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  1. RHIZOMES
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    I really should get around to making some more of the psychedelic Kanye West avatars for people, I will try in the two-week break starting next week...
  2. RHIZOMES
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    Awesome avatar
  3. ComradeOm
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    Honestly, I've never read him. A quick google search doesn't produce the most flattering results but then that's no real indication as to his worth. Sorry I can't be of more help
  4. Honggweilo
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    There policy of volountering in the Iraqi army during the Iraq-Iran war was utterly idiotic and lost them almost all support within Iran. They are like the anti-germans of Iran
  5. scarletghoul
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    yes, it is, in my oppinion
  6. scarletghoul
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    Awesome! Haha no problem comrade im glad you liked it
  7. Kassad
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    Mao, like Stalin, purged their party of capitalists, reactionaries and infiltrators. This was necessary to sustain their revolutionary struggle and socialist construction. In my opinion, Mao failed to purge the party totally; standing aside even while Deng gave a speech to the United Nations calling for market reforms. Also, the idea that Mao 'rejected' Stalin is pretty absurd, since he consistently upheld him. I usually see that kind of thing promoted by capitalists and bourgeois scholars. China treaded towards revisionism by siding with the United States against the Soviet Union to gain their favor.
  8. Kassad
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    As the early 90's saw the destruction of the socialist camp in Europe and Asia, Cuba was left to fend for itself. Fidel Castro, instead of making Cuba self-sufficient, relied on trade with the Soviet Union, notably with rice, which is abundant in Cuba and is one of its primary resources. After the collapse, the Cuban economy hardly managed to hang on. They were lucky to survive. I believe Cuba is socialist, but they could have done a lot better at implementing it and because of their mistake, they are having trouble keeping up industrially.

    I would say that most anti-revisionists view Cuba favorably and the grievance I had is one shared by a lot of other anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninists. Cuba is the only functioning proletarian state in the world right now and it should be defended vigorously.
  9. Kassad
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    Thanks for the congratulations.

    On to your question, I'll answer this the best I can. I believe Cuba to be a socialist state. Legislature is debated and passed by workers, there is no hierarchal elitism and everyone has access to healthcare, education, food, shelter and much more. However, I also subscribe to Joseph Stalin's theory of 'socialism in one country.' To be brief, the theory states that all developing socialist states should develop as if they were the only socialist states alive. That doesn't mean they shouldn't work, collaborate, struggle and trade with other socialist states, but merely that they should not be relied upon.

    (Read this first, part 2 is next. I can only post 1000 characters)
  10. Kassad
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    I would love to provide some type of source in that regard, but due to the massive passage of time and the consistent fabrication by bourgeois sources, I highly doubt you can find many workers accounts, let alone positive ones, of the former Soviet Union. Right now, all I can tell you is that when observing revisionism in the Soviet Union, you must take into account the role of imperialist intervention and aggression. Trotskyists hardly acknowledge it and Anarchists don't acknowledge it at all.
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    Lenin was a Trotskyist!

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