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[hazeltongzhi]

Hi Hazel! I'm back for my bi-weekly questions 🥹

I have been seeing the word "leftcom" thrown around, and I'm not particularly sure what it means? This is alongside the assertion that Maoists are more similar to Trotskyists than Stalinists. My question is where Stalin and Mao's ideologies and practices generally diverged? I'm not as well read on their individual practices as I'd like to be, and was hoping you might be able to suggest a source that would be helpful to learn more? I dared to google it and the top results were just comparing them to Hitler, so not particularly helpful😀👍

As always, thank you for your time! 🙏

As usual, google is basically useless for anything other than an imperialist, bourgeois perspective.

Leftcoms (left-communists, as Lenin put it originally) generally refer to the tendency of certain leftists who criticize actually existing communist/socialist movements from a left-wing angle. This tendency are very dogmatic as a defining trait, preferring to stick to written theory than to adapting theory to the concrete conditions facing a movement. In Lenin's original pamphlet talking about leftcoms, he discusses how theory ran into the concrete conditions in russia and how the Bolsheviks had to then make compromises to survive and ultimately win. The main two contentions he talks about were the Bolsheviks' participation in the parliament, and the brest-litovsk treaty. I think the biggest point to take away from it, other than the utilization of parliaments as a tactic of many, is that "there are compromises and compromises".

As for how Stalin and Mao's theory and practice differed, I can't say entirely for certain, but differences between how Stalin and the comintern wanted the Chinese communists to unite with the KMT versus Mao recognizing that there was no compromise with the KMT (something trotsky happened to agree with) could be a start. Another difference could be Stalin's focus on industrialization versus Mao's focus on the rural peasantry, which is more of a benign difference and reflects each respective nations material conditions rather than a definitive ideological split. For what to look into, new democracy and mass line, and for Stalin, "Foundations of Leninism" might be a good look.

I don't have much to say about whether maoists are more like troskyists or not. I suppose, the only similarity is that every maoist I've talked to IRL has had something different to say about what maoism is. My own differences with maoists can more or less be summarized as "there are compromises and there are compromises".

At least they're more scientific than the anarchists.

[mochipong]

You are my sweetest downfall

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My art for the Timeless: 2024 ranwan calender zine on Twitter

[le-roi-baleine]

I really love the results.

(I’ll have more Mey Rin coming 😈 sebamey enjoyer just wait a bit)

Ref

[owlmaya]

one more 2ha gotcha prompt – txj/chu feinyan for anon! (@2haaction)

aka txj expering the average cat owner’s struggles on the one (1) day of the month he leaves his bedchambers

[forwantofacalling]

this is how book 3 went right

[kaya9q]

[bihastuff]

I just know that soma dragged Ciel so they can take the picture together

[tomomoke]

The Husky and his Shyzun Cat

[t-taxiansgf]

official art from 墙头儿儿 for bookuu

[quesophiladelphia]

ranwan comic ranwan comic !! on todays episode of how can my shizun be this cute…

[geoqeka]

ranwan with reference "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" by Repin

i love this scene so much

[camiix27]

that one ref but fem ranwan + lingerie because cwn looks good in lingerie

[sansan9]

[itsthayzinha]

It was the ambition of a wolf. it was also the ambition of a prodigal son who would turn around and bear the guilt and the sin. However, even so, he was unwilling to give up. It was something that was selfish, despairing, passionate and longing.

Love you

[owlmaya]

nyanning/mo ran for anon! (another 2ha g4g prompt @2haaction)

my cat does this to me every day and it hurts so bad (my reaction is the same as mo ran’s anyway)

[itzitxou]

Adult and young Mo Ran sketches from this month 💙 I love him so much.