In light of user Wisconcom’s community Hoxhaism (created using an alternate account named Ouisconkom), and the anti-China/anti-Mao sectarianism that permeates the rhetoric of the community. It has come to our attention that some members of the community are unhappy with this sort of content being allowed.
In the past, we’ve removed other Ultra-leftists, such as Patriotic Socialists, for their sectarianism. And some of the admins feel this might be a time to do that again.
Lemmygrad’s success depends on transparency and communication between the user base and the admins, so we would like the Lemmygrad community to tell us how they feel about this possible issue.
I wanna expand on this more when I’m off work, but for now I’ll say, they are kinda like Maoists, not as bad as PatSoc on average and I think Hoxha had 2 points I was very confused about because in general I don’t know much about Hoxha, but why did he say Che Guevara is “adventurist” for helping with Revolution in other countries and he also said “Eurocommunism is anti-communism” I’m very confused as to what this means.
I don’t think you need to be a Hoxhaist (I certainly am not) to agree with them that Eurocommunism is absolutely not communism of any sort and arguably that it is anti-communist in that it abuses communist aesthetics to promote a milquetoast socdem platform that shows almost no differentiation from any other strand of liberalism, just with a red flag and a hamsic.
I will absolutely fully admit that I don’t understand enough about Eurocommunism, I assume that Russia is not included in that model, given its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. Does Hoxha refer to Poland, Romania, and Czech Republic? Also tbh I don’t know what they did different, I know that Ceausescu was really awful w abortion policy, what else should I know about Eurocommunism?
So, Eurocommunism is a revisionist tendency started in Italy (lol) in the 70s by the then general secretary of the Communist Party of Italy, Enrico Berlinguer, he was one of many western communists who criticised the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia to put down the ‘Prague Spring’ (along with Ceaçescu) and he subsequently became more and more opposed to the Soviets and promoted the ‘Compromesso Storico’ - a capitulation to right-wing forces in Italy wherein they agreed to support the Christian Democrat minority government. His motivation was seeing Allende be executed by fascists and coming to the insane conclusion that communists could not govern in ‘democractic’ countries without moderating their politics to appease the right.
The Japanese communists are notably Eurocommunist, as are almost all the million different parties in Italy. Even the KKE had a split over this (but it seems their eurocom splinter didn’t last long)
Oh, some more notable things about Berlinguer - he claimed he felt ‘safer’ under NATO’s umbrella than the Soviets’, and when he died, Gorbachev and Zhao Ziyang (China’s Gorbachev) both attended his funeral.
