Hot take: all “tankie” denominations irl are exactly the same way people on the internet say Trotskyists are. In my uni they were Maoists and exactly like this

Looks like art-nouveau

If this was someone like me or people I know, I would say I think this strategy is unlikely to work and it would be better if they went somewhere else to do this, preferably either with people they have some social connection to or in an environment where people go to have fun.

I remember you going all up my last thread tryna poo-poo the last article I posted here to foster some discussion. This combined with my frustration with the kinda positions that are allowed here without much pushback vs the ones that aren’t (ML, Titoist, Maoist, Socialist of the 21st century, Dengist, Anarchist, liberal, completely illiterate? A-OK, no contradiction whatsoever! Left unity! Leftcom, Trot, Stupidpol? Angry emoji) might have made me jump the gun a bit. Sorry about that.

This might be wrong, but I remember Trotsky at some point bringing up that Russia was in the Asiatic state of production at some point, saying it was like China where the power is more centralized in the figure of the sovereign who delegates to handpicked provincial governors instead of local power having local sovereignty like in Western Europe. Regardless, I think there is something to be said about China and Russia being alike one another and unlike the West at that point in history.

Sounds like an alright answer to me, although you would think China and Russia would be more like the Asiatic mode of production.

Excuse me for having more than one neuron and knowing what leftcoms think.

This person would say that the Soviet Union and China didn’t abolish commodity production in favor of production regulated by the criterion of use-value, which according to Marx is what characterizes the transition from capitalism to socialism.

Posting an article that echoes a narrative I have observed on Twitter, just to see what people think.

Inb4 “OMG this article is so Sinophobic, it takes all sorts of things about modern China and makes them look worse than they are” - I knooooow. Try to shrug that off if you can.

I don’t know about Bolivia, but it seems like what they did in Nicaragua according to that video you posted can’t be what American progressives mean when they say land back though, since America already has autonomous regions for Indians just like Nicaragua. That’s not even bringing up the fact that Miskito are a former British colony, are closer to Anglos and have a different culture from the Nicaraguans, meaning they need different schools that teach in English instead of Spanish and all sorts of other differentiated infrastructure that American Indians don’t i.e. there’s a different possible interpretation of “autonomous” more akin to China’s autonomous regions.