Hi comrades ! ☭

[Comrade Crazy Commie]

Hi comrades,
My name is Nicolas, i'm from belgium (sorry if my english is not perfect!) and i'm a member of the Worker's Party of Belgium. (Google it :grin:)


I consider myself a marxist-leninist.
Worker's party of belgium is historically a maoist party, but today we are more into looking towards the future, to bring what we call a "21st century socialism", based principally on what Marx, Engels and Lenin said.

Personally, i believe Khrushchev lied about Stalin (after reading "another view of Stalin" by Ludo Martens (Older president of the WPB) and "Khrushchev lied" by Grover Furr, but i don't like to call myself a maoist or an hoxhaist.
In my everyday life people tell me i know a lot of things and are usually impressed (Most of the 20 years old people doesn't even know who is Che Guevera :glare: at least here in belgium) but i still have to learn a lot and that's why i'm here, to see the opinions of the others on many subject.

I try make my own opinion on every subject, by exemple, even if i'm a marxist-leninist into enver hoxha opinions, i also think Tito has bring many interesting things, i believe that he was totally wrong to be so close to the west (he was such a traitor), but he's one the biggest proof that socialism works (Even if it was with the help of the western countries), most of the ex-yugoslavians regrets him and i have a lot of respect for his accomplishments.


I'm also a collector of everything coming from the east bloc (before 1989). (I even have a soviet bag of patatoes :laugh:)

[Tim Cornelis]

Grover Furr, oh boy. :rolleyes:

Welcome anyway.

[Q]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

And yes, Grover Furr... Ugh.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Welcome to RevLeft. Please enjoy the pleasant atmosphere that resembles the best of the Cultural Revolution and the fight of left-wing tendencies in the old SDS.

Also, a lot of people are probably going to give you shit about Grover Furr because he's a Stalinist, but many of the senior members of this forum are members of the cult of redstar2000, a PLP member.

Such is life.

edit: Concerning Tito, yes, a lot of people here (I live in Croatia) are nostalgic about the period of SFR Yugoslavia, mostly on account of their living standard plummeting after the glorious restoration of democracy. That and there was that war what killed a lot of people. Yet this does not mean that we ought to ignore the negative sides of the Titoist regime. After all, in the end this same regime collapsed in on itself, and while we Trotskyists (of the Canonite persuastion at least) would say that the relations of production in Yugoslavia were not identical to those of capitalism, at the same time it's clear that in Yugoslavia there was no scientifically planned production for human need - socialism, for most of us.

[Thirsty Crow]

Hi and welcome.

And while I'm here, just to correct this misconception:


... i also think Tito has bring many interesting things, i believe that he was totally wrong to be so close to the west (he was such a traitor), but he's one the biggest proof that socialism works (Even if it was with the help of the western countries), most of the ex-yugoslavians regrets him and i have a lot of respect for his accomplishments.

In fact, the historical SFR Yugoslavia was a crystal clear example (as opposed to the much more complex issue of the USSR) of how state capitalism as a category is both conceptually sound in some articulations and very much applicable to historical state formations and modes of production arising from a political revolution. In other words, the "self-managed" enterprise functioned as a particular capitalist enteprise within the political framework of CP monopoly on power and control (also of control of domestic markets).