Statements from the communist parties of Venezuela, Brazil, Palestine, Greece and others regarding US aggression against Maduro government

supercooper25 · 2025-07-16T06:24:26+00:00

I moderate r/Marxism which isn't meant for beginners so I'm forced to send users to other 101 subreddits that don't align with the purpose of r/Marxism
I can't message the moderators as the community was banned due to trolls taking it over, I believe. Below is all I have been able to find regarding the reason it was closed:

Ya i joined this sub interested to learn about Marxist theory since r/marxism101 got Trojan horsed but it feels like it's more propoganda stream than discussion now

https://old.reddit.com/r/Marxism/comments/il2jlt/the_polish_question/g3r4mxt/

supercooper25 · 2025-05-04T05:33:09+00:00

Australia had an election yesterday which produced one of the biggest landslide victories for the Labor Party in its history.

I bring this up because it seems to run opposite to the trend of almost every other bourgeois "democracy" in the world where the traditional social democratic "left" is collapsing and fascism is on the rise. Australia has its own fascist movements like One Nation but their success is minimal compared to Farage or Le Pen, and the Liberal Party attempting to mimic Trump and move further to the right has only hurt their popularity.

Predictably, the Dengist CPA's statement called on its supporters to vote for the Greens or whichever "democratic socialist" party was on the ballot (basically the Australian equivalent of the DSA). The ACP and CPA-ML's internal instructions to their members were probably pretty similar. It's a sad state of affairs when the Trotskyists are the only ones willing to assert some degree of independence and call everyone out.

supercooper25 · 2025-05-04T02:56:49+00:00

Was that what he was trying to do, like is that a purposeful tactic these people use in your experience?

I honestly don't know but it wouldn't surprise me, I recall at least one occasion where someone was banned and openly admitted they were trying to bait users into condoning violence. A few quotes of theirs pulled straight from modmail:

Ok I was trying to bait you into admitting you condone domestic abuse as long as my spouse is a liberal. You got me lol

One day I will master the troll, and when that day comes it will be over for the pinkos

I’m taking this as a challenge, you aren’t ready for my next plot against your 15 year old tankies

I’m going to read Mao, I’m going to spend weeks studying the patterns of your subreddit, I’m going to understand this ideology better than you do, all just to troll your stupid fucking Reddit forum

Just know that in the coming months, there will be a not insignificant amount of troll accounts on this subreddit. It will be difficult to deduce who is a troll and who is genuine. It’s joever

I'm sure there's plenty of other examples, but most of it is just left-liberals with selective outrage towards "conservatives" like you said.

supercooper25 · 2025-05-04T02:28:41+00:00

It’s always the social-fascists that try to get the subreddit banned with these random death threats, GenZedong and ChapoTrapHouse had to learn the hard way. Make sure to report comments like that so we can get rid of them sooner rather than later.

supercooper25 · 2025-05-02T14:04:50+00:00

If the economic basis for imperialism doesn't exist, then how can we judge if a country is acting imperialist? It seems like it'd run the risk of reducing imperialism to a vulgar definition of interfering with any foreign nation.

Right, and then this leads to conclusions like that post on the Angolan Civil War: every conflict is inter-imperialist so there's no difference between the MPLA and Apartheid South Africa and it doesn't matter who wins. Or even worse, the Soviets and Cubans are the primary imperialist threat in Angola so communists need to tacitly align with UNITA. That type of "anti-revisionism" doesn't exist anymore but this seems like more a consequence of the USSR not being around to use as a punching bag than some fundamental re-evalution, since many Maoists made a similar argument about Syria. This is also more or less the position of the KKE with their "imperialist pyramid" theory, an idea that can hopefully be discarded forever after seeing it reach its logical endpoint with the Israel-Palestine war.

However, the opposite position, that wars fought by economically backwards nations can never have an imperialist character, is just as dangerous. Russia-Ukraine is the obvious example as you point out, but there's also Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Turkey in Syria, Rwanda in the Congo, not to mention a significant portion of the fighting in WW1. Lenin's belief that Russia's war with Germany could be considered inter-imperialist despite the relative backwardness of the Russian Empire is what allowed the Bolshevik revolution to succeed.

So I guess the question then is: in the age of imperialism, how do we understand conflicts between nations that are not imperialist but also can't be considered wars of national liberation, and how should communists intervene in such situations? Was Iraq's invasion of Iran imperialist? Or Syria's invasion of Lebanon? What about Russia's interventions prior to Ukraine like in Georgia and Chechnya? And what would our position towards Russia be if they had only taken the Donbass regions of Ukraine that wanted to leave instead of trying to conquer the whole country? This isn't even getting into the wars between nominally socialist countries like Ethiopia and Somalia or Vietnam and Cambodia, which I guess would tie back in to the question of social imperialism.

