My dad called me one last week. I told him I’m not even a communist, just a moderate social democrat who likes Soviet symbols for the shock value. (Not true, I’m a Marxist-Leninist, but gotta keep the peace with family, IYKYK.) But now I’m wondering, is “Stalinism” even a thing? Are any of you bears “Stalinists”?
Stalinism is used by Hoxhaists to self-identify, used by Trots as a pejorative for Marxist-Leninists, or can be used to refer to Stalin’s policy in the soviet union (such as socialism in one country). “Stalinism” as an ideology is just Marxism-Leninism, which Stalin synthesized.
Libs and Trots wield the fear of Stalin as a club to silence Marxist-Leninists in public spaces by calling us “Stalinists.”
do you think it’d be funny to plunge a know-nothing lib into the deep end of the olde leftist infighting, by saying “I’m not a stalinist, stalinists are Hoxhaists, I’m a Marxist-Leninist! That’s like calling a Marxist-Leninist who adheres to Mao Zedong thought a Maoist. You’re practically spitting in their face because you’re calling them a gonzolite baby bath-water enjoyer or a pot-head!”
“whats a pot-head?”
“someone that hates cities and glasses”
“like a hipster?”
“sure lets go with that.”
I assume it would be like walking into the Star Wars cantina for them.
Calling soneone a Rosa killing luxembourgist is advanced leftism
“Do you want the entire story of scientific socialism starting with Marx and Engels, or do you just want to know why real socialists never trust socdems?”
I think it would be hilarious to drag a clueless lib into leftist infighting. Take this random social democrat who wants to learn about the actual left, instead of forcing him to read Lenin until his eyes are bleeding and he still doesn’t have any greater understanding, just a bunch of outdated terminology and a pounding headache, drag him into a place where leftists infight and tell him “go talk to people, I need to go to the ladies’, I’ll be back in ten minutes, don’t piss off the cranks”, and expect to come out of the toilets just in time to see the Maoists and the Hoxhaists agreeing to throw him out.
you forgot to include the trot calling the sucdem a series of archaic insults in words and sentences that’re both dated to silent generation lingo and all the wordy shit they’ve read from the collective trot library right to their face while pushing them to buy their paper.
also the trot’s either fucking ancient or freshly graduated from highschool
“You people are the reason the left has no unity.” - Guy my dad’s dad’s age. Not a minute later… “Can we interest you in a newspaper?” - Guy who looks 14 and can’t be a day over 19, with a voice squeakier than my kid brother’s. Wearing the same party symbol as the guy who insulted me. “This is why I don’t go to left unity shit anymore. Come on, buddy. Let’s go home and read some theory, you’ll learn more doing that than hanging around here.” - Me, beyond frustrated at this complete waste of my time, to the guy I dragged there.
Fuckin’ Trots. The jokes write themselves. (It is rather funny that the only Trots older than like 20 are old enough to be the younger ones’ grandparents.)
Excellent bit, lol. Might have to try that next time!
“Stalinism” is also a pejorative term wielded by western liberals against anyone who is to the left of Hitler and who actually wants to win instead of being good little western leftists who fetichise bourgeois parliamentarism and insists on losing every single time.
A good way to counter that and scare the hoes would be to call ourselves Stalinists.
I just might do that. I already just say “Yes.” when I’m called a “tankie”… yeah, Soviet tanks are cool! And socialist revolutionaries driving tanks through outdated capitalist power structures is super neat! Hell yeah I’m a fuckin’ tankie! No shame in that!
Stalin made good points, and I think we as leftists can learn a lot from the USSR’s successes! Sure, call me a Stalinist, I think he was right about a lot of stuff!
Congratulations, comrade Lenin would be proud.
Quick note though, communist tanks already did a lot of driving through monarchistic power structures. That’s why we have some semblance of society and you and I are not chained to a wall getting executed by CBT or whatever. Capitalism is a disguise for monarchy. Look into the colleges rich North Americans send their replacements to. Fascism is a tool of monarchy. Liberalism is a tool of fascism.
Socialism is a lot like capitalism but with a strong welfare system that still doesn’t always provide for those who absolutely can’t contribute to society and have no one to take care of them. It, unfortunately, causes it to frequently rely on an unemployment base, like capitalism, except that the unemployed have a guaranteed welfare system under socialism. Because they are still treated like people in a society. Or at least they’re supposed to be. It’s not always easy to think about and put into practice right away. It’s frequently very hard. Probably 1/3rd of the world even understands what a communist is right now. All of this has been derived from communal poverty forced on us by a repugnant, blatantly evil parasite class that absolutely will destroy the world soon if they are not stopped. For us tankie communists in 2025, it’s basically just good enough until the worldwide revolution of the proletariat is fully organized.
We also make the best music btw.
This one is going into The Collection. Thank you.
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Some do, for sure.