My dad called me one last week. I told him I’m not even a communist, just a moderate social democrat who likes Soviet symbols for the shock value. (Not true, I’m a Marxist-Leninist, but gotta keep the peace with family, IYKYK.) But now I’m wondering, is “Stalinism” even a thing? Are any of you bears “Stalinists”?
do you think it’d be funny to plunge a know-nothing lib into the deep end of the olde leftist infighting, by saying “I’m not a stalinist, stalinists are Hoxhaists, I’m a Marxist-Leninist! That’s like calling a Marxist-Leninist who adheres to Mao Zedong thought a Maoist. You’re practically spitting in their face because you’re calling them a gonzolite baby bath-water enjoyer or a pot-head!”
“whats a pot-head?”
“someone that hates cities and glasses”
“like a hipster?”
“sure lets go with that.”
I assume it would be like walking into the Star Wars cantina for them.
Calling soneone a Rosa killing luxembourgist is advanced leftism
“Do you want the entire story of scientific socialism starting with Marx and Engels, or do you just want to know why real socialists never trust socdems?”
I think it would be hilarious to drag a clueless lib into leftist infighting. Take this random social democrat who wants to learn about the actual left, instead of forcing him to read Lenin until his eyes are bleeding and he still doesn’t have any greater understanding, just a bunch of outdated terminology and a pounding headache, drag him into a place where leftists infight and tell him “go talk to people, I need to go to the ladies’, I’ll be back in ten minutes, don’t piss off the cranks”, and expect to come out of the toilets just in time to see the Maoists and the Hoxhaists agreeing to throw him out.
you forgot to include the trot calling the sucdem a series of archaic insults in words and sentences that’re both dated to silent generation lingo and all the wordy shit they’ve read from the collective trot library right to their face while pushing them to buy their paper.
also the trot’s either fucking ancient or freshly graduated from highschool
“You people are the reason the left has no unity.” - Guy my dad’s dad’s age. Not a minute later… “Can we interest you in a newspaper?” - Guy who looks 14 and can’t be a day over 19, with a voice squeakier than my kid brother’s. Wearing the same party symbol as the guy who insulted me. “This is why I don’t go to left unity shit anymore. Come on, buddy. Let’s go home and read some theory, you’ll learn more doing that than hanging around here.” - Me, beyond frustrated at this complete waste of my time, to the guy I dragged there.
Fuckin’ Trots. The jokes write themselves. (It is rather funny that the only Trots older than like 20 are old enough to be the younger ones’ grandparents.)
Excellent bit, lol. Might have to try that next time!
How have I never heard this term in this context? Too good.