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What Is The Deal With Trotskyism And Maoism? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Edit: I'm from the Global South, I should've clarified that on the post. The lesson has been learned.

Many leftist movements, legit or not, call themselves either Trotskyist or Maoist and keep dissing Stalin for his “socialism in one state” policy and “ruining” Comintern and Deng Xiaoping for his “liberal” policies.

I want to know what they are trying to do by distancing themselves from the USSR and PRC while fetishizing Cuba and Vietnam—you'll only hear them talking about the Vietnam War, btw—and following either the guy who lost the power struggle or a literal Marxist-Leninist who supported one of the refused countries and founding the other.

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[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

yeah, often there does seem to be a belief that if you have a strong enough party line you can skip some of the hard work of actually building socialism. you can't just skip to the good part. the struggle is what makes socialism happen, and that's always going to be messy.