Lilybump

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"This, incidentally, raises the question of opportunism. Opportunism means sacrificing fundamental interests so as to gain temporary and partial advantages. That is the gist of the matter, if we consider the theoretical definition of opportunism. Many people have gone astray on this point. In the case of the Brest-Litovsk Peace, we sacrificed Russia’s interests, as understood in the patriotic sense, which were, in fact, secondary from the socialist point of view. We made immense sacrifices, yet they were only minor ones. The Germans hated Britain implacably. They hated the Bolsheviks too, but we held out a bait, and they fell for it."

Lenin, Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Activists Of The Moscow Organisation of the R.C.P.(B.)

[–] Lilybump@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

To quote ProleWiki's article on the CPC:

The CPC is incorrectly referred to as "Chinese Communist Party" (CCP) in Western media, despite the CPC declaring "Communist Party of China" to be the official English translation of its native name. This may be used in order to promote Sinophobia, as well as for propaganda against China (due to the similarity of the acronym CCP to the Cyrillic acronym for the Soviet Union, which is СССР, thus evoking memories of the Red Scare).

[–] Lilybump@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

ProtonVPN works very well, even with its free option.

 

“This person does not grasp class struggle; he has never referred to this key link. Still his theme of ‘white cat, black cat,’ making no distinction between imperialism and Marxism.”

This supposed quote by Mao comes from the top of this work here. Does anyone know its origins?