He was on some broad anti-asian shit at this time in 1940. But he did come around.
Just don’t look into what he did to his wife
He was on some broad anti-asian shit at this time in 1940. But he did come around.
Just don’t look into what he did to his wife
Tankies and far right in our current settings.
Tankies are far right.
That’s that original definition of Left and Right as political terms, the one Marx eventually worked from.
The Left was always pro democracy, and the Right pro monarchy.
Marx and Engels came to communism through the rise of European democracy.
Lenin came to power via coup and secret police arresting and murdering the Socialist Revolutionaries.
Tankies worship Lenin and his “vanguard parties” which are just dictatorships, a new Nobility. Leaving the workers just as oppressed as before.
Actual communism is the workers in control of the factories and economy, and the only way to manage that is via a functional democracy. Something that capitalists and fake communists fight against tooth and nail.
Not to mention the assistance of Germany in helping him return to Russia.
Lol imagine being a tankie, being so far left in the mind, that you actually support right wing.
I never thought about it this way and I am glad I was able to read your elaboration. In my narrow minded head, I categorized tankies, marx, lenin, communism as left wing extremism, while it is actually the opposite.
So right wingers fighting communism is basically a right vs right situation, where both want to achieve powers in a non-democratic way? Ok my brain hurts now and I need to think about it for a while.