#cpsu

[tomorrowusa]

« One thing that I think everybody understands is that you can't have – you can't be America first and pro-Russia, because Russia is a self-declared adversary of the United States. »

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH-10) at CBS's "Face The Nation" on Sunday.

Unfortunately, the leader of Rep. Turner's party doesn't seem to understand this.

Trump may have a picture of Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office, but Reagan would retch if he knew how The Orange One fawns over the Evil Empire. Reagan said this about the USSR at his first press conference as president in 1981.

It almost sounds like he's talking about current MAGA. 💡

Putin was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the USSR and a lieutenant colonel in the KGB – the Soviet secret police. Trump calls political rivals "communists" but he has no trouble acting as a lap dog for a real communist – Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

Russia today is a police state which invades neighbors to carry out the imperialist aspirations of its dictator. It's about as un-American as it gets. And pandering to Russian interests is downright treasonous.

[socialismforall]

Trotskyists Expelled! | The Fifteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (1927) Stalin. Marxist Audiobook

[soft-sunbird]

Conversation with my boss went well this morning. My main takeaway was that he said I had to be a member of a union to participate in a strike - thankfully, I was able to reply "I am".

I'm glad the UN voted in favour of a ceasefire, and I'm sure my individual strike had nothing to do with informing Australia's decision, but I do feel calm and confident that I made the right choice in that the time off work allowed me to charge/recharge with the right energy to complete the remainder of my week with peace and zen.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

USSR at 100: Lessons of the Soviet of Nationalities

Dec. 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, the first attempt in history to build a multinational socialist society.

By Sam Marcy 

If it is true that the construction of a socialist society is impossible without a planned economy, it is equally true that a planned economy is impossible in a multinational country without the equality of all the nations and their free, voluntary association within the framework of a union of all the socialist republics. It was precisely to this question that Lenin devoted the last days of his life. How could the interests of a planned economy be reconciled with the apparently contradictory need for the equality of all the nationalities in the USSR? What kind of a state structure should be developed to give full vent to the workers and peasants and conform to the revolutionary reconstitution of Soviet society as it emerged from the overthrow of the czarist autocracy and the sweeping away of the bourgeoisie and the landlords?

[green-ann]

Some Izvestia newspapers from 1986 that covered the Chernobyl accident

@elenatria @litttlesilkworm @connihd @the-jewish-marxist @progressi9 @chernobylgal86 @johnlockismyreligion

[daring-youth]

“People and the Party Are Undivided”

M. V. Luk’janov and V.S. Karakashev, 1978

[timoroustomahawk-blog]

Calami Pilaku Status Update!

+1 Moirail (Elwurd)! Nothing better than filling one of those quadrants, heck yeah!

+9 lbs! Maybe you still don’t have what could be considered a ‘healthy’ appetite, but it’s better than what you’ve been doing before!

+1 set of claw scars! Thanks, cobragar! Or, was it cougabra?

+ Knowledge: Cooking! It’s always great to break out of the mold you’ve formed for yourself by only baking! 

+ Knowledge: Multiverse! Cheese and rice, there’s so much that you were unaware of! There’s so much you’re still unaware of! 

+ Appreciation: Pizza! Perhaps not the healthiest thing to be appreciating!

+ Appreciation: Donuts! Likewise!

+ A Whole Bunch Of Acquaintances! Heck yeah! It might be a big multiverse, but there’s definitely a whole bunch of friendly individuals scuttling around!

- Clothes Comfort! Your shorts are starting to be a little uncomfortable, due to the weight you’ve put on a bit recently! Maybe it’s time to look for new clothes soon!

[seafood-disco]

“At the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU, Khrushchev uncovered what people deemed were the “atrocities” of Stalin in the CPSU, particularly those made while handling the relationship with other communist parties. “Proletariat’s great leader” had become a Fascist tyrant overnight. The nonscientific and simplified attitude towards Stalin quickly produced a tendency towards “non-Stalinization” [десталинизация; ‘de-stalinization’]. Communist parties of other countries and Leftists felt amazed at this--a great Marxist immediately changed into a Hitler-like tyrant without any humanity. During this sudden and violent rupture, people not only mistrusted Stalin, but they also began to doubt Marxism. Quite abruptly, the beliefs of many adherents fell into disorder. People “impute all our disappointments, all our mistakes and all our disarray in whatever domain, to Stalin, along with his crimes and errors” [Althusser, For Marx]. The key to this lies in the critique of Stalin and the CPSU in their specific historical context. More specifically, the critique was a mistaken humanistic, inversed interpretation that ascribed the errors of the Soviet Union to Marxist theory. [...] [P]eople blamed Stalin for his cruelty towards humanity. Thus, people concluded that it was necessary to restore the humanistic essence of Marxism that had been lost” 

-Zhang Yibing, Althusser Revisited: problematic, symptomatic reading, ISA and history of marxism - a textological reading