for some reason, stalin is tendency on twitter: people talking about the past, the need of marxism-leninism, how we need more dudes like him and vacations in the soviet union
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.
The 35 year slumber of the worldwide communist movement is coming to an end.
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.
Eurasianism is fascist ideology fyi. That pf symbol in the first screenshot. Dugin is an example.
even more dictatorship than there is now in Russia
Criminal charges brought against people for internet posts in 2017:
UK: 1,696[^1] (population 69 million)
Russia: 411[^1] (population 144 million)
[^1]: This hilarious source tries to claim the opposite is true because "muh freedom index!"
Isn't this evidence that the UK is a ridiculous police state rather than evidence that Russia isn't a dictatorship?
It's evidence that that the term "dictatorship" (like "authoritarian") as used in the West has no material basis and is simply used to slander state enemies, because the word is never applied to Western countries.
Dictatorship is typically used by liberals to mean that a country doesn't have elections, or that they are ruled by a leader without popular support.^[Russia is also no more a dictatorship than the UK by this definition, as can be seen by comparing approval ratings] But in this context, this person is using it to mean "screw tightening", which I interpreted as state repression, i.e. the qualities of a police state.
I put up the numbers as evidence that Russia is no more a police state than the UK. I don't really mind if people call both or neither countries a dictatorship.
What's with the people in swimwear
Yeah, that's really weird. I thought all Soviet women were ugly old grandmas until magically changing into super models the exact second Capitalism took over.
Goon corner
I like how this image is 2 based political tweet then a random photo of a guy with 2 attractive ladies. It got me really confused until I read "vacations in the Soviet Union".
Anyway, if this really is a legitimate trend on twitter it's cool.
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