I just imagine this is what Western Commies must have felt regarding the USSR's founding and takeover of Communist thought. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by marxisthayaca@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Western Imperialist Commies: "Laddie dah, we are so progressive, we demand the rights of all people!"

Actual communist country exists and starts doing communist things

Western Commies: REVISIONISTS, GENOCIDAIRES, EEEVIIIILLL

Hexbear holds a mirror and a path to other "progressive" instances who up to these point, felt like they were the biggest game in town.

It'll be funny when the admins arrive to the "Socialism in One Country" Doctrine.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

If you want to know what the response was like from Western pro-imperialist "socialists"/soc-dem types, look no further than the interview between H.G. Wells and Stalin:

"It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr. Stalin; I think the old system is nearer to its end than you think."

(Narrated version with commentary courtesy of Socialism For All, if you prefer it being read to you)

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

H.G. Wells literally wrote a novel about the class divide being so severe it turned humanity into two entirely different species in the distant future.

I love the atmosphere of his novels, but he was an archetypal "left-lib" sort. Even lowkey defending colonialism in one of his books because it "educated the natives."