The Decline of Britain’s FAILED Stalin

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Today we explore the rise and fall of the Communist Party of Great Britain - and why Britain never had a communist revolution.
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[@solosolo8610]

Every documentary about communism is just them being attacked by capitalist and the person speaking saying see look how bad communism is this is what happens 😂

[@JimmyTheGiant]

I don't think I covered it like that

[@michaelmiller6050]

@@solosolo8610name a single country communism has successfully taken control without murdering millions of people.

[@ekiii3463]

​@@JimmyTheGiant make a video how the british starved millions of indians to death

[@DavidNaval]

i swear squarespace bankrolls your entire life

[@turbostar7077]

To be fair, a communist revolution would be called off here because it was raining.

[@darthdonkulous1810]

The peasants did it in '81... 1381 that is.

[@eadweard.]

You've just repeated a joke that was in the video.

[@kinyemibola4386]

Hilarious stuff

[@TKMRacer28]

I reckon a revolution would be called off because it’s raining here 😂

[@rorymoore9269]

​@@TKMRacer28One was called off in 1848. Well. It was more a march than a revolution.

[@scotty430]

Im not a communist at all, but as a working class scum, that one line "the working man had just earned the right to vote in 1918" is sad as hell. I guess building the nation for pennies and dying by the hundreds of thoussnds in the Great War finally forced their hand 😢

[@scotty430]

Ignore my comment, you took the words outta my mouth later in the video. Great minds think alike 🍻

[@Minimmalmythicist]

They reformed the system because they were scared of revolts.

[@texanarchy666]

you dont have to be a communist to realize most communist revolutions were done for good reasons

[@MyoYoneda]

And the working woman earned their right to vote even later. Think about it.

[@xonerate371]

@@MyoYoneda And giving the vote to every social welfare sponger and immigrant has voted in blair and boris which destroyed your nation…sooooo err a democracy rethink us needed!

[@atomiczoey6363]

Fun fact! the british discourse around the use of tanks against the hungarian uprising is where the term "tankie" comes from

[@Cs13762]

jackboots!

[@KopperNeoman]

@@Cs13762 Can't have any socialism without forcing people to give up their stuff!

[@tobymaltby6036]

.....and there was me thinking it was some kind of rhyming slang 🤣

[@NeurosenkavalierEmilSinclair]

And really, people also tend to forget how life under the ruling class was back then. In russia that was so ridiculously extreme, no wonder the revolution took off. The Tsars family was probably speaking more french and german than russian in their palaces, while workers had basically no rights, lived in the dirt and were one broken leg away for starving. And if anybody was bold or dumb enough to peacefully formulate ideas on how to better their situation, the secret service of the Tsar and the police would drag in in some dark basement and dealt with the problem without any regulations. If I was in that situation, you better bet I would have at least give some idealistic revolutionary a chance instead of living a live without any hope of it getting any better.

[@user-zx5lg3zp2c]

You are wrong, the Tsar was not deposed by the Bolsheviks, but by a provisional government that was interested in reforms within the country. The Bolsheviks opposed this. The only thing they wanted was power. Which they eventually got. And we all know how that turned out.

[@Parthornax]

The funny part is that nothing really changed after the revolution. They were right back where they started secret police and all.

[@lewis123417]

Lol you bought into communist propaganda. The bolshevics didn't overthrow the Tsar they just rewrote history

[@nba2k14hoodmoments3]

@@user-zx5lg3zp2cturned out pretty well for the first socialist experiment to exist tbh

[@greenockscatman]

@@user-zx5lg3zp2c well to be fair the Bolsheviks didn't spring up from thin air after the provisional gov't took over. They'd been in the background plotting for a fair wee while.

[@cofidy]

I'm from Liverpool and a massive part of our recent history is Militant and how they basically seized control of the city council. It's dead interesting, and I think Militant are perhaps one of the most successful far-left forces in the UK's history - in terms of gaining power.

[@EzraSprouts]

Absolutely! The way Militant were misrepresented and demonised is ridiculous. "Better to break the law than break the poor" - who could honestly argue with that?

[@bisque6448]

​@@EzraSprouts people with any understanding of the economy

[@Jomchen]

@@bisque6448 People who say this sort of thing, implying socialists or left-activists don't understand economics... have you heard of Socialist economists? Anarchist economists? Any economist who isn't a market liberal? I mean it's not only a faulty appeal to authority, it's also - in this context - just a very poor argument in favour of blind loyalty to authority over public good. Historically, breaking the law has been a necessary step in usurping authority to achieve progress; why should that change now?

