#stalinism — Public Fediverse posts
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What tankies mean when they talk about "Left Unity"
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2059787/what-tankies-mean-when-they-talk-about-left-unity
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What tankies mean when they talk about "Left Unity"
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What tankies mean when they talk about "Left Unity"
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What tankies mean when they talk about "Left Unity"
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2059787/what-tankies-mean-when-they-talk-about-left-unity
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What tankies mean when they talk about "Left Unity"
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2059787/what-tankies-mean-when-they-talk-about-left-unity
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Berlusconi returns to power in Italy; Terry Tyler arrested in Louisiana; Battle of Soyang River in Korean War; British General Strike betrayed.#Italy #Berlusconi #OliveTree #HouseofFreedoms #ForzaItalia #Stalinism #TerryTyler #GaryTyler #policeframe-up #YoungSocialists #KoreanWar #SoyangRiver #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #China #Britain #GeneralStrike #TUC #TradesUnionCongress #CPGB #CommunistParty #Purcell #Hicks
This week in history: May 11-17 -
Berlusconi returns to power in Italy; Terry Tyler arrested in Louisiana; Battle of Soyang River in Korean War; British General Strike betrayed.#Italy #Berlusconi #OliveTree #HouseofFreedoms #ForzaItalia #Stalinism #TerryTyler #GaryTyler #policeframe-up #YoungSocialists #KoreanWar #SoyangRiver #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #China #Britain #GeneralStrike #TUC #TradesUnionCongress #CPGB #CommunistParty #Purcell #Hicks
This week in history: May 11-17 -
Berlusconi returns to power in Italy; Terry Tyler arrested in Louisiana; Battle of Soyang River in Korean War; British General Strike betrayed.#Italy #Berlusconi #OliveTree #HouseofFreedoms #ForzaItalia #Stalinism #TerryTyler #GaryTyler #policeframe-up #YoungSocialists #KoreanWar #SoyangRiver #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #China #Britain #GeneralStrike #TUC #TradesUnionCongress #CPGB #CommunistParty #Purcell #Hicks
This week in history: May 11-17 -
Berlusconi returns to power in Italy; Terry Tyler arrested in Louisiana; Battle of Soyang River in Korean War; British General Strike betrayed.#Italy #Berlusconi #OliveTree #HouseofFreedoms #ForzaItalia #Stalinism #TerryTyler #GaryTyler #policeframe-up #YoungSocialists #KoreanWar #SoyangRiver #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #China #Britain #GeneralStrike #TUC #TradesUnionCongress #CPGB #CommunistParty #Purcell #Hicks
This week in history: May 11-17 -
Just a little more authoritarianism bro and it'll all reverse, I promise
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Un Portrait de Staline. Laurent Lévy. Review.
Laurent Lévy Un portrait de Staline. Aragon, Picasso et le parti communiste. La Fabrique. 2026.
On the 5th of March 1953 Stalin died. “He personified, not only the USSR and the Soviet people, but Communism itself.” The General Secretary of the French Communist Party, Maurice Thorez, had famously declared himself to be “the best disciple of Stalin in France”. In 1949 a whole train of gifts was sent from France to celebrate the 70th birthday of the ruler of the Kremlin.
When news of Stalin’s death reached France, leaders and members of the Parti communiste français (250,000 to over 400,000 members during this decade) – unaware of what Laurent Lévy Calls the “Shakespearian scenes” around the Leader’s passing – were seized with emotion. L’Humanité, featured a massive portrait of Stalin on March 6, 1953, with a stark, sombre headline announcing the death. On Tuesday, March 10, 1953, a huge public evening of homage was held at the Vel d’Hiv (Vélodrome d’Hiver) in Paris.
The one-time Surrealist, and poet, Lois Aragon, edited the Communist Party cultural journal Les Lettres françaises, (from 1953 to 1972). He had the genial idea of commissioning a portrait of the deceased Father of the Peoples by the world most celebrated artist, and Communist, Pablo Picasso. The design (above), drawn with fusian, (charcoal), was not the painter’s first idea. This it seems was the picture Stalin as a Greek hero on a cloud. But that, he had concluded, stumbled on how to draw the ‘zizi’ (willy), either classically discreet, or large as a Minotaur’s. (P 72 -3)
The did not receive good reception from Communist activists, or the Party leadership, An ““incroyable vague d’indignation” swept the Party. Laurent Lévy describes how the reaction of activists was soon part of n “orchestrated campaign by the leadership. Very shortly this statement was issued: “The Secretariat of the French Communist party categorically disapproves the publication in Les Lettres Francaises of March 12 of the portrait of the Great Stalin drawn by Comrade Picasso.”
The Affaire du portrait de Staline obliged Aragon to publish a raft of it critical letters and was swept up in the campaign by leading PCF member, Auguste Lecœur, to defend ‘socialist realism’. Maurice Thorez ordered by telegram from his convalescent home, Barvikha Sanatorium near Moscow., where he was recuperating from a stroke, to put a stop to this “ridiculous debate”. Lévy observes that the PCF chief leant towards a “Front populaire” attitude towards intellectuals and artists, embracing their support, not staking out a ‘class against class ‘ line based on the ‘proletarian ethos’.
