Liberal: “Russia is colonizing Ukraine!”

Meanwhile the majority of the country is now owned by Blackrock.

Not only that. Companies are now charging people extra for using cards, passing on their processing fees to consumers.

Well, several close friends reached out to end their friendship with me because I won’t vote for Kamala.

Saw this coming, because it happens every time there is an opportunity for liberals to go full fash, but still hurts.

The left needs to start arming themselves and investing in community self-defense

How many times y’all think Putin has watched the clip of Biden calling him President of Ukraine?

Pigs also have emotional intelligence. Unlike cops.

Yet.

Remember, they expanded the draft age just last week. You know, for no reason at all. /s

Liberals are gonna be seething if their kids eventually get drafted for a hot war with China under Trump. It’ll be our job to remind them that the draft expansion was introduced by a fucking Democrat.

Adding to this, there is no guarantee that revolution will be socialist either. It is more likely that the US balkanizes and descends into civil war between multiple factions that will occupy and go to war over different territories.

There may be socialist projects of various tendencies that arise and form from whatever entities take the US’s place. However, I don’t believe the US as it currently exists on its mainland would likely ever become socialist. Of course, anything’s possible.

When the rest of the world eventually embraces a socialist future, they will look upon the US the same way we look at the pathetic dwindling monarchies still existing in our current age of global capitalism.

The world can possibly only deescalate its nuclear arsenal under communism. As terrible as nukes are, anti-imperialist countries having nukes makes it less likely that the imperialists will use theirs.

Even then, “positive stereotypes” embraced by a community still cause a lot of harm, especially when those stereotypes originate outside the community. Like Asians being “model minorities” or Black men having “BBCs”

Every leftist Hollywood movie villain is always some extreme ultraleft accelerationist. See: Killmonger

And every leftist Hollywood hero is an anarchist.

One can only hope this ruins neocon plans to start WW3 over Taiwan.

Also to remember that Jimmy Carter’s administration actually started “Reaganomics.”

Honestly though. When you actually study the context of the political purges in the USSR it’s almost frustrating how forgiving the party under Stalin was in the beginning. Like things eventually escalated to extremity because they kept forgiving saboteurs and opportunists.

I haven’t read much Furr, but as far as the common accusations of “historical revisionism” go…

ALL history books are attempts at historical revisionism. What else is the point of writing a history book if not to recontextualize and revise how we see historical narratives? Any “serious” historian that charges another historian with “revisionism” for offering counter-narratives is a clown.

That’s not to say that a scholar altering cold hard facts should go without challenge (that douchebag Stephane Courtois), but Furr doesn’t do this. Like others have pointed out, his work is well sourced, much of it from the Soviet archives, which when declassified disproved so many anticommunist myths.

Given Furr’s reputation though, I would only feel comfortable bring his name up in leftist circles. If you’re in a discussion with some left-sympathetic liberal on the cusp of a breakthrough and want to recommend an esteemed historian that challenges the “Evil Stalin” narrative, I’d recommend Ludo Martens.

Of course it’s worth it. PSL is the among the most promising left orgs in America right now and whether you’re sympathetic to their ideology/praxis or not, it’s good for every American comrade to familiarize themselves with it.

IMO We need new theory, especially in the imperial core. Marxists in imperial core countries can’t necessarily translate all of the Soviet Union’s or China’s theory to their own country and the dogmatic belief that they can do so is a major thing holding back factions of the Western left.

Because fascism is taught incorrectly in liberal societies.

Instead of fascism being taught as a petty-bourgeois movement that the ruling class uses to violently reestablish their grip on the working class, it’s taught as a mean man with a mustache saying mean things about jews while advocating for “big government.”

Maoists do make compelling points. As communists we should be considering the Maoist point of view without shit-slinging and we should consider criticisms to be in good faith.

The obstacle for me is that Maoist organizing has only gotten weaker support from the masses since the 90s and there has not been any successful projects. From an analysis of theory standpoint, I often find them spot on in many of their observations. The global communist movement is a lot weaker than we (in the West at least) would like to admit. China may be making advances for China and helping to weaken Western imperialism’s hold on the world, which we all obviously applaud, but there’s no concrete evidence to suggest that they will be leading the global communist movement from a place of ideology anytime soon.

We are in a period of retreat and concession to the bourgeoisie still. Are there encouraging signs for the future? Sure. But we’ve got a long way to go. It’s no surprise that there are some overwhelming obstacles for M-L parties in the world that have nerfed the revolutionary energy. But communists are still in the position of gaining support among the masses and you can’t force the revolution without a truly revolutionary situation, especially after 30+ years of unimpeded neoliberalism. Perfect theory is never perfect in practice, and Maoism from Peru and the RIM is proof of this. Meanwhile, the general strike happening in India is a result of the M-L party organizing workers, not the Maoist party. We’re really only just getting started. We can’t let our desperate hopes put the cart before the horse.

Sorry if this comment wasn’t the most clear or connected. I’m just kind of spitballing what’s coming to mind. I personally thought it was a good article. Thanks for sharing.