[@user-yf4gx9lw6c]

The Militant actually still exists but changed its name to TUSC. They have members standing as to be Liverpool MPs in the General Election.

[@michaelfox8164]

​@@bisque6448 Back to work wagie, Bezos isn't paying you to sit around writing youtube comments, piss in your drinks bottle and hurry back to the assembly line

[@Grimnir_x]

Zoinks Scoob, these guys really give me the CPGB's

[@lawrencelimburger9160]

hahaha Brilliant!

[@eagleowl833]

😂 thats too good

[@Mr.PDF_File]

Fucking gold 😂😂

[@Oflaherty86]

😂😂 Shut up and pass me that scooby snack

[@ndogg20]

Hard to believe The Ramone's and Blondie were there from the beginning. Oh sorry, re read the post, thought it said CBGBs

[@Searly255]

I think another reason why communism will never take off here is because the rich have segregated themselves. Unless you live around London or Cheshire seeing actual rich people never happens for most. You see them showing off online and what not, but in reality its not bieng rubbed in your face making you angry. If you live in the north east and can't leave that area for example you might see one rich person a year and they are probably a politician. Everyone knows inequality exists here, they just arent made bloodthirsty from it because they have there space and we have ours and were happy with that.

[@mentholkaffee]

Le matérialisme historique de Marx est erroné dans la mesure où il supposait que le capitalisme se résoudrait par ses propres contradictions. C'est en effet le contraire qui s'est produit, après la restauration du capitalisme en Union soviétique, à savoir que le capitalisme moderne tardif a une force de survie énorme, qui est bien sûr aussi liée aux points que tu as soulevés. Mark-Fisher-Pilled

[@NeurosenkavalierEmilSinclair]

Yeah but the thing is, that communists always forced the ones in power to change things to appease the lower classes. The best example I'm aware of is Bismarck who said openly that he was forced to do the social reforms because communist/socialist movements were a real threat for the government. Only if they fear the status quo is in danger, they agree to moderate reforms that benefit the working class. Would I want extreme left to win and lead my country? Hell no. But I support their actions because it's an important lever and shifting the discourse.

[@scpjack7856]

Am from Cheshire and can confirm seeing rich people isn’t that common unless you deliberately go to Newton Le Willows. And why would you do that?

[@nuptvalorant1494]

I for one am not happy about the inequality just because I don't get to see it.

[@Guerillatoker]

It's mostly just a lack of class consciousness, many of Britain''s working class are temporarily embarassed millionaires.

[@guciolini123]

Communism in Poland was never our (polish citizens) choice. Many people in Poland in 1945 ware pro labor wrights, but almost no one was communist, and no one was pro letting Moscow rules here. Communism in Poland happened, cause of the outcome of the II WW - Stalin invaded and started long lasting occupation of this part of Europe. It was the same for Czechoslovakia, Finland, ... If you think about it, Hungary was even on Hitler side! The only exception was Yugoslavia- Tito (who managed to win the war there without USSR's "help" was in some part a communist, but not loyal to Moscow. Yugoslavia and Russia are the only 2 country's in Europe, where there own communists did win.

[@megaduck7965]

My grandfathers from Poland he hated Stalin more than he hated Hitler , and he really hated Hitler .

[@Minimmalmythicist]

You´re right that Stalinism was imposed in those countries, though it should be noted the communist parties had substantial levels of support among the public in most of them (even if the election results were bullshit). Even in Poland, it´s not true that everyone was vehemently against from the start (though a lot were), the Polish government really messed things up in the 70s and 80s, that´s what got people very against them.

[@timonurcikan8196]

Czechoslovakian communist party had big support

[@jimmyvanilla5285]

Poland was never communist, glad that the Red Army saved them from the Nazis though!

[@jimmyvanilla5285]

@@megaduck7965 im sure he definitely "really hated Hitler", don't be suprised if you find any unsavoury war photos of him though

[@martinmaynard141]

I used to share a house with Rosa Rust's son and met her on a number of occasions. I only learnt her true story years later. Lovely lady who didn't dwell on her suffering. One of my links to history which I treasure.

[@Tesco_war_trolley]

I'm a trolley

[@cameronforester8413]

Bosnian Ape Society checkpoint hand over the hot sauce

[@johnsmith-jq1uc]

my pc is more protected than you

[@Tesco_war_trolley]

I'm also not a robot because no

[@oopphh._.]

