On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 08:55 AM, hari kumar wrote: > > a unitary democratic centralists party.
I would like someone could explain to me when such a party existed in reality in any of those so-called socialist countries, one such party that was democratic not just unitary and centralist. My knowledge and long experience tell me that anyone who tried to make those parties a little democratic was quickly expelled from those parties. There was some democracy under Lenin but only in the Central committee, not the whole party . That someone believes that something like that existed under Stalin when Stalin killed almost all members of the Bolshevik Central Committee is beyond belief. But maybe I misunderstood this "That it may serve as a discussion area for those believing there was a socialist state in the USSR up to 1953." and " I talked a while back as to why I think the term Stalinist is simply a catch-all for simple abuse or a lumping together of whatever-you-don't-like of Brezhenivism" To repeat the words of the well-known Yugoslav (Croatian) Marxist philosopher Milan Kangrga: "Nowhere in the world was there socialism, or communism, and least of all Marx's. It was about Stalinism that lasted the whole epoch. And if you call Stalinism left-wing, then you can shoot yourself. Are we really going to say that Stalin was a follower of Marx or a humanist?" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29255): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29255 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104713347/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
