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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your memes are the backbone of the online communist community at this point.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The ones I shared on r/ChapoTrapHouse in 2019, like this and the space race one, are by far the most proliferated. The reach of that sub explains why the feds had to shut it down.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Imagine a bunch of shitposters scaring the shit out of the feds. This year they have already nuked 3 more communist subreddits.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your service

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your service comrade

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Inb4 "tWo ThInGs CaN bE bad At OnCe" from someone comparing something real the empire is doing with a story that same empire told them about someone else.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This meme is old. Now it's 25%

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago
[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because anyone else would have let the USSR capitulate to the wehrmacht invasion.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

They're a power mod on their instance too

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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

stops at berlin
"I think they learned their lesson..."

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny that this is the exact same "logic" the libs use to try to defend running a pro-zionist, pro-corporate, pro-billionaire slimeball in the last US presidential election - "But Trump was worse!"

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

It's not just a matter of the US being worse, this undermines the credibility of every single accusation regarding human rights that the US makes about any other country

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Stalin wasn't a saint, but he is overly demonized as compared to his peers. There has been a century of anticommunist mud-slinging at him, and now that the soviet archives are somewhat open, we can begin to actually judge him properly. Unlike Trump, Stalin was the leader of the world's first socialist state, and a good portion of soviet success in their earlier years can be attributed to policies he pushed for.

Demystifying Stalin

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

  • J. V. Stalin
  1. Nia Frome's "Tankies"

[8 min]

  1. W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin

[6 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat

[30 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History

[16 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by H. G. Wells

[42 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Emil Ludwig

[38 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Roy Howard

[9 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

[5 hr 51 min]

  1. Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin

[5 hr 25 min]

  1. Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World

Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

  • Che Guevara
  1. Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

  2. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

  3. History of the CPSU (B)

  4. The Foundations of Leninism

  5. Marxism and the National Question

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