Cute 🥰💕

[@gershonford3513]

Sexy🎉❤

[@swifts6879]

Its important to bare in mind that the Russian Empire wasn't comparable to its counterparts in the West at the time. It was a much more brutal and authoritarian regime led by a despotic emperor where a majority of the population were slaves to him. The working classes in the western world at the time had it hard, but at least they were free people, which wasn't the case in Russia.

[@robert1200]

And in the western world today, it's either you be a wage slave to Jeff Bezos (or another oligarch) or you starve. So, not really that different.

[@TheMysteryDriver]

Fiefdom. There were lords or whatever you'd call them in Russia as well.

[@KopperNeoman]

Feudalism became slavery over time because the descendants of the lords and serfs forgot why the arrangements were made. Feudalism in fact worked quite well when it was instituted. The serfs got to grow their own food and be protected by knights, the lords got men to work their fields, everyone was happy.

[@swifts6879]

@@KopperNeoman that’s more accurate to Western European history. Russian Serfdom wasn’t feudalism.

[@ethanedwards422]

the average Russian was a serf in the mid 1800s, when they were emancipated, to not get the lords and princes of the Imperial regime to turn against Tsar Alexander 2nd, it was agreed all would be freed, but would have to pay their former lords and princes for reparations, which was a insane. By the time of the revolution most peasants were still paying off those debts to the imperial regime. not only that, but they had their democracy forced off of them. The 1905 revolution led to Tsar Nicholas 2nd setting up a Duma, in which the people were allowed to vote, but the votes of members of the imperial regime counted as more. Come to 1910, Nicholas decided he didn't like sharing power, and forced the Duma to be shut down. Another Duma was set up to appease the people in ww1, but was overridden by the Imperial regime constantly.

[@halaszbotond]

As a Hungarian, it warms my heart that you mentioned our revolution, mate, I really appreciate it

[@Steveharvey-r3v]

Fake in the Daily Mail. What a surprise

[@FrankieW00FR]

Jimmy posts a new video? I watch.

[@gershonford3513]

Indeed

[@Mr.PDF_File]

That's the general idea yep 👍

[@relaxingrhythms9161]

WE watch, comrade

[@EmeraldPixelGamingEPG]

Evidently

[@Platinum_101]

Squarespace loves this man

[@gershonford3513]

😂

[@ANYHOO0]

I hope they give him a massive shout out!

[@daijones5558]

"It got a little messy" in describing the communist regimes may be the greatest understatement of all time

[@mega7070]

What happened to that video about England's seaside towns? I can't find it anymore.

[@saintrobski]

At University in the 1980s, we asked one of the (by then much hipper) Socialist Worker Party members if you could still join the actual Communist Party. He said “Yes, he’s over there eating lunch with his girlfriend”.

[@JosephGaming]

4:30 The Russian Revolution was against the Provisional Russian Government and not the Tsar, he had been deposed in february 1917

[@ethanedwards422]

it was both against the provisional government and the Tsar. while the Tsar had no more power and wasn't even a Tsar, there were a large number of monarchists inside of it. The provisional government itself did not have much support from the people either, as it had tried to carry on the war. The Socialist revolutionaries had the most support from the people, but made the one mistake of letting the Bolsheviks have total dominance of the war department

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

The irony is, Pollitt was the only major leader of the British far left who wasn't a malignant narcissist, and he had the worst ideology of them all.

[@SasquachPL]

31:15 The difference is that those other countries were invaded by the ussr.. it has mostly nothing to do with the political conditions. Many of these countries had a history of democracy and leftist movements. I know you probably know this, but the way you scripted it, it sounded quite ignorant.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

depends which ones, Poland certainly wasn´t a democracy pre-war, nor was Hungary, or Romania.

[@jeanivanjohnson]

​@@Minimmalmythicist hungarian soviet republic?

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@jeanivanjohnson it lasted very briefly

[@jeanivanjohnson]

@@Minimmalmythicist so?

[@XOFInfantryman]

​@@MinimmalmythicistPoland was a democracy, a very flawed one but one regardless for the most of the 20 years between two world wars You can make a case for it being not so much in the later stages for the 2nd republic tho, speaking as a pole myself

[@NeurosenkavalierEmilSinclair]

People, when talking about socialist or communist movements, always forget that communists always forced the ones in power to change things to appease the lower classes. The best example I'm aware of is Bismarck who said openly that he was forced to do the social reforms because communist/socialist movements were a real threat for the government. Only if they fear the status quo is in danger, they agree to moderate reforms that benefit the working class. Would I want extreme left to win and lead my country? Hell no. But I support their actions because it's an important lever and shifting the discourse.

