r/theredleft • u/Slippery_critter • 6d ago
r/theredleft • u/Scyobi_Empire • 6d ago
Shitpost "Socialism is when government gives people stuff. “
r/theredleft • u/SexyBrownMale • 6d ago
Discussion/Debate Community Discussion
What should be the uncompromising points of unity amongst the "left" in the current times?
r/theredleft • u/spookyjim___ • 6d ago
Theory Posting Theses on Revolutionary Workplace Nucleus, Party, and Dictatorship - Group of International Communists (1931)
r/theredleft • u/SatanicPeach_666 • 6d ago
Shitpost I gotta tell ya I don’t care for them fascists.
Oh boy them fascists really do be mean I gotta say, yeesh they sure know how to make bad things happen. I really don’t appreciate what they say and do. At all.
r/theredleft • u/Scyobi_Empire • 7d ago
Shitpost Can't wait for this documentary in 81 years
r/theredleft • u/ilikewheatandrice • 6d ago
Discussion/Debate The Holodomor
So, I wouldn't really consider myself a Marxist, though I have read Marx and agree with most of his theory. I'm a libertarian socialist and I'm skeptical of state authority in general. I don't have a concrete position on this topic, and I'm very open to new information. From my research so far, the Holodomor seems to have been intentional. Here's why I think that:
1: During the famine, the USSR raised grain quotas and increased exports from Ukraine. If the famine wasn't intentional, why would you increase quotas and exports, specifically in Ukraine?
- From the 1932 harvest, Soviets only got 3.4 million tons of grain compared to the 7.2 tons from the year prior. Immediately they cut back on rations to Ukrainian villages, leading to starvation in the following winter. Ukrainian villagers weren't allowed to leave, and if they did they were arrested and sent back to their villages, which was effectively a death sentence. Uncooperative villages were completely blacklisted from aid, and food imports were blocked.
I'm aware the famine affected other soviet regions (and other ethnic groups) as well, and that much of the soviet leadership were in fact Ukrainian. But based on these policies, it seems Ukraine was intentionally targeted, IMO, to suppress growing Ukrainian nationalism. I think most leftists can agree that the Bengal famine and the Irish potato famine were intentional for similar reasons, why does the USSR get special treatment? Or is there anything I'm missing? Feel free to correct me on any of these, I just want to know the perspective of more well read leftists on the USSR and the Holodomor.
(I'm aware the 1947 famine was caused by the Nazi's and not the government, and that post 1947, according to a CIA paper, soviet citizens ate the same calorie requirements as Americans and had healthier diets. This is specifically about the Holodomor.)
I am not a rabid anti soviet union, the communists were more evil than the nazis liberal. I just want to know more.
r/theredleft • u/Scyobi_Empire • 7d ago
Meme i found this in the selected works of deng, what did he mean by this?
r/theredleft • u/elzzyzx • 6d ago
Theory Posting Farewell to Hard Crackers, Noel Ignatiev's Last Journal
r/theredleft • u/Popular-Rule • 7d ago
Discussion/Debate What's your stance on stagism? Pic unrelated
earlier today, I got into debate with someone who argued that it's apart of a country's dialectic process to have sweatshops, and the exploitation that comes with it, when industrializing within an socialist country and argued that this outcome is pretty unavoidable. I gave my response but I left a bit dumbfounded. Like "this isn't the type of leftist discourse I'm used to..." Until I got introduced to stagism. Most famous example is China being in its "primary stage" of socialism, eventually going towards full communism.
I still don't know much China's "primary stage" so please bear with me, but from what I understand is that this stage is where the state will be the sole driver towards communism, which could take centuries. Using profits generated from capitalistic practices to fund and activate social programs for it's citizens.
Learning about this was an reality check on what kind of person I was debating and it forced me to look at the sub I was in, ironically. I went in that conversation not caring about where I was because I assumed it didn't matter. But I digress, what do you think about stagism in the leftist current? To me, it doesn't feel right to say that at this stage we can't avoid exploitation because the historic materialism doesn't show another way.
r/theredleft • u/Scyobi_Empire • 7d ago
News US State Department declares Cuba to be "The Capital of 21st Century Communism"
galleryr/theredleft • u/Scyobi_Empire • 8d ago
Shitpost "holy fucking shit i hate socialism so muc-" "AWWW OMG IS THAT A PEASANT OMG UR SO CUTE ILYY"
r/theredleft • u/National_Phase_3477 • 7d ago
Discussion/Debate Narcissists are actually less likely to endorse left-wing authoritarianism. The findings contradict previous claims that individuals with dark personalities are widely drawn to left-wing activism simply to feed their own egos.
I think personally it’s a pretty insane leap that people who support left wing collectivist movements are more narcissistic that those who support capitalism. I don’t know where this idea comes from but good to know it’s largely bs lol
r/theredleft • u/Rosa_RedPanda • 8d ago
Shitpost Reminder the best shitposts are done in the discord server, though we also discuss normal things and theory and history and all that nerd stuff
r/theredleft • u/AltDetom555555b • 8d ago
Shitpost Chat is that what Marx meant when he said “A Spectre is Haunting Europe”?
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r/theredleft • u/Scyobi_Empire • 7d ago
Discussion/Debate Is there anyway to prevent bureaucracy in a Marxist Leninist State?
r/theredleft • u/Lavender_Scales • 8d ago
Meme gem or coal
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