There are a lot of reasons why I and many other Marxist-Leninists dislike Trotskyists, but the main reason is their fallacious idea of "permanent revolution" and their rejection of the possibility of socialism being able to be built in one country, which the Soviet Union and various other socialist countries disproved decades ago.
"Between capitalist and communist society, there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing butย the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat." โ Karl Marx, "Critique of the Gotha Programme"
Anti-tankie memes don't help the working class. They deflect attention from the real issues of class struggle and imperialism. Anyone ridiculing Marxism-Leninism is only revealing their own ignorance of the complex historical and material forces that shape our world. Just have a conversation with a Marxist-Leninist instead of making memes against them, even if you disagree, because at least that's more constructive of an activity to partake in.
Now that the US has fallen to the oligarchy, Elon Musk has set his sights on the UK โ using his disinformation platform X to constantly fill the feeds of British voters with negative, false stories about the UK.
When will European politicians realize how dangerous this man and his disinformation platform is?
America hasn't "fallen to the oligarchy." America was already an oligarchy long before Trump ever became president. What America has fallen to is Christo-Fascism.
"Of all the classes that stand face-to-face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product." - Karl Marx
Bernie Sanders is a joke, and he is a joke because he is a reformist. Reformism always starts off as "we can change the system from the inside" and quickly results in these idealistic fools (reformists) being absorbed into the capitalist system that they vowed to defeat. Revolution is the only solution. Don't trust Bernie Sanders.
There was a singular moment in 2015-16 where Bernie Sanders could have been the Democrat Elect instead of Clinton. He was sabotaged, and along that, so was democracy in the US, as it opened the gates for Trump and all that ensued afterwards.
The future (and present) in the US is oligarchy, not a democratic republic. It's just that now it's going to be completely in the open, and legally elected for it. The dream is dead.
Not necessarily. Agitation comes before action. People have to actually get the idea of revolting against the bourgeoisie into the ether in order for it to resonate with enough people to make it happen in real life.
@nanoelquant I'm bored now. You haven't convinced anyone of anything. I'm going to keep being a communist and hating the Ukrainian government, and there's nothing you can do about it. May the Ukrainian government cease to exist and be replaced by a proper socialist government once more, no matter how many dumb anti-communist laws they make to try to prevent it from happening.
The USSR is the reason socialism is as popular as it is now. They popularized socialism all over the world, exposed billions of people to socialism, and helped create socialist states all over Europe, so I disagree with your assertion that the USSR "did more to put people off of socialism than any capitalist government," which is not at all true.
I can't speak about "corruption" or "subordination to a colonial power" because I'm not well-informed on that.