Leonid Brezhnev

[Unicorn]

What do you think of his contributions to the Marxist-Leninist theory? Do you support or oppose the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Brezhnev doctrine in general?

[spartan]

What do you think of his contributions to the Marxist-Leninist theory? Do you support or oppose the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Brezhnev doctrine in general?

Wasnt he an admirer of Stalin?

I dont personally know of any contributions that he made to Marxism-Leninism other than the fact that under him the USSR became much more Social-Imperialist and censor happy.

[Unicorn]

Wasnt he an admirer of Stalin?
I can't say so. He actually denounced Stalin's follies like the Purge and Lysenkoism.



I dont personally know of any contributions that he made to Marxism-Leninism other than the fact that under him the USSR became much more Social-Imperialist and censor happy.
Social-Imperialist? :glare:
You sound like a Maoist. Do you really admire Erich Honecker? Honecker and Brezhnev were politically very close.

[Dros]

revisionist.

why don't you ask if we like Gorbachev?

[bezdomni]

He followed Khruschev's revisionist line of "peaceful coexistence" and was a bourgeois leader of a social-imperialist party.

[Dros]

also, he's incredibly ugly.

He looks like an obese amphibian

[Unicorn]

He followed Khruschev's revisionist line of "peaceful coexistence" and was a bourgeois leader of a social-imperialist party.
There were substantial differences between Khruschev's and Brezhnev's notions of "peaceful coexistence". Brezhnev wrote:



"But it [the policy of peaceful coexistence] is at the same
time one of the forms of class struggle between socialism
and capitalism. Moreover, it is necessary to remember that
there exist important spheres in which the principle of
peaceful coexistence is altogether inapplicable. It is
unthinkable, e.g., in the field of ideology. Likewise there
can be no question of peaceful coexistence as regards the
domestic processes of class and national liberation struggle
in the capitalist countries or in the colonies, and the
relations between the oppressed and the oppressors, between
the colonizers and the victims of colonialism."

Furthermore, without the policy of peaceful co-existence a massive pre-emptive NATO nuclear strike against the USSR would have been a realistic, even likely, possibility. What more could Brezhnev have done without increasing the risk of nuclear war?

[Digitalism]

also, he's incredibly ugly.

He looks like an obese amphibian

what the fuck does that have to do with anything remotely associated with socialism.

[Die Neue Zeit]

What about his remarks on "national democracy," which repeated Stalin's, Bukharin's, and Mao's line?

[Dros]

what the fuck does that have to do with anything remotely associated with socialism.

We can't have fat frogs leading the class struggle.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Should this thread be in the History forum? The "Brezhnev doctrine" was NOT a theoretical contribution. On the other hand, "national-democratic revolution" was a repeat of the Stalin-Bukharin line that Mao called "new democracy."