[@user-zx5lg3zp2c]

Social-democracy is the best form of rulling the country.

[@jimmyvanilla5285]

​@@user-zx5lg3zp2c the putting down of the German communist party by the Social Democrats directly aided the rise of the Nazis, you don't have to be a communist to realise that any capitulation to the right inevitably strengthens fascism

[@oliversherman2414]

​@@user-zx5lg3zp2c as a social democrat myself, I agree

[@jointgib]

totally agree. very much applies to 1945 NHS etc when it just so happened all the people were really good at armed combat

[@oliversherman2414]

@@user-zx5lg3zp2c as a social democrat, I definitely agree

[@an4189]

If the reason Britain hasn’t gone to the extreme is due to a WW2 myth is it wrong to keep that myth going?

[@kevinporteous431]

I'm up in fife in Scotland and we had a huge communist presence here up until the end of USSR. We even have a street called Gagarin way which was the only street named after a communist in the free west (allegedly) at the time

[@falconmclenny7284]

Yuck

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

'Arry Pollitt wuz a Wurker, one of Lenin's lads, 'Til 'e wuz foully murdered by those counter-revolutionary cads...

[@RonTodd-gb1eo]

Susan Michie was leader of one faction of UK communists. She was from a family of bankers who married into the minor nobility. She was for a time married to a Corbyn adviser who was from a different banking family which had also married into the minor nobility. Her mother was a Dame a grandfather was a Barron. She once started a speech to the communists with the words “We the working class…”

[@greenockscatman]

Class video yet again, Jimmy! Looking forward to the Thatcher one

[@sirteabag8652]

I'm waiting for "How Peri Peri Chicken took over Great Britain"

[@lawrencelimburger9160]

Enjoyin these new docs loads! GG JtG!

[@jimmyvanilla5285]

37:00 austerity and social budgets being slashed are what emphasise the necessity of revolution

[@ner6503]

thats what im saying

[@manfred2375]

Please more of these history videos. They are so bloo'y good to watch 😂

[@PhilPouch_]

There was a communist uprising in Wales in 1831 known as the Merthyr Rising (It was in Merthyr Tydfil) a bunch of coal miners started to boogaloo and the gov sent the army in and shot a bunch of them dead. It was the first time in the UK the red flag was used as a symbol for the working man. My great great uncle was a part of that uprising. For the record I am not a communist lmao

[@KopperNeoman]

God bless those soldiers for maintaining our freedoms. Must have been tiring work, especially with all the slaves they were soon marching off to free. o7

[@wisdomandchaos]

A great video m8 tnx!

[@AlternativeElvis]

Thanks for that Jimmy, that filled in a lot of gaps in my limited knowledge of the subject

[@matttipper8525]

The amount of work going into these videos is insane! I hope squarespace are paying you well.

[@Blorp_]

Babe wake up, new jimmy vid

[@SNCY29]

This and the Mosley video are class. Continue with the historical videos!!!

[@keircampbell443]

Your videos are fantastic man. Keep doing what you are doing

[@mikeyratcliff3400]

Me and Alexis Sayle went through this with our parents... not the easiest thing to describe to other people but blimey it was an education, however much enforced, and still believe in poking the inequalities of life with a gurt shitty stick ! Many thanks and power to the people etc !

[@Fanaro]

Unexpectedly in-depth, great video.

[@r-1093]

More top tier content, keep it coming mate.

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

22:48 the average reddit administrator

[@dyotoorion1835]

25:52 "He absolutely bummed Stalin..." Hahaha!

[@danielboard9510]

Well researched and informative video essay. Thumbs up.

[@tanyakoleva8335]

The Communism shears the poverty equally the Capitalism shares the wealth unequally.

[@KopperNeoman]

But equally enough that everyone has a chance and nobody starves. Socialists will always hate capitalism for how it freed the working man and took away their pawns.

[@oliverwortley3822]

jimmy, you own me

[@Mardy1801]

"(Politt) absolutely bummed Stalin" 😂😂😂 cracked me up.

[@whackadoo]

I really enjoy this channel ❤❤❤

[@Ben-wo6fy]

Love your videos, bro

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Nice one. And for the algorithm!

[@semo9197]

WE LOVE YOU JIMMY, WE DO

[@RonTodd-gb1eo]

We had our peasants revolt in 1381 got it over with early.

