I think the key takeaway is: You can’t export the revolution.
Its like how a butterfly needs the struggle of fighting its way out of its cocoon or how you should never help a chick hatch out of an egg. If you don’t have a home baked revolution the counter revolution is more insidious and has to wait until it is assured of success. The whites need to think they can win so that they pit themselves against the popular will. This galvanizes the entire population and also purges all the hard core whites leaving only the cowards who won’t fight for their beliefs.
It was an almost unavoidable mistake. WW2 forced the red army to fight for every inch of eastern europe. They killed so many fascists that it seemed unlikely that there were any left. Because the red army was so powerful the counter revolutionaries had the sense to just go underground and fester.
I’ve been thinking for some time how the global West always fear mongers about socialism, especially communists, and how when the slightly less wealthy liberals in power inevitably have managed to find themselves in danger of autophagy of naked fascism (rather than organza-clad), we turn to communists to bail our collective arse out of the dilemma which we happily march into, then seem shocked 🙀 and loudly wail about it. The trouble with this particular iteration now is that the anti - red propaganda has been so relentlessly and so much more ridiculously pounded, the libs are celebrating that Tea Party politicians of the US are changing their party affiliation to D, and looking for a win. It’s horrifying and immensely fascinating that they confidently assert that there’s never been a “successful” communist government (also confidently declaring social democracy successful examples of socialism sans communism, and I’m not far distant from that time in my own understanding, myself), while refusing to look at US sabatoge of the examples they point to or ignore places that inconveniently prove them wrong, while also refusing to see there’s never in history of any government that was capitalist successfully avoiding an attempt at naked fascism for more than 80 years at a time.
I don’t think this bodes well for the world at large, and with current alarming developments in technology and the way it’s being used, it makes successful revolution extremely difficult, and global MAD looms larger. I’m not into doomerism either, but kicking this can farther down the road isn’t what I’d hoped to see.
Yup, exporting revolution would be only viable if communism was already the hegemonic ideology. And to make it the hegemonic ideology, it’s best to lead by example like China does, prove that communism is superior. Material reality trumps all propaganda.
I think the key takeaway is: You can’t export the revolution.
Its like how a butterfly needs the struggle of fighting its way out of its cocoon or how you should never help a chick hatch out of an egg. If you don’t have a home baked revolution the counter revolution is more insidious and has to wait until it is assured of success. The whites need to think they can win so that they pit themselves against the popular will. This galvanizes the entire population and also purges all the hard core whites leaving only the cowards who won’t fight for their beliefs.
It was an almost unavoidable mistake. WW2 forced the red army to fight for every inch of eastern europe. They killed so many fascists that it seemed unlikely that there were any left. Because the red army was so powerful the counter revolutionaries had the sense to just go underground and fester.
I’ve been thinking for some time how the global West always fear mongers about socialism, especially communists, and how when the slightly less wealthy liberals in power inevitably have managed to find themselves in danger of autophagy of naked fascism (rather than organza-clad), we turn to communists to bail our collective arse out of the dilemma which we happily march into, then seem shocked 🙀 and loudly wail about it. The trouble with this particular iteration now is that the anti - red propaganda has been so relentlessly and so much more ridiculously pounded, the libs are celebrating that Tea Party politicians of the US are changing their party affiliation to D, and looking for a win. It’s horrifying and immensely fascinating that they confidently assert that there’s never been a “successful” communist government (also confidently declaring social democracy successful examples of socialism sans communism, and I’m not far distant from that time in my own understanding, myself), while refusing to look at US sabatoge of the examples they point to or ignore places that inconveniently prove them wrong, while also refusing to see there’s never in history of any government that was capitalist successfully avoiding an attempt at naked fascism for more than 80 years at a time.
I don’t think this bodes well for the world at large, and with current alarming developments in technology and the way it’s being used, it makes successful revolution extremely difficult, and global MAD looms larger. I’m not into doomerism either, but kicking this can farther down the road isn’t what I’d hoped to see.
Yup, exporting revolution would be only viable if communism was already the hegemonic ideology. And to make it the hegemonic ideology, it’s best to lead by example like China does, prove that communism is superior. Material reality trumps all propaganda.
Do you think my tankie friends will accept me when I come out of the closet as a Dengist?
if they’re westerners, you’re cooked.