@SwampCommunist I haven’t seen that, can you link posts where people are saying this?
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Fertile Trotsky
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Fertile Trotsky
@fertile_trotsky
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Hes a professor, he was already petit-bourgeois without the tenants
yocheved 🇵🇸@saintyoche
Just discovered my Marxist professor has a side hustle as a landlord
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@Plz_Relax_ To be petit-bourgeois, theyd need to own property.
Confusion is understandable, though, given that historically their social position has often been similar to the PB. With monopoly capitalism we tend to see significant social differentiation within the intelligentsia’s ranks.
Fertile Trotsky@fertile_trotsky
@mlminpractice The intelligentsia are not a class, since they aren't characterized by their own specific relationship to the means of production. However, as capitalism develops, their political positions are largely influenced by their social positions (e.g., closer to the proletariat)
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You all not knowing that lawyers and professors are petit-bourgeois is pretty funny. Mostly because it's clear you view the word "bourgeois" as a moral condemnation rather than just a class description. Lenin was a lawyer and he could still be revolutionary.
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Hes a professor, he was already petit-bourgeois without the tenants
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@mlminpractice The intelligentsia are not a class, since they aren't characterized by their own specific relationship to the means of production. However, as capitalism develops, their political positions are largely influenced by their social positions (e.g., closer to the proletariat)
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This discourse is driving me insane, Lenin and Mao absolutely considered academia & the intelligentsia to be of the petty bourgeois and a bunch of people on here are acting like it’s completely out of left field for an ML to say the same
carl beijer@_carlbeijer
Huge number of "communists" on this site would've absolutely hated Marx, Lenin, and Mao
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@annalstrong1885 @MSpondee @guerillabizkit It’s interesting to see how the labor aristocracy’s privilege is also the thing that makes them fiercely resistant to the solution of their problems (e.g. depression)
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@MSpondee @guerillabizkit Imagine being so privilege that you think it’s a death sentence to be a normal worker.
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@AnonLefttwt Start with the text I linked. It's pretty easy, so it won't take you very long to get through.
dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/collec…
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"Hi leftwt. I'm larping as a communist through stalinist hype and aura edits but if I genuinely wanted to get into the whole marxism thing what should I start with"
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I admire and mourn this man and his forthrightness. Sorry not sorry
foxy marxist ☭🔻🏳️⚧️@AprilsBooks
I miss Yahya Sinwar. I really do
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@redf0undation Lenin & Stalin often make the distinction btwn the victory of socialism (SIOC; socialist production) & its final victory (global communism).
Lenin also viewed the NEP as a way of building the prereqs for socialist production. Another interesting article: michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
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@Sam36020536 @stalinslefthook @After__History Everyone wanted to industrialize; the issue was how. The industrialization that occurred did so on the basis of a peasant-proletariat alliance, handling the peasantry carefully.
The left opp. wanted to do it at such a pace that wasn’t economically possible at that time
Fertile Trotsky@fertile_trotsky
@rappergamertag I think this misses the main point: industrialization COULDN’T have happened earlier. Industrialization needed to be funded by the peasants, at their expense—everyone agreed on this. But in the early-mid 20’s, the peasants hadn’t recovered economically, so it was impossible t>>>
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@stalinslefthook @After__History The left opposition platform was for intense industrialisation. It was in adopting aspects of this policy of industrialisation that got Stalin his reputation as an arch centrist
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Had Trotsky won, his USSR would have been, ironically, far more bureaucratic than Stalin’s, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. The problem with Stalinism is that it was not bureaucratic enough. A powerful bureaucracy means greater stability and less terror.
Picket line shield 🛡@BasedNeeble1917
@rappergamertag Because genuine marxists are for workers democracy, not stalinist bureaucracy. So instead of idolizing the ussr, it is critiqued and understood why it failed. Idk read revolution betrayed.
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@squidnyaknife @PunishedFredda Lol what’s the story behind ripping out that page? Was this a common thing to do?
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@PunishedFredda does it have the lin biao page? mine appears to have been ripped out
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@PunishedFredda 1st edition too 😮💨… relationship goals
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🟩 Abortion
🟩 Physician-assisted suicide
🟥 Homosexuality
🟩 Changing one’s gender
🟩Pornography
🟩 Divorce
🟩 Birth control
🟩 Pre-marital sex
🟩 Polygamy
🟩 Gambling
🟩 Death penalty
🟩 Medical testing on animals
🟩 Cloning
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Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in history.
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