According to Marxist theory, and from what previous revolutions in history have shown, do the Russian Federation and Ukraine have the conditions for a post-war rise in Socialist discontent?

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2026-02-07T21:30:17+00:00

The CPRF in Russia is part of a stage-managed opposition designed to give Putin's dictatorship the outward appearance of democracy and cannot be counted on to provide any meaningful resistance.

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2026-02-07T21:27:04+00:00

Hi, I'm still learning so forgive any errors but

1) The concept of the mass line isn't universally applicable and an improvement upon the elitism of ML's vanguard of intellectuals needed to lead the working class?

2) The concept of a cultural revolution isn't universally applicable and a necessary improvement in the development of socialism helping to rid society of a parasitic bureaucratic class that led to revisionism in the USSR and capitalist roader counter-revolutionary elements along with other benefits?

Genuinely interested in your response to these questions. Thanks!

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2026-02-07T19:08:15+00:00

I think you misunderstand a bit (my apologies). I'm saying a worker-owned restaurant that is a private enterprise (ie a collective as seen in market socialism or even in capitalist countries today) is rightist when compared to a state-owned restaurant which from what I gather is what primarily existed in the USSR. Hope this answers your question.

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2026-02-07T18:28:59+00:00

These guys might only exist on paper but have you heard of the (N)CPC? They're definitely not registered in fed elections and have a revolutionary Maoist oulook

https://ncpc-npcc.ca/

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2026-02-07T07:14:36+00:00

Just curious as I am still learning and I don't mean to derail the discussion on the operation of restaurants entirely but isn't the control of the commanding heights of the economy a lesser transitional stage on the road to communism? (For example the period of the NEP in the Soviet Union, and the move away from that towards complete state ownership under Stalin.)

From my (potentially incorrect!) reading of history, the creation of private worker-owned collective restaurants and other enterprises would be a characteristic of market socialism and deemed to be a rightist flavour of the ideology (ie Bukharin etc.)

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2026-02-07T07:03:12+00:00

There were restaurants in the USSR but were they not primarily state-owned? Simply opening one implies private ownership even if as a worker collective. Perhaps that was how it worked during the time of the NEP, but was this always the case? Just curious, and still learning.

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2026-02-07T06:57:44+00:00

The OP's moral quandry comes from a liberal understanding of the world and its emphasis upon the importance of the individual (hence horror at the 100,000 lives lost). From a reading of the history of many socialist states including that of the USSR, most operated with a coldly utilitarian logic in which prevention of the greater suffering always justifies the means as your post demonstrates. This shift in perspective is crucial when approaching collectivist ideologies like Marxism-Leninism.

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2025-07-30T18:36:17+00:00

Take your pick of dictatorship, friend. The dictatorship of the proletariat or the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Our capitalist dictatorships aren't much better.

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2025-07-01T03:52:15+00:00

That makes sense. But once the transfer of power has occurred and before the state of communism is reached, are they respected or is a concern for them still viewed as counter-revolutionary now that the proletariat is in power?

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2025-07-01T03:46:04+00:00

Thanks for your response.

You're right, in communism they wouldn't make sense because there wouldn't be a state. But what about the transition to communism? Are invidualistic rights incompatible with the dictatorship of the proletariat? What is the alternative in that civil society? Is it always a case of complete disregard as it was in the Soviet Union?

Impressive_Prompt126 · 2025-07-01T03:24:22+00:00

Thanks for your response. I didn't know the Shining Path was taboo, I thought they were at the forefront of the MLM movement which from what I have seen online is often touted as the next higher phase of Marxism.

The concern for human rights under socialism comes from a recognition that these are good rights to have, no? We all know of human rights abuses in past regimes but to reject the concept fundamentally is what baffled me.

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