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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Reading Imperialism right now, and he still rags on Kautsky, Lenin's such a petty dude he-laughed

Like, I understand and agree, but Lenin would have absolutely been a reverse Ben Shapiro if he lived in our era, it's great lenin-rage

Certain bourgeois writers (now joined by Karl Kautsky, who has completely abandoned the Marxist position he had held, for example, in 1909)

The pure hatred Lenin has for Kautsky is fucking hilarious to me che-smile

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago

I aspire to achieve this level of hater someday

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Reading Imperialism right now, and he still rags on Kautsky, Lenin's such a petty dude

I have often been struck by this reading all those 19th-century and 20th-century guys in general.... Marx beefing with Proudhon.... Stalin beefing with everybody

Surely the right is the main target?

Reminds me of Stallman and how he obsessively hates on "open-source" instead of focusing on targeting proprietary software.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago

I think this is more a matter of course when you don't have the internet. Correct ideas among generally aligned people are more important when you're already generally aligned, Lenin's target audience wasn't really right-wingers.

It's an artifact of time, you see constant leftist infighting even now, because it is easier to get impassioned about people who mostly agree with you than it is to get impassioned about people entirely divorced from your worldview and conclusions.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Having a main target doesn't mean you don't have other targets, and refuting incorrect ideas is important when belief in these ideas is what holds a movement together and allows it to preserve its revolutionary character. When you have an actual movement out there in the world, you can't just be ambivalent about the positive aspect of your theory so that everyone can hold hands and get along. You need to organize a certain way and not others, just as you cannot sail a ship simultaneously in two directions. Lenin and company were completely correct in trying to correct the course of their respective ships.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

wait a minute

this isn't hakim

[–] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

Smh can't believe Lenin stole Hakim's face and turned it into grayscale

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

His channel would be like 9 Kautsky hate videos per 1 banger on something else, and that one banger would have a jab at Kautsky at some point.

I would subscribe to his Patreon

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trotsky has recorded a stupid video essay

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We shall not react to it

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

what a poster the world lost sicko-wistful

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Second International situation just got worse...

[–] miz@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

didn't Lenin have a better command of English than this? I know he at least had an Irish accent

Lenin English was pretty average, at least compared to German and French.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Imagine the edgy shit that stirner-cool would be up to.

[–] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago
[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Interesting timeline