lewbronstein

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19 years old. Marxist from Bremen, Germany.
Happy to discuss about socialism, marxism and revolution.
lewbronsteinJul 18, 2018

How The Buerocracy Took Power

"We republish the first part of a pamphlet (first released in 1987, during the twilight of the Soviet regime), which serves as an invaluable introduction to the events from the October Revolution to the rise of Stalinism in Russia ‒ from which innumerable lessons can be drawn for the class struggle today."

https://www.bolshevik.info/russia-how-the-bureaucracy-seized-power-part-one-the-russian-working-class-takes-power.htm

#marxism #socialism #stalinism #ussr

Russia: How the Bureaucracy Seized Power ‒ Part one: The Russian working-class takes power

We republish the first part of a pamphlet (first released in 1987, during the twilight of the Soviet regime), which serves as an invaluable introduction to the events from the October Revolution to the rise of Stalinism in Russia ‒ from which innumerable

lewbronsteinJul 18, 2018

“Our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really believe that.” The judgement of President Donald J. Trump delivered from the heights of Helsinki followed hard on the heels of his first summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin. If anything, it was even more bizarre than his visits to the NATO summit and the United Kingdom a few days ago. And it made even bigger waves.

https://www.marxist.com/trump-meets-putin-what-does-it-mean.htm

#marxism #socialism #trump

Trump meets Putin: the world turned upside down

“Our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really believe that.” The judgement of President Donald J. Trump delivered from the heights of Helsinki followed hard on the heels of his first summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin. If anything, it was even more bizarre than his visits to the NATO summit and the United Kingdom a few days ago. And it made even bigger waves.

Show threadlewbronsteinJul 18, 2018
@hhardy01
For further reading I would like to recoomend Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/ch04.htm
Leon Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism (Chapter 4)

Leon Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism (4. Terrorism)

Show threadlewbronsteinJul 18, 2018
@hhardy01
Yes, but Latsis was still wrong with what he said in this quote.
But Latsis became quite quickly a Stalinist...
Either way, it is simply not true that the Cheka just murdered every one with a better education or something...
Also I would like to read the whole context of the quote.
lewbronsteinJul 17, 2018

On 21st January 1924, Vladimir #Lenin died from complications arising from an earlier assassin’s bullet. Ever since then there has been a sustained campaign to slander his name and distort his ideas, ranging from bourgeois historians and apologists to various reformists, liberals and assorted anarchists. Their task has been to discredit Lenin, #Marxism and the Russian #Revolution in the interests of the “democratic” rule of bankers and capitalists.

https://www.bolshevik.info/in-defence-of-lenin.htm

In Defence of Lenin

Ninety years ago, on 21st January 1924, Vladimir Lenin, the great Marxist and leader of the Russian Revolution, died from complications arising from an earlier assassin’s bullet. Ever since then there has been a sustained campaign to slander his name and

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@hhardy01
[4] It is simply not true that the "brutal Bolsheviks" killed everyone who did not agree. The Red Terror was the successfull attempt to defend the Revolution and its achievements against the White Terror...

The quote by this guy is still stupid and it is not an adequate description, cause if it would have been like that many red army officers would have been killed. Even Lenin lol

Show threadlewbronsteinJul 17, 2018
@hhardy01
[3]
You also need to distinguish between the struggle against kulajs who used the chaos of civil war to get back their former property and the senseless kulak liquidation by Stalin in the 30s after years in which Stalin litterally supported the growing of the kulak class.
In many cases where the Whites occupied territory, they massacred the former landless peasents who profited from the land distribution. This was a question of class.
Show threadlewbronsteinJul 17, 2018
@hhardy01
[2] The White Army, from the beginning on, massacred thousends of Revolutionaries, Bolscheviks, workers who stood for societ power, jews, and many more. The White Army was not much more than a hord of roaming fascists. The choice was not between soviet power or liberal bourgeoir democracy, but between soviet power and Russian fascism.
Show threadlewbronsteinJul 17, 2018
@hhardy01
[1] I never doubt that the Red Terror existed, quite contrary. But I think it was an unpleasent nessessity, I agree with Trotsky's position mentioned in the article.
You need to realise the situation in which the revolution found itself in: After four years of WWI it had not only to face the white counter revolution, but also 21 armies of foreign intervention. And in this context, the Red Terror was an adequate and nessessary answer to the White Terror.
Show threadlewbronsteinJul 15, 2018
@vroom i felt it was nessessary