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[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also Stalinism was so dead in Cuba that Che was a committed follower of Stalin https://cpcml.ca/cpcmlarticle2303081445/

“Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated” (1953 letter to his Aunt Beatriz.

[–] ComradeEchidna@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

In the so called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Series of things that are very good

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

I'd like to think that living under United Fruit would make even the most ardent principled anarchist reconsider the merits of Stalinist terror.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Che was the most based outside agitator.