which instilled into the whole people the will to
overcome all difficulties, to endure all privations, the spirit of a long resistance, of
resistance to the end. Our Party, under the leadership of President Ho Chi Minh, is the
worthy Party of the working class and the nation. President Ho Chi Minh, leader of the
Party and the nation, is the symbol of this gigantic uprising of the Vietnamese people.
If the Vietnamese people's war of liberation ended in a glorious victory, it is because we
did not fight alone, but with the support of progressive peoples the world over, and more
especially the peoples of the brother countries, with the Soviet Union at the head. The
victory of the Vietnamese people cannot be divided from this support; it cannot be
disassociated from the brilliant successes of the socialist countries and the movement of
national liberation, neither can it be detached from the victories of the Soviet Red Army
during the Second World War, nor from those of the Chinese people during the last few
years. It cannot be isolated from the sympathy and support of progressive peoples
throughout the world, among whom are the French people under the leadership of their
Communist Party, and the peoples of Asia and Africa.

The victory of the Vietnamese people is that of a small and weak nation and possessing
no regular army, which rose up to engage in an armed struggle against the aggression of
an imperialist country with a modern army and benefiting from the support of the
American imperialists. This colonial country has established and maintained a regime of
people's democracy, which will open up to it the path to socialism. That is one of the
great historic events in the national liberation movement and in the proletarian
revolutionary movement, in the new international position born of the Second World
War, in the period of transition from capital-ism to socialism, in the time of the
disintegration of imperialism. The Vietnamese people's war of liberation has contributed
to making obvious this new historic truth: in the present international situation, a weak
people which rises up resolutely to fight for its freedom is sure to triumph over all
enemies and to achieve victory.

Crusader posted:

quote:

In a 1998 interview, William Westmoreland criticized the battlefield prowess of Giáp. He further stated that "by his own admission, by early 1969, I think, he had lost, what, a half million soldiers? He reported this. Now such a disregard for human life may make a formidable adversary, but it does not make a military genius. An American commander losing men like that would hardly have lasted more than a few weeks."[68]

dead gay comedy forums posted:

also this reminded me of this

completely and totally owned, "bubububh charlie didn't fight fair!!!"

Crusader posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

People like Che, Castro, and Sankara would all be dope to smoke weed with.

fart simpson posted:

i love cummunism

Lady Militant posted:

theres things to talk about other than ww2!!!

exmarx posted:

watching the parenti/hitchens debate... hitchens opens with a harry potter reference

fart simpson posted:

wait until you get to the part where hitchens says actually they did find WMDs but it’s too politically incorrect to say it so the bush administration is pretending they lied about it to not offend the liberals or something

Larry Parrish posted:

He's literally one of the greatest socialist heroes to ever live though.

Lady Militant posted:

yah but the wait list to hang out with him is really long.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I got a little misty-eyed at the later passages. That kind of commitment to the socialist project...

MLSM posted:

“This is the reasoning of a liberal scholar who repeats the incredibly trite and threadbare argument that experience and reason clearly prove that men arenot equal, yet socialism bases its ideal on equality. Hence, socialism, if you please, is an absurdity which is contrary to experience and reason, and so forth!

Mr. Tugan repeats the old trick of the reactionaries: first to misinterpret socialism by making it out to be an absurdity, and then to triumphantly refute the absurdity! When we say that experience and reason prove that men are not equal, we mean by equality, equality in abilities or similarity in physical strength and mental ability.

It goes without saying that in this respect men are not equal. No sensible person and no socialist forgets this. But this kind of equality has nothing whatever to do with socialism. If Mr. Tugan is quite unable to think, he is at least able to read; were lie to Lake the well-known work of one of the founders of scientific socialism, Frederick Engels, directed against D’uhring, he would find there a special section explaining the absurdity of imagining that economic equality means anything else than the abolition of classes. But when professors set out to refute socialism, one never knows what to wonder at most—their stupidity, their ignorance, or their unscrupulousness.” — V.I. Lenin

mycomancy posted:

Get their rear end Vlad

yr new gurlfrand! posted:

Lady Militant posted:

my new gimmick is loving and kissing all the lovely ugly soviet leaders everyone hates.

yr new gurlfrand! posted:

Lady Militant posted:

ok this is getting too horny

Mr. Lobe posted:

Weeds highly illegal in Cuba