To be fair, in the recording I linked above, they said at some point the Zoom limit of 100 people was reached and they said they still had people trying to join. Also there were a few younger comrades in the Q@A.

Unfortunately that’s par for the course in Marxist academia. Academic careers take forever and Marxist academia wasn’t really able to reproduce itself since the 90s. The very young aren’t at that level yet, so the pool is just terribly small. Also most younger Marxists have a tendency to somewhat scoff at more academic and scientific education from my experience.

Also, as with all older comrades I’ve met, they’re horrible at playing the new medias due to their age and own experiences. They desperately need younger comrades to get their shit up to the 21st century in terms of marketing, etc.

If de-stalinization following Khrushev’s secret speech marked the beginning of the end of the USSR and therefore the global communist movement, the collective rejection of Krushevism will mark a new beginning, a new period of revolutionary struggle. That leap is coming.

Ngl I’ve been noticing a definitive surge in Pro-Stalin sentiment online and even in academia and communist orgs over the past year. And that is by far one of the most promising signs in the ideological development of current ML: Communists unapologetically, but critically reclaiming the most propagandised parts of their own history. ML can only surge again when we’ve wrestled with and come to terms with Stalin.

Italian workers among the most upright and based people in Europe currently