he wasn't, but the khmer rouge certainly took CIA money after they were overthrown by the FUNSK.

mobile.twitter.com/MikePrysner/status/1232406933199450112

Would you be able to say if most of this info is accurate? Obvs i dont think of cuba as some "authoritarian" regime, but i didn't know about a lot of this stuff in regards to their elections tbh

this is all correct. cuba has multi-party elections and has had them since 1992, and the PCC legally can't run a candidate list or do public campaigns (nobody can, for that matter). the PCC exists as something more akin to a social advocacy group than a traditional political party in modern day Cuba.

He wasn't planted by the CIA but he was definitely supported by US & UK intelligence services when he turned on the USSR and went to war against Communist Vietnam and launched the Cambodian genocide.

Ocho where are you

this is simply incorrect. executions of urban intelligentsia happened well before the FUNSK invasion and the entire "genocide" narrative was fabricated by US "academics" ex post facto by including the number of dead from illegal carpet napalming and agent orange attacks from the ongoing Indochinese genocide carried out by the US military against 3 different sovereign states (this included nearly 2 million Cambodians btw, conveniently these are the same sources which float the bs "Stalin/Mao killed 100 trillion bajillion people" narrative). agricultural land was completely razed and rendered infertile by these attacks, which led to mass starvations. the evacuation of Phnom Penh into what were called "the killing fields" was an emergency action carried out by the government to start the process of collectivization and making land arable again to deal with the starvation crisis.

what people think about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge is irrelevant, I don't find any of this particularly interesting and the government wasnt around long enough to draw any real conclusions about it; but I do understand the purpose of this narrative, which has a duel effect of making Americans not give a s*** about Cambodians and also furthers the general attitude of anti-communism. if people are interested in actual reading material on this than Chomsky and Herman's work on the topic still holds up and is well researched, but i doubt anybody really cares enough to do the research, Cambodia really just exists nowadays as a liberal talking point.

oddly nobody really cares or even talks about the United Nations' invasion of Kampuchea in 1992 (totally unprecedented a the time) which completely decollectivized the country and forced them to accept US hegemony, i wonder why.

it's interesting how certain genocide narratives are so easily swallowed up even by those on the left, something like Rwanda is actually no different and very few people in the west know what actually happened and that Kagame's invasion of Rwanda was backed by NATO from the start and more Hutus died as a result than Tutsis, or that a second genocide of Hutus occurred as a result of the ensuing invasion of the Congo.

blackagendareport.com/rwanda_enduring_lies

but again, nobody really cares about Africa, or Indochina, these places only exist as abstract concepts so that liberals can project power onto the underdeveloped world.

You could say all of that without telling an African that Africa is just an abstract concept to me lol

lol im not talking about you, this is why i said "liberals". sorry if it came off that way. i brought up rwanda just as another example of how these narratives get built.

where'd you find a copy? only seeing french and italian

readmarxeveryday.org/stalin/losurdo-en-20180311.html

here you go comrade

we can do it

Do you guys think that that the general practice of commerce on its own is immoral?

no, and "morality" cannot share the political space with marxism. obviously commerce exists, the question is, who should benefit from commerce and why will it inevitably exist under socialism?

PPP gonna pull out this guyana win, i can feel it

Where do you get the factual news about that? I've read that 2 parties declared victory.

We need that spark family

just following the official results from GECOM. also I follow the PPP on facebook.

there was definitely some bullshit going on during this poll, APNU government is trying to rig this one again.

Statement by Presidential Candidate
Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali
I wish to commend the people of Guyana for their unrelenting commitment to maintain respect for our democracy and the inalienable right of Guyanese to elect a government of their choice. To our supporters, I wish to urge you to remain calm and respectful for the established processes.
As a law-abiding party, we have activated legal recourses to halt the attempted efforts by David Granger and some operatives of GECOM to manipulate the elections results for Reg 4 and to illegally seize power. The statutory procedures were followed in nine regions to the satisfaction of all stakeholders,yet it was varied in Reg 4. There is no other conclusion than an attempt to rig the elections is in play.
We urge patience from the people of Guyana, our supporters to be calm, alert and await guidance from your party. Our democracy is in peril, but I have confidence that our judicial process will put it back on course with the statutory tabulation of the Reg 4 SOP's. I believe this is not a time for divisiveness or rhetoric which can harm the fabric of our democracy. I urge restraint.
The people of Guyana, particularly our supporters, are not alone in the defence of our electoral process. The international community and persons of all backgrounds at home are making their voices heard resoundingly in support of our collective desire for free and fair elections.
We are together in this struggle and I commit to you that we will not rest or waiver until your rights and votes in these elections are counted and represent your true will.

can't pull a fast one on us

Bumping this masterpiece

youtube.com/watch?v=dsgoMC1wHUE

2020 is gonna be our year fam

all its gonna take is one communist victory somewhere to bring us back

Which countries do we need to pay most attention to? Like, where do the comrades have the best odds?

anybody read Zak Cope? bout to make my way through The Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism.

@tilshehowell btw this is that polemic against Kardelj i told you about the other week, curious as to your thoughts on the critique of workers' self-management brought forth here

marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1978/yugoslavia/index.htm

always hard to say. remember what Lenin said, all the big socialist parties, the Second International, etc.; had their eyes on France, Germany, England, the modern industrial countries, thinking that capitalist development would usher in socialist revolution. but then it erupted in Russia, of all places, a semi-feudal peasant nation.

basically I'm saying itll be in the places we least expect lol. but right now I have my eyes on Haiti, the Donbass, Greece, Chile, the Phillipines, Iraq, and Lebanon. :word:

i'll probably be way off though.

I wouldn't deny Kardelj's ideas mostly because he was someone who was there from the beginning, from his partizan days he earned the privilege in the CP and later on even made somewhat better relations with the USSR. He followed the situation in Yugoslavia and thoroughly researched all of the aspects, tho I'd like to add that, in my opinion the only thing that could've saved that country would be if Tito brought a leader that will control the country after his death, it really just needed Tito 2.0.