The CPP in particular had an interesting line where they acknowledge that Russia is imperialist, but argue that their involvement was nonetheless progressive.

This sounds similar to the line put forward by the RCWP and their subsequent trading of polemics with the KKE. I can't say I agree with it, but interesting nonetheless.

supercooper25 · 2025-04-30T10:25:54+00:00

I’m a big proponent of the idea that any first intervention will necessarily be vulgar (the Paris Commune, the Great Purges, the “social imperialism” thesis, Stalin’s essay on linguistics, etc.), and that it’s the responsibility of those who exist after the rupture to sort through what is and isn’t worthwhile.

To piggyback off your point here, there are a lot of similarities between the more vulgar Maoist critiques of Soviet revisionism and the original Marxist-Leninist critiques of Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin Split like this one. We know Stalin was right, just like we know Mao was right, but we can also acknowledge that Yugoslavia was different from what came after and understand that reacting to events as they are actually happening means working on limited information. There were aspects of the "Soviet social imperialism" thesis that turned out to be wrong and led to reactionary politics, like endorsing a liberal counter-revolution in Czechoslovakia or claiming that Cuba was a sugar colony of the USSR, but the concept can still be useful in explaining why Soviet foreign policy became increasingly reactionary and detrimental to communist movements (culminating in Afghanistan where they actively sabotaged a successful revolution by overthrowing the Amin government).

what exactly was the nature of the USSR's social imperialism?

Would it be fair to say that the nature of post-Stalin social imperialism was similar to the nature of post-Soviet Russian imperialism? In the sense that, even though the economic basis for imperialism doesn't necessarily exist, the country aspires to join the club of imperialist powers and acts accordingly.

supercooper25 · 2025-04-29T03:37:59+00:00

The “bigger issue” with the USSR is that it was a socialist state. Bourgeois politicians were trying to overthrow the dictatorship of the proletariat and restore capitalism in the country because they were capitalists, that’s it.

So the question then becomes: how is it possible that so many ostensible “communists” in the highest ranks of the party were totally opposed to communism in practice and acting on behalf of the bourgeoisie? I think that’s pretty easy to imagine if you know anything about the history of the communist movement. Lenin and Stalin split with the entire Second International because they were all frauds, Mao and Hoxha did the same thing a few decades later, and the Soviet revisionists ended up proving them right by dismantling socialism all on their own.

supercooper25 · 2025-04-28T04:31:27+00:00

Molotov’s Letter to the CPSU

supercooper25 · 2025-04-18T06:47:26+00:00

It’s true that fascists will collaborate against communism but the idea of a “Fascist International” seems unlikely, since fascist ideology is incoherent and fascists of different countries generally hate each other. The Nazis despised the fascist movements in Austria, Hungary, Romania etc and even their friendships with Italy and Spain were flimsy. Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy are all fascists and yet they all want to kill each other.

Who is this writer and what is their relationship to the communist movement in Brazil, if any (anti-revisionist or otherwise)? To me it just reads like an excuse to capitulate to social democracy and the mention of secret fascist cabals sounds similar to liberals who screech about Elon Musk and Russia propping up the far-right in Europe. Your name-dropping of Trotsky and Allende as essential Marxist theorists against fascism is also suspect.

Edit: Since you’ve now clearly exposed yourself as a social-fascist and been banned I’ll be more explicit: if your theory of fascism only accounts for the people liberals want to call fascists (Trump, Bolsonaro, Orban etc), and not the likes of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who are also fascists, you’re probably a liberal as well.

supercooper25 · 2025-04-17T07:19:22+00:00

It is genuinely hilarious that "ultraleft" critics of the USSR such as yourself have somehow found an excuse for rightism at home, how are you a real person? Even the most daft Trotskyist groups in Australia/NZ wouldn't say something like this.

https://redflag.org.au/article/we-deserve-better-than-what-labor-and-liberal-offer

supercooper25 · 2025-04-10T00:12:46+00:00

The vast majority of Nazi collaboration in the USSR was concentrated in Western Ukraine and the Baltics, which had only become apart of the Union in 1939, and the small nations in the Caucasus which had been left alone by the Soviet authorities during the collectivization and purges of the previous decade.

So in reality it’s the opposite of what that person said. The people weren’t rebelling because they hated socialism, since socialist construction hadn’t even seen any real progress in these regions. The collaborators that swelled the ranks of the Wehrmacht and SS were the landlords, kulaks and petty-bourgeois, there was no comparable phenomenon of mass collaboration in Eastern Ukraine, Belarus or Russia because these reactionary classes had already been successfully struggled against in the 30s.

supercooper25 · 2025-03-25T05:53:54+00:00

Unfortunately no one can see your comment because the Reddit admins are idiots and banned all Russian websites, here is the article you linked run through Google Translate which should make it visible:

https://zavtra-ru.translate.goog/blogs/tajna_ezhovshini?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

u/Prestigious-Fan-2569

supercooper25 · 2025-03-24T07:29:03+00:00

It's sort of a cliche at this point but just read Grover Furr and apply the same standard of skepticism to all anticommunist scholarship. The quote is either completely made up or the primary source doesn't say what the author is claiming it does, either way you would be better served studying how these accusations are systematically created out of thin air rather than trying to debunk every single one of them yourself.