[@bradz291]

Mate loving these videos about obscure English history that doesn’t get taught!

[@theepisofdiabolos-dj5xh]

nice video mate

[@zygoatindustries]

you should definitely do a video on Chartism really interesting British precursor to both the labour movement and Marxism

[@speedyfroglafrog4372]

Hitler does a mad one is an absolutely crazy summary for WW2

[@thespookylocker]

Our Britain 🇬🇧

[@Serato17]

I had no idea, that the Hungarian Revolution had so big impact on the UK’s Communist Party. The word is probably better without the USSR. Thank you for covering this aspect of the history too😊

[@Romartus]

To be somewhat pedantic, the Daily Worker used to illustrate this video is the American Daily worker. The British one was quite different.

[@Wavy_Gravy]

NEW JIMMY! Would be super cool if you and Nick, the fat electrician, jumped on a video. Js.

[@hobnoblegend6646]

Yessss sitting down to a curry and a new video from jimmy after a shit work meeting is the best way to end my day 👌

[@ateampossible]

I clicked on the video link, didn’t saw a video about your over night bus trip. Did you upload it?

[@Reset_the_love_lovely]

Great vid mate. Only my 2nd one of yours after oswald mosely. Hitting subscribe

[@bluellama2348]

ash sarkar mentioned 🔥🔥🔥

[@dmdrosselmeyer]

I'm pretty sure we have a similar subscription list based upon the channels you feature clips from lol Great stuff! New to the channel and I love your work🙏 Also, gotta say: you described anarchism when trying to explain communism. Communism isn't based around removing the structure of the state but, rather, about redistributing capital and the means of production. Big difference even if it doesn't seem like it

[@mathiaswilhelm1902]

I really like how if they’res anything the uk has in common with anything is being a failure

[@josephsolowyk7697]

I love how his name was Pollit as in Politburo lol.

[@whiskeygamer9402]

By the the looks of it Communism already coming back to UK😂

[@mikethetowns]

23:55 - Comrade Horse tried his best to fight against the establishment from the inside

[@highgradedfilms]

29:37 Orwell defo got inspo from this for 1984 👀

[@CocoaCallo]

In Bulgaria communism was forced to the country externally by the soviet army invading Bulgaria and occupying it. The communist party barely had any members and the population had no interest in this regime.

[@danielstruwig3078]

Thatcher did save economy from total collapse though.

[@KopperNeoman]

that's why the pinkos hate her, their master george soros was thwarted

[@kohhna]

"save the economy", for who? She destroyed the economy of the North and created the conditions that have led to the prolonged general economic collapse we've seen for the last decade+

[@cap4tuffi]

In every video about communism everyone saying "communism become messy...", every regime in history of this world is messy

[@cap4tuffi]

And by the way gulags is just our soviet prisons, not British or other Imperialist country concentration camp in Africa

[@LiamNI]

Bullion is definitely NOT something you mine... It's refined Gold bars. You mine "ore", which you then refine into gold, then form into bullion. Lad, come on...

[@relaxingrhythms9161]

Back when different political supporters couldnt direct tweets at each other and it was literally on sight

[@manekrit2417]

Poland was one to declare war on soviet Russia for which it almost got clapped.

[@robinhazell6019]

I have requested you to make a video about the Anarcho-Punk sub-culture a couple of times. You have never replied. That was more recent than this video.

[@rasmusirlind8829]

he probably wasn't short enough, georgian enough, or had a mustache

[@ot7ll]

lit

[@Llakjshsheueheheu]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@user-lx1lu8qr7e]

Great watch, just a little note though, bullion isn't a "raw material", it's actually refined to a very high level of purity.

[@nyahsiobhan]

BABE WAKE UP JIMMYTHEGIANT POSTED!!

[@LondonMapping2]

1:45 what clip is that does anyone have the link?

[@jamesdreads7828]

I'm pretty sure that's the yt channel epichistorytv

[@LondonMapping2]

@@jamesdreads7828 i had the exact thought but i cant find the clip

[@ismugireson7622]

first heard about this was peaky blinders 😂

[@eagleowl833]

Say what you want about our country, Im glad the UK survived

[@jeanivanjohnson]

lol what? imagine being glad that this country survived... any sane person would wish that UK wouldn't exist

[@timjohnathan]

@@jeanivanjohnson ok commie

[@JNJG1999]

@eagleowl833 WHAT!? what planet on your on? our country is dying! Can't get a decent doctor's appointment or anything else, shops are closing, inflation keeps going up, the standard of living is going down and jobs are in short supply. I'm suprised we haven't collapsed by now.

