Was the USSR communist?

[@d4l3d]

If this is original work, this kid is amazing.

[@usayojim]

It is. There are plenty more like him in Socialist Appeal and the International Marxist tendency too!

[@derantiobskurant]

@@usayojim Never seen so many talented young Cadres like @ IMT. Let us never forget that Lenin once was long laughed at by the social revolutionaries for surrounding himself with "boys" because the Bolsheviks had such young members. He knew why - it was important to win over the youth and success, as so often, proves him right. This is another reason why I joined the German section of IMT - called der Funke, like Lenins Newspaper Iskra.

[@dallaskenn]

He's a Goddamned Trot, that's what he is.

[@ONEisN0THING]

​@@derantiobskurant Solidarity from England comrade. You carry on the great work of the spartacus league, admired world wide by cadres. May you rise to a higher level, especially with such great minds within IMT and its leadership. Its that or the far right currents. Your fighting a historic battle comrade. Your hard work could save lives.

[@christopherleary8168]

These young socialists are wonderful speakers. I have faith in Socialism.

[@derantiobskurant]

What a successful lecture, comrade. Greetings from the German Section!

[@jesseweideman4247]

We have to able to understand our failures as marxists and work to implement a true workers' state!!

[@hasanyousaf1]

Great presentation comrade.

[@flintinsects]

Very in-depth. Amazing material!

[@RefurbishedPrototype]

Starts @ 2:22

[@tanujSE]

I don't think it was communist as there was no new plan to eliminate the class relation and also the bureaucracy was degenerative force

[@donlino665]

And oppress any proletariat that fell out of line and was no longer in on it.

[@charleskesner1302]

Interesting. Thanks for this discussion.

[@orangefoxxd6120]

Great stuff!!

[@JasonGoodfellow]

Wow

[@heldergoncalves2744]

WELL What to say about this lecture. Its just Clear Truthfull and Brilliant.

[@cloudmane4159]

How does one square nationalization of industry with the inability of socialism to exist in one state? This point confuses me.

[@diabetusultrainstinct7737]

Stalinists did not believe that the USSR was on its way to communism. Stalin himself kept banging on about the final victory of socialism being when the world revolution is realised. Khrushchevite revisionism is not something that stalinists stand by

[@Amaboutokom]

Bro I need to see all the sources you’re getting from the Soviet union and on the side note the housing problem has only been getting worse since the 1990s in the 50s you could buy 10 houses for a penny (I’m joking about the penny but you get my point) I’m not justifying capitalism It’s just back then in the 50s there’s a lot less people in the US and worldwide to feed and to house then today but I don’t know I would like to hear your comment on this

[@minhng7208]

Samir Amin paraphrases “bureaucracy” as bourgois ideology

[@borelespork4510]

Learn to read and understand Marx Engels Lenin and history too for that matter as your analysis of the Soviet Union dosn't match with any of them. It's always supriced me how the trotskiete retelling of Soviet hostory is so similar to that of the capitalists only difference is that trots make out Trotsky to be a messiah figure even though he was much of an opertunistic buerocrat lusting for power and influence as any one else in the post revolution USSR. At the end of the day it just feels like braindead arguments about transports where nothing matters unless X side wins. And that's not to mention the over exaggerations on historucal figures such as Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. It was workers that shaped history, not great men, and to say otherwise is an idealogical trap resulted from our current capitalist system. Please don't bastardize the legacy of the working class for your own political agenda. Your dogmas are not coherent with history and only serves to dilute marxism to the point where liberals can call themselves communists. Communism is not a sect that you join, it's about the things you learn and do.

[@07Flash11MRC]

The fact that you put Stalin in there with Marx and Lenin as it he had anything in common woth them is just ridiculous. Nobody wants Stalin or his ideology back. It was an absolute catastrophe, mich like càpîtâlì$m.

[@borelespork4510]

@@07Flash11MRC If you have read Stalin or Lenin for that matter you would know that your comment is utterly ridiculous. I guess you're some kind of trotskyist ergo you only read substanceless platitudes. All that to say, I don't trust your ability to make a fair assessment of history let alone theory. I do apologize that I come of as awfully harsh but when you approach me with such self assured vigour I feel it being necessary for me to knock your ego down a peg. If you want some rekomended reading that would challenge your approach to marxism i would have to rekomend "Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity" by V. I. Lenin. Please respond to this comment after having read the book, there is an audio version of it here on youtube by "Socialism for all". Please take your time and be a good comrade.

[@ЛеонидШайдуров-р7ш]

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[@zachmorgan6982]

Funny...its almost like my idea of history is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than his...

[@harpmaster480]

Same here. And I'm a history professor

[@07Flash11MRC]

You were taught càpîtâlí$t propaganda, not actual history. History required an objective look at things, not red-scare subjectivity.

[@andrewwilson711]

I like USSR shirt

[@lordcharfield]

I do. Shame he’s blasphemed it’s glorious name and memory 🤬

[@donlino665]

@@lordcharfieldshut up auth left you people are the reason why communism gets such a bad rep

[@syndicalist-0]

Syndicalism is the only way.

[@reversedragon3]

"it could not without the spreading of the revolution" but it did spread, there were several more workers' states and some of them are still standing

[@oneandonly-oatmeal]

preach! trots really out here tryna say ussr was "socialism in one country" when the ussr itself was already 15 different countries even before liberating multiple more 🥱

[@saschahoupt6177]

Not until after World War two, and at that point the bureaucracy had already fully consolidated its power. And no, a classless society democratically controlled and planned by workers was not what existed in the USSR.

[@jesseweideman4247]

Do you consider China a workers state? Hilarious....

[@donlino665]

*cough cough* the annexation of Tannu Tuva

[@WorkingMan234]

Интересно

[@justinmathews8507]

Stalin would have loved him, but still purged him with everyone else.

[@BimboAmyR]

someone didn't watch the video.

[@donlino665]

@@BimboAmyRif he fell out of line he would purge him

[@harpmaster480]

WTH

[@dallaskenn]

The USSR was socialist, not communist.

[@anastasiakypreou2201]

Please check how socialism is defined by marxist theorists, you sound confused

[@dallaskenn]

@@anastasiakypreou2201 That's it, Trot-troll. Socialism always fore-runs communism. Who's confused now?

[@Slim_45]

True communism was meant to benefit the people..with means of production is owned by the people, not a single authoritarian state!

[@minhng7208]

Your criticism of Stalin is seemingly narrow and does not link to historical balckground. Just look at achievements under Stalin, even pro capitalist Russians acknowledge that

[@joejjohnston]

I think Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the millions of Russians imprisoned under the soviet slave state would disagree.

[@thebigsteaks8752]

Trot alert 🚨

[@jesseweideman4247]

Red fash alert ⚠️

[@ThomasAsseff]

Shit stuff

[@anshumanjaiswal5787]

Wasn't real communism. Lol