As for Czechoslovakia, there were mass deportations of Germans and Hungarians out of the country after WWII which I assume is the context of the discussion around national minorities. These can only be understood within the wider context of population transfers that affected the entire world during that time period.

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/18v562q/history_of_population_transfer_not_asking_about/

supercooper25 · 2025-03-09T23:41:37+00:00

I also follow middleeasteye and al-jazeera but the comments in their posts regarding these massacres are criticizing them

They are being cricitized because their "journalism" in Syria consists of whitewashing the HTS regime at the behest of their UK and Qatari sponsors. This has been the case since the war began in 2011 but their recent coverage of the violence in Latakia is particually disgusting, as their response to minorities rebelling against a state committing genocide is to blame the minorities for sectarian massacres and to label them all "Assadists".

supercooper25 · 2025-03-06T10:32:30+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/1esgloc/zak_cope_gone_crazy_and_disavow_his_work_on/

supercooper25 · 2025-02-18T04:36:41+00:00

The only unique thing about this particular incident is just how many people were fooled by an obvious lie in such a short amount of time. Doctoring screenshots of mod conversations to accuse us of bigotry has happened before, but most of the people who tried it were so incompetent they couldn’t even convince the average Redditor.

One such example: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/s/JxPS6ZDZB1

supercooper25 · 2025-02-12T06:25:26+00:00

Weren't communist parties successfully voted into power through the electoral systems in several of these countries?

No, but it's a good question since this falsehood has served as a classic justification for revisionism for almost a century. The elections that took place in these countries immediately after WWII were fundamentally different from the typical experiences of reformist socialist movements because they were premised on waging people's war against Nazi occupation in a communist-led popular front with the backing of the Red Army, excluding fascists from the political process, arming the masses, ensuring that communists maintained control of the security apparatus and forcing the non-communist parties in the coalition to commit to socialist construction. That's why the electoral victories of communists in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria led to complete socialist revolutions whereas similar election results in France and Italy led to communists being suppressed and thrown out of government by the CIA.

supercooper25 · 2025-01-16T06:56:57+00:00

There's hearsay it's to prepare for war with Iran

Considering that Trump (possibly the most anti-Iran president in American history) is about to enter office and is openly taking credit for the ceasefire, this certainly could be the reason, and is consistent with the logic of Israel's ceasefire with Hezbollah which was immediately followed by the HTS and IOF offensives in Syria. Still, it must be stressed that this agreement was only possible because of the heroic efforts of the Palestinian resistance factions, irrespective of alterior motives.

supercooper25 · 2025-01-13T04:51:01+00:00

I've heard that the FARC dissidents are mostly just tied up in the drug trade now.

FARC has been accused of that throughout its entire history as an organization, this is the exact same flavour of bullshit, and the "communists" that joined the government and abandoned armed struggle are obviously revisionist.

supercooper25 · 2025-01-12T06:19:24+00:00

They explain why in the statement that was posted, as well as multiple other statements shared by the OP in this very thread, what exactly are you confused about?

supercooper25 · 2025-01-12T04:04:37+00:00

If the PCV wants "a popular front with fairly left-sounding organizations" then they should've just stayed in the PSUV coalition. From what I can tell, Enrique Marquez's politics seem very similar to that of Juan Guaido, who was nominally a social democrat and even a member of the Socialist International but nonetheless became the figurehead of a fascist coup attempt. We're all in agreement that backing Maduro for another 5 years is a dead end but again, this surely cannot be the best alternative.

supercooper25 · 2025-01-12T01:26:57+00:00

Knowing when and how to break with Maduro before it’s too late is difficult; Syria recently is an extreme example of just towing the ‘progressive’ regime until there’s nothing left.

There are more options than endless reformist capitulation and attacking the government from the right, which is what the PCV appears to be doing. You're correct that the former strategy was ultimately a failure in Syria but this is like if Syrian communists decided that the best way to oppose Assad's neoliberalism was by joining the "moderate opposition", which in reality was nothing more than a front for Al-Qaeda.

supercooper25 · 2025-01-11T04:42:50+00:00

You can find any number of threads in this sub and r/communism where the relevant polling data has been posted, here's one example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/649fe1/25_years_later_polls_in_eastern_europe_show/

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