[@dh1380]

It's still a fucking great place. It is a shadow of its former self but unless you've been around a bit you probably have no idea... Could it be better? Yes. Have our politicians failed us? Yes. Are we in decline? Yes. Are we losing faith in institutions? Yes. But it is still fucking great. If we lose hope entirely, that's when we become Russia, North Korea, China, even some of the Balctic states. Not being funny but have you been to Paris lately, for example? It's a dump! Keep the faith. Hold the line. See the bigger picture. Vote.

[@charliezobel511]

​@@JNJG1999strange how I hear the same thing from friends in Germany, Austria and Spain but keep telling yourself it's only happening in the UK

[@LiamNI]

9:50 - according to that poster his name was "Garry", not "Harry". Harry is spelled Харри in Russian.

[@LiamNI]

In case you're wondering "Г" in Cyrillic is "G" in case that wasn't obvious

[@HoussamNekkaa]

Crazy how Britain had it own hitler and own Stalin 😂😂😂😂

[@megaduck7965]

Harry Prollit in contact with the Polit Bureau? Coincidence ? I think not !

[@DavidHughesss]

12:48 - I have been pronouncing Zinoviev wrong all my life. I thought it was "Zinovi-ev".

[@FRM101]

well done ... if you had a channel dedicated exclusively to history vids, maybe teenagers would learn, and actually like, history

[@absurdbird3556]

Future dictator? Have you read the manual, Jimmy?

[@jonathanbayley1551]

Gimme some acid communism

[@StephanKochs]

Okayish video but you know that all of this a little bit more complicated than “we had democracy over here” at the end. History and society is much more complicated and confusing than this.Especially after e.g. the Industrial Revolution, nation building out of feudalism and WW 1 and the Great Depression.

[@FRM101]

18:01 In America, communists had no shot at controlling the unions because a handful of 99 level capitalists got their first: Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese.

[@wadeodonoghue1887]

The Capitalist vs Communist polarity debate is to me like the debate around masculine vs feminine, people pretend like they don't sit on both sides. Boiled down to it's essence Capitalisms says "I" am most important and communism "We", arguing which is better is like trying to figure out whom is prettier the Sun or the Moon. If you should list the pro's and con's of the I-mentality vs the We-mentality you will find that these two views seem to be strong where the other is weak they are the Jing to the others Yang. I have individuality and We have collaboration. I have potency and We have a place to be potent together. The hole through which I experience life at it's base is as the eye of a needle and this piecing of consciousness into life is miracle no one of us "owns". To give a few dichotomies the I and We share.

[@joebilly7921]

Jimmy can you talk about the political reform by benjamin disraeli in the 19th century

[@Minimmalmythicist]

Stalinism in particular never had a big following in the UK, nor did it in West Germany interestingly enough, I think Orwell had a big influence on stopping the British left going in that direction and British socialism always had a big Christian socialist element, i.e the first Labour leader, Keir Hardie, was an evangelical I believe (that must sound weird to contemporary American readers, an Evangelical socialist!). I´m socialist but not an out and out communist, I think communism as people intended it, i.e a society with no hierarchies, isn´t really possible in big large scale societies, I think you have to have some sort of central government to protect people´s rights, people aren´t good enough to live in large societies without big restrictions on their behaviour.

[@tempejkl]

‘Stalinism’ is an ideology made up by the rapist, paedophile, and plagiarist, George Orwell. George Orwell was directly funded by the CIA, IRD, and other imperialist organisations. ‘Newspeak’ is based of broadcasts in the British Raj, where George Orwell helped repress the population. He showed an affinity for facism, calling Hitler ‘deeply appealing’ and fighting against the socialists in the Spanish Civil War. Socialism was never intended to be the end goal. ‘Stalinism’ is plainly just Marxism-Leninism - personal characteristics don’t determine ideology.

[@bisque6448]

That's not true. Orwell had big issues publishing some of his novels because his publishers were big Sovietophiles.

[@youcanthandlethetruth8873]

@@tempejkl Personal characteristics obviously do influence ideology. Don't be silly, mate.

[@adexterwolfe]

Jimmy bruv whats the music at 15:12

[@daaljones9584]

Thought this was a about vote reform before it started 🤣🤣

[@manekrit2417]

3rd internation didn`t just disapear it was dissolved by Stalin to cozy Britain and France to get defensive pact with them. But France rejected deal in 1936 lol. So USSR pacted with Germany and rest is history.