So, what is to be done?

So, what is to be done?

1) Stop worshiping the man that ruined everything.
2) Spread propaganda.
3) Shame your political opponents into oblivion.
4) Once enough people are convinced and the economy is shit enough.. REVOLT.

Nothing

Ride the dildo in your armchair. Never leave it.

Stalin did nothing wrong you fucking revisionist

THIS IS WHY NOTHING CAN BE DONE!

read enough decent theory and learn to debate and make propaganda online.

Keep everything Lenin wrote, but scrap what he did in power and most of what other communist regimes that followed. Ending the label Marxism-Leninism would be a good idea too, as its main beneficiary was Stalin as he forged legitimacy for himself.

I wonder if the people who create the right wing propaganda (peepee me-mes) are well-read EMPERICAL FASCISTS who use their vast knowledge of dialectical nationalism to debate amd create successful propaganda.

unironically google murray bookchin

read marx moron

All words that Marx used unironically in his writings and throughout his career he was pro-Poland and Irish self-determination

ayy

what a horrible post

There's absolutely no contradiction between the former and the latter

Look man, I think the man did have good intentions, I really do. But even if the dire situation of revolutionary Russia forced him to go against his principles, it doesn't change the fact that, well, he went against his principles, and left the stage set for a Stalin.

Maybe if he lived long enough to oversee a pacified USSR he could undo these authoritarian measures and deliver on his promises, but alas.

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It was all Stalin's fault. Leave my boy Lenin alone.

I once believed that, and I wish I still did. But I can't ignore that Lenin fucked up badly at some point.

Personally, from my admittedly far-from-expert opinion, he jumped the gun with the October Revolution. He was counting on successful revolutions elsewhere, especially Germany, and well, that turned out to be a bad bet.

Here's an idea, realize that Stalin was neither some evil man hellbent on starving Ukrainians and destroying socialism, nor was he a fantastic nice man who did no wrong and killed no innocents.

To answer the OP, right now my strategy is to read a shit ton and hope I can help when shit really starts hitting the fam. I also spread propaganda online to try and gain hegemony, but that's not terribly productive.

I'm also thinking about seizing control of my local DSA branch, but idk how easy that would be.

New marxist theory for the post modern day. Nothing more nothing less. Im working my ass off on economic studies but its about collective knowledge.

Read 'Revolution at the Gates' or if you're lazy 'The Impending Catastrophe and How To Avoid It' + remebering that proto-Fascists had already tried to take power in June and were 100% going to try to again with the support of the Provisional government and probably wouldn't make the same mistakes.

Tldr had Lenin waited any longer, both famine and Fascism would of taken root in Russia.

I don't know man, thoroughout 1917 the Russian people kept moving leftwards more and more, and a reactionary coup grew more unlikely, Stalling for time would play to the Bolsheviks' membership numbers.

And famine occured a couple of years afterwards, didn't it?

Anyway, I'll add those to the reading list. Jesus, it has so much stuff it's ridiculous, especially now with the cybernetics thread.

DSA really seems like the most viable socialist organization in America since the Panthers (PBUH). Take charge, if only to be sure it won't get infiltrated by liberals and cops (PROTIP you can't keep all cops away).

how's it going Trotsky?

I will be eternally jealous of young Stalin's hair.

That shit is thick.

well hello there investigator

also sage