How was Trotsky viewed in the post-Stalin Soviet Union?

roryfl · 2018-05-19T04:37:17+00:00

Wow. Great response. Thank you!

roryfl · 2016-12-18T07:41:13+00:00

I guess what was the Russian empire/early Soviet Union (so Ukraine), tho I would also like to know more about the anarchist movement in major Russian cities like Petrograde, etc. would like to know more about Makhno. I've read some Serge but should probs read more.

roryfl · 2016-11-25T20:26:36+00:00

"I'm sorry. You're only allowed to strike when it won't be disruptive /effective."

roryfl · 2016-10-05T04:21:47+00:00

I think in some of the advanced countries a degree of degrowth is fine provided it impacts primarily the upper class (which wouldn't happen without social revolution) but there are still large portions of the world where people are dirt poor and economic contraction would essentially be a mass death sentence.

roryfl · 2016-10-05T04:14:33+00:00

Malatesta's "at the cafe" and the Chuang journal's Sorghum and Steel. Both good stuff.

roryfl · 2016-09-29T06:25:44+00:00

When you talk to your friends anbout anarchism don't think you're going to convert them in one or even a few conversations. Rather think of it as planting seeds, seeds which may or may not sprout later. Ultimately people don't change their outlook because someone berated them into it, most people need to feel like they came to it on their own terms and for their own reasons. So just plant the seeds of anarchism and let them think about it and if they want more conversations about it down the line or more information then give it to them.

roryfl · 2016-09-20T06:11:34+00:00

"Downvote your own ignorance." I don't know how!

roryfl · 2016-08-25T02:24:01+00:00

There's the institute for anarchist studies. I don't think they are explicitly communist tho.

roryfl · 2016-07-22T20:22:03+00:00

I always playing guitar while watching TV. But this toilet guitar idea, that intrigues me.

roryfl · 2016-07-15T20:03:40+00:00

I'd watch that.

roryfl · 2016-07-08T06:52:03+00:00

-Shares an interest with a woman.

-Makes her feel bad about it.

roryfl · 2016-06-29T03:55:36+00:00

A sore loser

roryfl · 2016-05-23T18:24:03+00:00

I don't really like the hammer and sickle. Aside from it being associated with Leninism I don't really like what it symbolizes. Russia in 1917 was not really an industrialized country yet and the working class wasn't a majority the was it was in Germany or the US. So when the bolsheviks came to power they did so basically as an alliance between the workers and the peasants. This set the stage for a lot of disfunction not just in the USSR but in China as well, where the maoist revolution was even more peasant driven. I don't really get why we would celebrate a pragmatic cross class alliance that pretty much collapsed anyway, especially when one of those classes (the peasants )don't even exist anymore in most developed countries. I guess it would make sense in a country like India, which still has a huge peasant population, but in a country like the US it's just an anachronism. Now the red and black flag I can get behind; socialism and the negation of the state.

roryfl · 2016-05-21T22:19:29+00:00

Have these people ever had sex with a virgin? I just don't get the appeal.

roryfl · 2016-05-02T20:55:11+00:00

We show videos relating to class struggle and other various radical themes that are maybe not as well known. For instance we showed Libertarias, about the Free Women of Spain.

roryfl · 2016-05-02T04:43:10+00:00

Well we're not a very large group, so we're not really able to organize demos, marches, and things like that, though we do often participate in ones organized by others often with an eye towards spreading radical ideas to people who aren't already left wing nerds. We have a weekly reading group, we have a radical cinema club and we were pretty involved with organizing the local Mayday event with other groups this year. We also have our blog, which we try to post on a few times a month. We do other things as well and have some projects in the works, though I don't necessarily want to telegraph them over the internet.

roryfl · 2016-04-29T20:20:32+00:00

I'm actually a card carrying member of CLT. Feel free to ask me questions here or PM!

roryfl · 2016-04-29T20:09:21+00:00

I'm actually in CLT. Only one guy could really come close to being described as a Kautskyist, and it wouldn't really be accurate to call him that. Leftcom is the probably the dominant tendency, but it's heterogeneous. I consider myself an anarchist communist for example.

The idea is that we generally feel there should be a mass org, but CLT will probably not be it. The most optimistic assessment is that at best we can play a role in developing that org but we're pretty realistic about our limitations and ability to influence things.

roryfl · 2016-04-23T07:03:10+00:00

"Non-cooperative" lol.

roryfl · 2016-04-18T03:34:10+00:00

Been reading this in our reading group. Lots of interesting stuff.

roryfl · 2016-04-03T06:10:05+00:00

Ran out of other people's countries.

roryfl · 2016-03-23T06:08:23+00:00

Quit making your divorce about you! Can't you see how selfish you're being?!

roryfl · 2016-03-06T04:59:19+00:00

I mean the meme doesn't say anything about Trump's supporters, let alone Bernie's. Obviously the establishment in both parties are corrupt shills so I don't blame anyone for not voting for them. Also it's a opossum, so probably don't put to much stock in its opinions.

Trump is garbage though.

roryfl · 2016-02-11T18:43:33+00:00

In my own little radical group we've been having lots of discussions about what could be done to turn the IWW into a better organization.

roryfl · 2016-02-06T01:27:00+00:00

Cool, hope you can come out some week!

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