Counter-revolutionary? Jesus, 23 years of neo-liberal propaganda really got to you, didn't it?
It's uncertain whether the CPBM really stands for Communism in the same way the old Communist Party...
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Counter-revolutionary? Jesus, 23 years of...Counter-revolutionary? Jesus, 23 years of neo-liberal propaganda really got to you, didn't it?
It's uncertain whether the CPBM really stands for Communism in the same way the old Communist Party...
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He deserved much more than a punch to the face. A...He deserved much more than a punch to the face. A bullet would have been better, to be frank.
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It's not even a charade anymore. The only people...It's not even a charade anymore. The only people that still have the slightest suspicion that China might be even remotely Socialist are western nationalists that feel the need to launch a Cold War...
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America is a historically very rural and...America is a historically very rural and traditional society that bases pretty much every ounce of it's culture and morals on Christianity and conservatism in various forms.
Then take into account...
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I'd have to agree that the worship of Marx and...I'd have to agree that the worship of Marx and his personal ideas amongst Communist movements can sometimes be ridiculous. Calling him sexist seems a somewhat extraordinary claim though. Honestly I...
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Would those who argue against the British Union...Would those who argue against the British Union be so opposed to the idea if it perhaps hadn't taken such an imperialistic tone?
What about historical examples like Yugoslavia, where each...
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Stalinists, as much as they had their own...Stalinists, as much as they had their own problems that needed to be addressed as well, had no real reason to attack the Socialist system that granted them power in the first place.
The reformism...
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The working class is not a single, monolithic...The working class is not a single, monolithic entity.
Not necessarily. In the case of 1956 Hungary, it hadn't even been a decade since the People's Republic was formed and Socialism began to...
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This is getting a bit ridiculous now. I don't see...This is getting a bit ridiculous now. I don't see how you can honestly assert that there was no one in Hungary or any other Eastern Bloc country that sincerely wanted the restoration of Capitalism....
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I agree, just saying it's not as blatantly...I agree, just saying it's not as blatantly Nazistic as it might have seemed at first glance.
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In a certain sense, yes. I don't think it's all...In a certain sense, yes. I don't think it's all that necessary to bog it down with so many semantics though. All I'm saying is that ideological boundaries do not instantly disintegrate even within a...
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Did some reverse image searching.
...Did some reverse image searching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris
False alarm, I'm afraid. :p
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Have to admit it's just something I heard on a...Have to admit it's just something I heard on a whim a few times. Whenever I read what modern Hungarians have to say about the situation they always try to squeeze in a little lament about how "the US...
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I'm afraid I don't see anything good in yet...I'm afraid I don't see anything good in yet another once-revolutionary organization laying down it's arms in order to grant even more control to the bourgeois state. At least while they were active...
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To death? Of course not. I just don't think they...To death? Of course not. I just don't think they had any real power left over the Hungarian working class after a good 8 or so years of Communist rule.
My mistake then. I still think it's...
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Aren't FARC actually organizing peace talks with...Aren't FARC actually organizing peace talks with the Colombian government now for some reason? Looks like they abandoned the values of revolution long ago I'm afraid...
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It was it's own form of Socialist with some quite...It was it's own form of Socialist with some quite strongly Stalinist tendencies pre-1956. There were no Capitalists in the sense of those that owned capital and exploited labour, but I mean it in a...
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It certainly wasn't fascist, but to call it...It certainly wasn't fascist, but to call it proletarian would be a pretty far stretch as well. CIA-backed though? Certainly. It's no secret that the USA and NATO openly backed or at least supported...
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As if the first Red Dawn wasn't crammed full of...As if the first Red Dawn wasn't crammed full of enough bullshit propaganda in the first place, but at least that scenario was plausible..
The idea that North Korea could ever even come close to...
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A global lingua-franca is definitely a great step...A global lingua-franca is definitely a great step towards internationalism and the integration of the human race, but I don't like the idea of that language being English.
English has only...
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Independence is a very different thing from...Independence is a very different thing from nationalism. Of course, by nature of being the somewhat "lesser nation" of the union that is Great Britain, Scottish nationalism has evolved into something...
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Because as much as I might sometimes love to be...Because as much as I might sometimes love to be able to "just stop caring" and live life as carefree and obliviously as I did some 2 or 3 years ago, I just don't see myself ever giving up my beliefs...
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The urban "gangster" society, or whatever you'd...The urban "gangster" society, or whatever you'd like to call it, essentially thrives solely off of the materialistic pop culture that Capitalism has forced upon us since roughly the beginning of the...
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True, but it's a horribly common tendency I've...True, but it's a horribly common tendency I've noticed amongst some Socialists. You often find those that will dedicate their activism entirely towards some moral crusade against Stalinism when...
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You really have to question the allegiances of...You really have to question the allegiances of some people when they will drop all notion of class struggle the moment the "oh so evil and repressive Soviet Union" comes into the question.
If...