William Z. Foster also spat in Khruschev’s face on his death bed.

Khruschev never attended his funeral in Moscow after that.

  • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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    -11 year ago

    This has nothing to do with success or failure.

    • @Lemmy_Mouse
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      31 year ago

      I didn’t hear any criticisms from you, this implies success…so where is it?

      • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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        11 year ago

        The New Deal, many social safety nets, and intervention in World War II on the side of the Soviet Union.

        • @Lemmy_Mouse
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          1 year ago

          Yeah they did a great job securing capitalism with social reforms, I’ll give them that. (Checks) yep, these chains are pretty tight. Good on them.

          EDIT: Actually, that is giving them too much credit. The chains are now loose, they couldn’t even do that right.

          • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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            01 year ago

            They did not. It developed the struggle to a new level.

            • @Lemmy_Mouse
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              21 year ago

              Everything you just named were social reforms. The level it brought us to was the 1960s and 70s. Hippies and Maoist adventurists. Nonsense running amuck. And for what? Look at today. Neoliberalism emerged from the corpse of social democracy, eating what remained and reverting the capitalist system back to the 1800s imperial era. This is the failure of the CPUSA first and foremost as if it were not for them, such clowns as the New Left never would have generated a crowd. They would have stayed with the hypothetical competent CPUSA.

              • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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                21 year ago

                Social reforms which were won with blood, sweat, and tears. Neoliberalism emerged from the 1950s Red Scare.

                A Communist Party is supposed to fight for certain victories on the road to revolution; this is what they did.

                • @Lemmy_Mouse
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                  21 year ago

                  I agree. They wasted our blood, sweat, and tears for false promises. Neoliberalism emerged from social democracy. Stagflation caused by the social reforms and the ever lowering rate of profit to create a crisis within capital. With the bourgeois still in power, and the working class weaker than ever thanks to the failure of the CPUSA the natural dialectical process led them to abandoning social reformation and pursuing endless profits as this is within their interests and capability. To believe a social policy brought on an economic change shows a profound lack of understanding of Marxist theory.

                  • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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                    -11 year ago

                    Neoliberalism emerged from anti-communism and the 1970s stagflation crisis as well. The social reforms were the only thing blocking the stagflation.