The affair served as the backdrop for the great “discussion on painting” in La Nouvelle Critique at the end of 1953 and in the spring of 1954. This pitted what was known as “realism” against “formalism.”
Perhaps one of the most interesting political aspects of Un portrait de Staline is the account of Aragon’s gnawing dissatisfaction with Stalinism. His dislike of the anti-Semitism surrounding the ‘Doctors’ Plot’ grew. It was heightened by his Sister-in-law, the Jewish, and Russian resident, Lili Brik – whose family had had four members shot in 1937 – lived in “permanent fear” (P 121).
Elsa Triolet, his wife, published in 1957, Le Monument. The novel is about a sculptor, Lewka, who is commissioned by the government to create a massive, monumental statue of Stalin. Lewka is conflicted over strict, Party-mandated, artistic standards (socialist realism) while trying to maintain his own vision.
In 1966 the French Party accepted the right to absolute artistic freedom. Lévy equally notes that the book had a great impact on Jean Kanapa, one-time right-hand man of PCF leader George Marchais, opponent of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and a leading French supporter of Eurocommunism. Aragon, Un Portrait de Staline concludes, played an “essential role” in defending artistic freedom. This concise book is not just about the Affaire du Portait de Staline. It illuminates the deeper tragedy of Stalinism.
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Ah, left unity!
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This week in history: April 13-19
25 years ago: Ethiopian Special Forces massacre 41 university students On April 18, 2001, Ethiopian Special Forces remorselessly…
#Europe #EU #AddisAbaba #China #dance #ECSC #EEC #Ethiopia #EuropeanCoalandSteelCommunity #EuropeanUnion #India #IndiraGandhi #MarthaGraham #Narayanan #RobertSchulman #SovietUnion #Stalinism #TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront #TPLF #Zewdie
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Berlinale Retrospective: A look back at the fall of the Berlin Wall—“Lost in the 90s”
It is no coincidence that this year’s Berlinale Retrospective was titled “Lost in the 90s.” The burning problems…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Berlin #BerlinWall #capitalism #EastGermany #GDR #Gorbachev #Jean-LucGodard #RichardLinklater #Stalinism #Stasi #Tito #WernerHerzog #Yugoslavia
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/55037/ Berlinale Retrospective: A look back at the fall of the Berlin Wall—“Lost in the 90s” #berlin #BerlinWall #capitalism #EastGermany #GDR #Germany #gorbachev #JeanLucGodard #RichardLinklater #Stalinism #Stasi #Tito #WernerHerzog #Yugoslavia
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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster
A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known as “Socialism in One Country.” The policy argued that a single country could construct an advanced socialist economy within its national borders.
https://internationalsocialist.net/2026/03/stalin-socialism-in-one-country/
#marxism #stalinism #theory #politics #capitalism #economy #communism #socialism
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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Why I left Anarchism, and then came back
https://youtu.be/qc7QVofykyA#Anarchy #Anarchism #Tankies #Campists #Stalinism #Autonomy #Authoritarianism
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@annafromukraine.bsky.social
EMPTY BUDGET IN RUSSIA REGIONS: PROTESTS AGAINST KREMLIN Vlog 1324: War in #Ukraine
#russia
#russiaiscollapsing
Very slowly and it will 1917 or #stalinism 2.02/18/2026
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Not quite a utopia, but a functioning society at the least!
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Not quite a utopia, but a functioning society at the least!
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/756199/ Germany: At Bosch, Stalinist MLPD attacks opposition to IG Metall union apparatus #Bosch #EU #Europe #Germany #IGMetall #MLPD #Stalinism #TradeUnionBureaucracy #WorksCouncilElection
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Germany: At Bosch, Stalinist MLPD attacks opposition to IG Metall union apparatus
In March 2024, 10,000 employees demonstrated against layoffs in front of the Bosch headquarters in Gerlingen near Stuttgart…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #bosch #germany #igmetall #MLPD #Stalinism #TradeUnionBureaucracy #WorksCouncilElection
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Weimar Germany was a shitshow
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1732793/weimar-germany-was-a-shitshow
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@rainynight65 that’s not true that it was a violent ideology. The first revolution that Lenin led was bloodless. Also the reason why it’s called #stalinism is because Stalin himself did the opposite of what Lenin wanted. Please read https://www.marxists.org/archive/grant/1946/02/aleksandrov.htm there has always been a vilification of Lenin because of Stalin.
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@AlexanderKingsbury This is why education is paramount. The countries you summarize are only following “their type” of #marxist theory. If you do your research and read about those countries and cross reference with Marxist theories and “ideology” you will see it’s not what Marx, Engel or Lenin talked about. They just used it as an excuse to take control. Good example #stalinism , this type of ideology did not reflect the teachings of true Marxism. Again this why education is so important.
