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What Is The Deal With Trotskyism And Maoism? (lemmygrad.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11136332

Edit: I'm from the Global South, I should've clarified that on the post. The lesson has been learned.

Many leftist movements, legit or not, call themselves either Trotskyist or Maoist and keep dissing Stalin for his “socialism in one state” policy and “ruining” Comintern and Deng Xiaoping for his “liberal” policies.

I want to know what they are trying to do by distancing themselves from the USSR and PRC while fetishizing Cuba and Vietnam—you’ll only hear them talking about the Vietnam War, btw—and following either the guy who lost the power struggle or a literal Marxist-Leninist who supported one of the refused countries and founding the other.

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think they truly realise what they are, functionally, they're still idealistic liberals in a red coat of paint, but as far as they are concerned they are leftists doing leftism the only correct way, which I think is why they attack other leftist tendencies so much, it's the same reason liberals attack leftists so much. Their worldview cannot handle the idea that they could be wrong, so their only solution is to attack the people who can actually prove that they are wrong, so they don't have to worry about that possibility.

[–] Oskolki@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Something people forget about is figures like Lenin, Mao, Che, Stalin. People like Inessa Fyodorovna Armand. These people chose the path of severe hardships.

They didn't just lead the people, they sometimes begged for survival themselves, Gramsci was born with severe disabilities and literally spent most of his life writing in a prison, Stalin went in and out of work camp several times. Lenin was shaving his beard and coming up with fake identities to hide himself as people were out for his head, Armand overworked herself to death.

You don't need to look so far back in history. Do you know about Huang Wenxiu? I'm assuming on Hexbear some people would, but people like her seem to be almost completely out of Western leftist consciousness. Because these kinds of organization efforts are illegal. It's illegal to do mass organizing for actually helping people, at best it's anarchism which operates so disjointly by the time they build 1 hospital bed a - political party could have built 1 whole hospital with trained staff.