State and Revolution reads like a Twitter thread. The whole book. It could’ve been posted by any online leftist in its entirety and fit right in.
Call-outs of his contemporaries basically calling them libs, scare quotes galore, referring to social democrats as “social chauvinists” every time he brings them up, references to previous posts. Lenin really was one of the OG posters.
RIP Lenin you would’ve loved Maoist Standard English
“Amerikkka is the epitome of dekkkadence and it’s social chauvinist “left” is no different! I will now be deconstructing the arguments of one ‘BigDaddy69’ in explicit detail!”
State and Revolution reads like a Twitter thread. The whole book. It could’ve been posted by any online leftist in its entirety and fit right in.
Call-outs of his contemporaries basically calling them libs, scare quotes galore, referring to social democrats as “social chauvinists” every time he brings them up, references to previous posts. Lenin really was one of the OG posters.
RIP Lenin you would’ve loved Maoist Standard English
Me when I’m in a Kautsky hating contest and my opponent is Lenin
“Amerikkka is the epitome of dekkkadence and it’s social chauvinist “left” is no different! I will now be deconstructing the arguments of one ‘BigDaddy69’ in explicit detail!”
This is unironically exactly what State and Revolution is. Including BigDaddy69, because all of these people were using
screenpen names!my favorite is “present-day “Social-Democrat” (i.e., present-day traitor to socialism)” He’s just so sassy.