• zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    People here will dismiss all post-soviet communist parties as “nostalgic boomers” but then tell us to join CPUSA lmao. Why is it OK for us to have imperfect revisionist parties we need to whip into shape, but not for other nations to? Why is the pro-DNC revisionism more acceptable than the pro-Putin revisionism when the DNC is actually a more fascist, genocidal, neoliberal and imperialist body than Putin’s administration?

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      Russian politics were literally cursed by a witch. If you talk about them you will wither away to a tiny locust by the age of 80 and die from being vored by a crow.

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        Just seems like the “russia bad” veneer is very effective among westerners still, and everything Russian is automatically downgraded one level of “basedness” in their minds. An extremely disciplined, successful and principled communist party would be seen as mid. A mid revisionist party would be seen as evil. Whereas in the USA, the mid revisionist parties all get the benefit of the doubt and are not considered evil nazbols automatically.

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          Whereas in the USA, the mid revisionist parties all get the benefit of the doubt and are not considered evil nazbols automatically.

          If you’re still referring to the CPUSA, most people around here seem to take a pretty dim view of them, at best, so idk how much “benefit of the doubt” they’re getting.

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          Well I’m not an actual HEXbearer so I couldn’t tell you but it should be proportional to your engagement with the discourse. I advise you to talk about the Russian communists as much as possible to expedite things.

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      CPUSA is controlled by feds and should not be joined, but let’s not pretend aesthetic communism doesn’t hold its capital in Russia (if someone says China istg), though simultaneously it is also more populated by real communists than many other states and this guy specifically seems pretty decent.

      We’ve got like one prominent poster who is CPUSA and the rules unfortunately dictate being nice to them (I forget their preferred pronouns) for some reason, but don’t mistake that for anyone else liking CPUSA. Most people here seem to dislike PCUSA and it’s still distinctly more credible than its forebear.