Well it’s from the same website you previously read and commented with the comment “good article” here https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3666

Marxism is a ruthless critique of all that exists and a documented approach of how supposedly marxist organisations have behaved in previous class and world proletarian conflicts is in my view completely in line with rule 5

Anarchobolshevik claims “clumsy analysis” by the trots to which I would respond "either the trots don’t know what they’re talking about in which case they’re producing nothing but confusion.

Or they do know and betraying the worlds proletariat by siding with imperialism.

In either case they serve reaction."

Lemmy is too small right now so I get you’re trying to appeal to as broadly as the left as possible which I would say is a mistake because reddit is for the masses (and always will be given its size) and raddle is for radlibs and anarchists - why allow them here?

Anyway all the best with Lemmy I hope it gets bigger but I will bow out until this place is a decent place for Marxists and until you purge that shitlib anarchobullshit mod from a frigging communist sub

You wanted to argue that the clumsy analyses are somehow a structural failure of Trotskyism (otherwise the author wouldn’t repeatedly emphasize the terminology), and I gave you a counterexample.

You picked a fringe trot group literally no one has heard of

Hundreds of leftoids exhibit this, including many MLs.

Would be genuinely interested in learning about ML groups that haven’t gone off the deep end into revisionism that clang for imperialism.

LEL

fair enough lol I’m not bothered

I had a quick look at raddle and that’s run by a bunch of whiny anarchists. Turns out here is too. All the best

they subconsciously hate Gaddafi more than NATO

For every trot group that likes Ghadaffi I can show you a dozen that hate them. same for DPRK.

And Trotskyist Platform don’t represent the Trotskyist movement. If we’re gonna pick a trot org that does it would CWI who are very active in Aus as well. One of which was criticised here

If criticisms must be made, make them in a principled manner, applying Marxist analysis.

Seems principled enough in a marxist analysis tbh

100% this.

In discussing the poll about Romania here (in fact it’s two polls by two different research companies(1)) which display an outright majority of Romanians saying in 2010 and 2015 that life was better under socialism I had someone respond to me saying that it wasn’t true and his friend laughed so hard when Ceaucescu was shot

He proceeded to tell me people who spoke Hungarian were executed so I pointed out that Russian, Hungarian and Ukrainian were recognised languages in Romania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania

I laughed then asked this guy if his friend was an emigree

To which he said yes, to the US into the tech industry and it’s always the same story lol

I then supplied the link with the polls and he said “it’s only a poll of 1000 in a country of 22 million” to which I pointed out 1000 is the gold standard and provides only a margin of error of 2.2

If you were to poll 10,000 for instance you only bring the margin of error down to 1.0

It is funny seeing shitlibs become as brainwashed as they think communists are and the mental gymnastics they have to do daily to defend this fuckin awful system

(1) https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/communist-nostalgia-in-romania/

(2) https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/references/sample-size-surveys