No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state’s longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.
  • Vertraumir@lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    7 days ago

    Good article, but then:

    Though the USSR had for decades been dominated by the counterrevolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy—which exterminated the Marxist opposition to their nationalist policies led by Leon Trotsky, renounced the program of world socialist revolution, and helped stabilize world capitalism after the defeat of the Nazis

    Western anti-soviet “communists”, yeah

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      18·
      7 days ago

      This should not come as a surprise as it’s common knowledge that WSWS are Trotskyists. Every ML should be aware of this, just like we are aware when reading articles written by reactionary sources, which nonetheless can sometimes offer valuable analysis, albeit tainted by the respective author’s ideological biases.

      • comfy
        11·
        7 days ago

        Despite their claims, WSWS (that is, SEP) are beyond mere Trotskyists, they’re an infantile disorder. At least, that’s the situation on the ground here where they counter-protest pickets and May Day. Everyone is a ‘Stalinist’ or ‘Pseudo-left’ except them. I saw this reposted in a group and it’s uncanny:

        • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          6 days ago

          I don’t know about their on the ground work but at least in their online publications they constantly exhibit an unhealthy obsession with labeling everything “Stalinist”.

          • comfy
            2·
            6 days ago

            Definitely, but I’m somewhat numb to that since Stalin is an obviously controversial figure in the West anyway, so I’m also surprised at how viciously they denounce anyone trying to apply even Trotsky’s own theories to a real world reality as pseudo-leftist, let alone any existing union organization. Textbook ultra-leftism (although oddly many of their sects engage in electoralism).

            I remember the first time I came across an article of theirs, I was thinking it was decent and then out of nowhere, a hamfisted non-sequitur paragraph brings up Leon Trotsky who by the way did you know this was killed by Joeseph Joestarlin in 1940? Trotsky themself barely had any relevance, let alone their assassination.

            It’s almost like a vocal tic, or perhaps a quota.

  • comfy
    16·
    7 days ago

    Claiming there are no victims of communism is brave, even for us. Trudeau gov, please at least add “Nazi Germany” to the list.