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What Is The Deal With Trotskyism And Maoism? (lemmygrad.ml)
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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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[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the result of the CIA funding.

Western "Marxists" are permitted to support socialist victims but not socialism when it is successful and strong. What these groups are trying to do is be palatable to the socially conscious while not threatening the western empire. They exist to soothe the conscience of the class aware by allowing them to think socialist™ thoughts while not doing socialist actions. They demonize the USSR and PRC because life under socialism must be believed to be suffering and a lost cause.

So the CIA funded and boosted "thinkers" and organizations that promoted these ideas while repressing all other Marxist thinkers and groups.

[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they are the first in line for the purge, right?

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

No just the leadership. The rank and file members are just misled and propagandized. Most of them should be easy to reeducate because the core issue of the injustice of capitalism is already there.