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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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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Interesting. Any differences that jump at you in particular? Curious to know what it's like, where they may be coming from.

Edit: typo

[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Iirc a famous streamer in my country was talking about the Maoist movements in the Global South (Japan, India, Türkiye, etc.) and Trotsky denouncing the Trotskyists. And criticized Stalin from the points I wrote in the post. He put that stream behind a paywall, so I can't rewatch it for now.