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But unless you are an ignorrant In 1989 it was the fall of #Stalinism And #Putin is reclaiming the authoritarian heritage of #Stalinism
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Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth are mounting an aggressive push to #politicise the top ranks of the US #military
– a push that smacks of #Stalinism and could take years to repair,
the former infantry chief who trained troops to invade Iraq has warned.Maj Gen Paul #Eaton has sounded the alarm, saying in an interview with the Guardian that the effort to bend the higher echelons of the military to the US president’s will was unparalleled in recent history
and could have long-term dire consequences.He warned that both the reputation and efficiency of the world’s most powerful fighting force was in the balance.
“There is an active effort to ❌politicise the armed forces,” Eaton said.
“Once you infect the body, the cure may be very difficult and painful for presidents downstream.”He added that the actions of Trump and his chosen head of the Pentagon were putting the standing of the military as an independent entity, free from party politics, at risk.
“As the phrase goes, reputation is built a drop at a time and emptied in buckets.” -
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth are mounting an aggressive push to #politicise the top ranks of the US #military
– a push that smacks of #Stalinism and could take years to repair,
the former infantry chief who trained troops to invade Iraq has warned.Maj Gen Paul #Eaton has sounded the alarm, saying in an interview with the Guardian that the effort to bend the higher echelons of the military to the US president’s will was unparalleled in recent history
and could have long-term dire consequences.He warned that both the reputation and efficiency of the world’s most powerful fighting force was in the balance.
“There is an active effort to ❌politicise the armed forces,” Eaton said.
“Once you infect the body, the cure may be very difficult and painful for presidents downstream.”He added that the actions of Trump and his chosen head of the Pentagon were putting the standing of the military as an independent entity, free from party politics, at risk.
“As the phrase goes, reputation is built a drop at a time and emptied in buckets.” -
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth are mounting an aggressive push to #politicise the top ranks of the US #military
– a push that smacks of #Stalinism and could take years to repair,
the former infantry chief who trained troops to invade Iraq has warned.Maj Gen Paul #Eaton has sounded the alarm, saying in an interview with the Guardian that the effort to bend the higher echelons of the military to the US president’s will was unparalleled in recent history
and could have long-term dire consequences.He warned that both the reputation and efficiency of the world’s most powerful fighting force was in the balance.
“There is an active effort to ❌politicise the armed forces,” Eaton said.
“Once you infect the body, the cure may be very difficult and painful for presidents downstream.”He added that the actions of Trump and his chosen head of the Pentagon were putting the standing of the military as an independent entity, free from party politics, at risk.
“As the phrase goes, reputation is built a drop at a time and emptied in buckets.” -
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth are mounting an aggressive push to #politicise the top ranks of the US #military
– a push that smacks of #Stalinism and could take years to repair,
the former infantry chief who trained troops to invade Iraq has warned.Maj Gen Paul #Eaton has sounded the alarm, saying in an interview with the Guardian that the effort to bend the higher echelons of the military to the US president’s will was unparalleled in recent history
and could have long-term dire consequences.He warned that both the reputation and efficiency of the world’s most powerful fighting force was in the balance.
“There is an active effort to ❌politicise the armed forces,” Eaton said.
“Once you infect the body, the cure may be very difficult and painful for presidents downstream.”He added that the actions of Trump and his chosen head of the Pentagon were putting the standing of the military as an independent entity, free from party politics, at risk.
“As the phrase goes, reputation is built a drop at a time and emptied in buckets.” -
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth are mounting an aggressive push to #politicise the top ranks of the US #military
– a push that smacks of #Stalinism and could take years to repair,
the former infantry chief who trained troops to invade Iraq has warned.Maj Gen Paul #Eaton has sounded the alarm, saying in an interview with the Guardian that the effort to bend the higher echelons of the military to the US president’s will was unparalleled in recent history
and could have long-term dire consequences.He warned that both the reputation and efficiency of the world’s most powerful fighting force was in the balance.
“There is an active effort to ❌politicise the armed forces,” Eaton said.
“Once you infect the body, the cure may be very difficult and painful for presidents downstream.”He added that the actions of Trump and his chosen head of the Pentagon were putting the standing of the military as an independent entity, free from party politics, at risk.
“As the phrase goes, reputation is built a drop at a time and emptied in buckets.” -
Intellectuals and Revolution
https://world-outlook.com/2025/12/30/intellectuals-and-revolution/
from #WorldOutlook
Dec. 30, 2025The following is a 1961 reply by J.P. Cannon — chairman of the Socialist Workers Party at the time, to a letter and postscript by SWP leaders George Novack and Evelyn Reed about their recent visit with sociologist C. Wright Mills — author of Listen Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba.
The letter by Novack and Reed centered on an exchange of views the two of them had with Mills on the Cuban revolution, as well as broader issues, including #Marxism and #Stalinism.
The 1959 revolutionary victory in #Cuba had a transformational impact, inspiring greater collaboration among fighters for social change who came from different backgrounds and experiences all over the world.
What is striking in this correspondence is the open-mindedness of #socialist leaders at the time, the interest in finding common ground with fighters committed to struggle for a world of equality and human solidarity.