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Bloody History of US Empireby ~TheCommissar

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Yo, dudes. Another poster I've made for my group. I really should do some art-work for myself sometime. But you know, an activists' life is never dull. This one is pretty self explanatory.

Meanwhile, to anyone who takes the time to read this... somethign is bothering me. That is, how easily Stalinism is confused for genuine Socialism/Marxism.

Next to a picture of Marx, you can see another picture of Che or some hammer and sickle. It's disgusting! The USSR represented the absolute negation of socialism; it was a militarist, totalitarian regime. It was fundamentally a capitalist society, without private ownership. State ownership served this role. If the state is controlled by a bureaucratic minority, who are driven to compeditive accumulation of capital by international compertition, then this is capitalism! The working classes were smashed, and then exploited as wage labour. Similar states are the same phenomenon, varying only in the degree of totalitarianism.

True socialism is about liberation and workers' revolution. The charter of the first international included, on Marx's personal insistance: "The liberation of the working class can only be conquered by the working class itself".
Something is deeply wrong when socialism is brought about by an (unelected) minority of romantic geurilla fighters, or soviet tanks.

EDIT (June 2010)

I just looked over the page for this deviation, and I noticed that it attracts comments from supporters and detractors equally.

That means two things.

Firstly, I have a policy of replying to people, so if you post something that I agree with or disagree with, I'll reply.

Secondly, I will only hide messages or exchanges that degenerate into insults or stupidity. I won't hide intelligently made comments by people even if I disagree with them.

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~LeRevolutionnaire Feb 10, 2013

love it, and I agree with your interpretation of Soviet "communism". good work!

~Overlord299 Aug 7, 2012

A fair point about the USSR not representing true Socialism/Marxism, though I am reminded of the logical fallacy "No true Scotsman"

~bttlrp Jan 20, 2013

If the NTS fallacy accounted for the discrepancy between Marxist theory and Stalinism, I'd agree with you.

~Overlord299 Jan 31, 2013

That is the problem though, isn't it? Marxist theory. An incomplete theory that can be morphed into whatever one desires to suit your own ends. Hoxha did it, Pol Pot did it, Mao did it. I think it might actually be easier to list communist dictators who didn't come up with their own TRUE and HONEST version (because they were the only ones who knew what Marx was talking about, clearly) of Marxist theory.

~bttlrp Jan 31, 2013

Sorry, but I don't buy that. Stalin and Mao's "contributions" to Marxist theory are respectively the "Aggravation of the class struggle under socialism" and "Contradictions" which both meant nothing more than an excuse for repression of people the dictators didn't like.

At the end of the day followers of X dictator will twist Marxist theory to be whatever they like but I know that me and my friends and fellow comrades have our understanding of it, and it is far simpler than the elaborate Soviet nonsense that was added in later. Reading Raya Dunayevskaya has helped to clear up any dogmatic conceptions I once had.

~Overlord299 Feb 5, 2013

Don't buy what? That people can twist Marxism into whatever they want?

~bttlrp Feb 6, 2013

Yep,because it's not exactly Marxism.

~Overlord299 Feb 26, 2013

But history proves you can, Pol pot did it to justify his atrocities, so did Stalin, Mao and even Leon Trotsky.

~bttlrp Feb 26, 2013

But the fact remains that it doesn't chime with the logic of Marx's system. Digging up quotes out of context is not good enough

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!maxieyellowbobpants Aug 19, 2011

awesome!

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