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“The communism situation is crazy” 1:54:32
Okay, but seriously, talk about communist history like it's hot gossip, and I'll watch two plus straight hours of that video essay.
You say that like it isn't
The Russian Civil War was so cliquey it's unreal.
A lot of Marxist writing is the boys beefing too.
So much of Lenin's writing on communism is just him slagging off other communists, yeah.
And a lot of philosophical writing from Marx's era does that thing where it assumes you've read all his contemporaries and goes about insulting many of them, but since Marx and Engels are often the only ones modern leftists encounter, we tend to chalk it up to "early communists" rather than that era of philosophy and social sciences in general.