• h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Hating other socialists is a proud socialist tradition. Look at Marx writing about… literally anyone, or Lenin writing about his contemporaries, or Stalin writing about fellow Bolsheviks, Trotsky writing about anyone including trotskyites, or Bordiga writing about anyone except Hitler and Mussolini,

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      Marx at least had praise for the Paris commune and Lenin, whatever his issues with Luxembourg, still had immense respect for her and sought to collaborate with the German communists, and Stalin lead the greatest transfer of technology in human history in his work with the PRC

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          11 months ago

          I think he meant it like this:

          Marx at least had praise for the Paris commune. And Lenin, whatever his issues with Luxembourg, still had immense respect for her

          And Marx didn’t had just praise for Paris Commune. While criticizing it, he counted it as one of the most important event in history, the first proletarian state ever, and confirmation of his theory.

          Also Lenin was going to Rosa house for 🐈