''"Soviet" Russia was just as imperialist as the US... '' According to Maoists and Trotskyists maybe. According to other communist schools of thought the USSR...
Dear comrades, Only a person or group that lacks any Marxist understanding would call the USSR imperialist. Degenerated, dictatorial and rude, yes, but taking...
Ok. Maoists and certain sections of Trotskyism say the USSR was social imperialist. Other Schools of communism say that the aim of Soviet foreign policy...
trotsky was the one who ordered the crackdown at krondstandt.lenin invented the cheka. the cheka was used to destroy democracy after the revolution. the 1917...
Dear Comrades, For starters: Trotsky never called the USSR state capitalist or even imperialist. Being a Marxist he even fought them where such tendencies...
Trotskyism is a subset school of Marxism. Marxism is a theoretical and philosophical current. An analysis of political economy from the relative perspective of...
Eagitprop- I must say first of all that I find your positions extremely confusing. You support Russian 'Mig diplomacy' as you call it as well as the Cuban...
Alghout the USSR was politically significantly different from the UK,Belgium, Nl and other old pheudal colonial powers, its "no-discussions" request to follow...
It is possible to agree with some aspects of Soviet Foreign policy in the 1970s and to disagree with others. It is possible to agree with some things...
The ''no discussions'' request to follow Marxist-Leninist formulas was negative. It undermined possibilities for the development of socialist democracy. ...
" It is possible to agree with some things Anarchists, Trotskyists and Maoists say and disagree with others." Only in a reductionist way, because the...
It is easy to make up philosophies with no personal experience in issues,internal and external. Bombardment and mass murdering were a very tool to achieve...
So there exist different definitions of socialism, some say it means opublic/collectivised ownership and a section of the left says it is not. I subscribe to...
... and a section of the> left says it is ... What socialism means in Marxist parlance is a phase of communist society with a precise definition given by Marx...
The definition of socialism predates both Marx and Lenin. ''What socialism means in Marxist parlance is a phase of communist society with a precise definition...
... Maoists, Stalinists, and Trotskyists all claim to be Marxists and Leninists, so when they describe a capitalist social structure as socialist their words ...
Dear eagiprof, It seems, segregating the features of an international Soviet expansion is similar to denying the sexist roots of the Carnival in Havana. Have a...
Paid by terrorists, advocate of and adviser to bandits, one misleads public on a core issue which is difference between arranging the Islamists' terror and...
Western analysts and commentators, historians do the inverse. From the perspective on Afghan women who went to University in the USSR , from the perspective of...
Marx's concept of Scientific Socialism is a the anti-thesis to the Utopian Socialist thesis. ''Maoists, Stalinists, and Trotskyists all claim to be Marxists...
Defeat the imperialist invasion - Victory for Iraq The key aspects of the war and revolutionary politics Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo (Socialist...
... No, he wouldn't, because the USSR was simply capitalist and imperialist. By the way, Lenin recognized that "state capitalism" would have been a step...
The Soviet Union was not ''capitalist''.The property forms that characterised its economy where collectivised/publicly owned. Socialism is characterised by...
... If this were true -- that the SU was governed by "the same" economic laws that govern "every other" capitalist economy -- then it needs to be explained how...
... Those "moderate" market reforms, particularly Perestroika, represented an offensive against an already brutalized Russian working class. Hence powerful...
... Like post-Soviet Russia???!! ... So in other words there was no need for a capitalist class in the SU in order for capitalism to become paramount. But this...
I am very happy, that my attitude to a State Secretary is being shared by some European smarties: http://www.witziges.ch/Wi/Daten/HTML/BushIntelligenztest.php...
