By that I mean I remember liking both writings, though admittedly its been a long time since I’ve read either (especially the latter), and perhaps I’d be able to see the issues with them now that I have a more firm grasp of theory.

I take back what I said about the latter being a banger, I have re-read the Grand Alibi, and though initially I liked it because it gave a materialist analysis of the holocaust, I now see that it’s overly mechanistic and practically ignores the superstructure. That being said, the critique from Mitchell Abidor leaves much to offer, what does this critic propose instead as the material basis for the holocaust and German anti-semitism?

I’ve read Bordiga’s Report on Fascism and Auschwitz or the Grand Alibi, I thought they were bangers.

I’ve also read his Dialogue with Stalin and I remember thinking it was disingenuous. Bordiga does indeed have some good writings, but by and large I do believe he is a dogmatist and even more so a commandist. I have no interested in reading Mattick, Pannekoek, or any of the Dutch-German Leftcoms, but nevertheless I am always open to reading recommendations.

I didn’t expect this to gain so much traction tbh.

I suggest any non-communists to just turn a blind eye to this post and its comments, its just going to read like insane people talk and its not going to lead to anything productive imo.

That being said, I don’t agree with the Stalin administration’s deportation policies, and many of their policies as a matter of fact. But Kulaks were not a race or anything of that sort, they were a class of wealthier peasants and in class war there can be excessive violence of that sort. Additionally, most gulag deaths happened in the second world war, when supply chains broke causing many to starve.

There are numbers that are just straight up pulled out of a magicians hat too, like if you’ve ever heard of the 60 million deaths figure, that’s just baseless. Even the 20 million deaths estimate counted German soldiers as well as soviet casualties as if Stalin was the one who killed them and not Hitler.

These horror stories of Stalin are an incredibly effective way of keeping people from the class struggle, because if it leads to a genocidal dystopia every time, may as well just accept the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, may as well let wage slavery continue knowing that the alternative is hell incarnate on earth.

99% of adventurists quit right before they achieve proletarian revolution

anarchist W because supply chains are authoritarian they let us have all the supplies

I notice a peculiar phenomena where some leftists will agree with base and superstructure theory as well as nod along at the quote “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas” but for some reason they don’t consistently apply them.

Needless to say, the dominant press is the bourgeois press. The dominant historiography is bourgeois historiography. Hell, even the dominant Marxism is an impotent bourgeois Marxism.

Some leftist want to look ‘reasonable’, but in this epoch it’s a choice between being right and looking ‘reasonable’. Demanding an end to private property is not ‘reasonable’, calling to armed struggle against the ruling class is not ‘reasonable’, wanting more than concessions is not ‘reasonable’; any true Marxist will not ever be ‘reasonable’ in the eyes of the dominant ideology.

anarcho-capitalism and libertarianism are ideologies of the petit-bourgeoisie, they are too weak of a class to actually impose their ideologies on the world. the only thing you get from libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism in the real world is the big bourgeoisie using it as justification when its convenient, meanwhile they hypocritically use the government for their own benefit.

I’m not vegan myself, but it’s very funny seeing people get triggered by vegans.

On the other hand, it is also quite a bad sign that the US ruling class allows the US proletariat to be armed to the extent that it is. It shows that they don’t see the US proletariat, in its current state, as any sort of a threat to their class. And in truth, the US proletariat are not a threat in the present; at most they do a bit of adventurism and let off a bit steam in spontaneous movements.

“And i don’t mean stuff like deepfakes/sora/palantir/anything like that” bro, we don’t live in a world where LLMs are excluded from those uses

the technology itself isn’t bad, but we live in a shitty capitalist world where every instance of automation, rather than liberating mankind, fucks them over. a thing that can allow one person to do the labor of many is a beautiful thing, but under capitalism increases of productivity only lead to unemployment; though, on the bright side, it consequently also causes a decrease in the rate of profit.

it also doesn’t help that white nationalists are opportunistically misdirecting the rightful hatred towards Israel to push real antisemitism and hatred towards marginalized groups (since antisemites claim that marginalized groups are propped up or promoted by the jews to destroy white civilization)