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Sideblog of @loverboyxbutch but I'm more active on here. Here I yap about communism, politics, and Cuban revolution RPF ☭

I'm a Marxist-Leninist and anti-imperialist; some might call me a tankie. I'm also anti-reformist and anti- social democracy

Fidel Castro is my beloved and I love Che Guevara and Lenin also. I talk about Fidel and Che on here a lot, and Aleida March too (in another world she is my wife)

My chedel lore collection is here. Resources for studying Che, Fidel, and the Cuban revolution are here

Reading masterlist for communist education is here

RIP Michael Parenti, Leslie Feinberg and Anna Louise Strong, my favourite authors ♡

History is a love of mine, and topics of interest rn are the Cuban revolution, the Soviet Union (particularly Stalin's era) and the DPRK. I've yet to study the DPRK or Korean war in much depth, but I have extensive knowledge on the Cuban revolution because it's my favourite. Please ask me anything about the Cuban revolution

You don't have to be a communist or agree with all my politics to interact, but I won't tolerate hate or imperialistic sentiment. I'm happy to engage in constructive debate as long as you're respectful and speaking in good faith

Feel free to send me asks :)

#marxism leninism #communism #intro post #commieblr #yes this intro post is new

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evelynsara333

Romania wasn’t communist. It was a dictatorship

North Korea isn’t communist. it’s a dictatorship

The other good countries that actually showed what communism is were destroyed by capitalism and the USA. Like what’s going on in Cuba in this MODERN AGE and nobody is talking about it.

Ofc communism isn’t gonna work if the USA and capitalism still exist. Due to Cuba’s ‘evil communist” ideology made the literacy rate from <76% to 96%. Almost entirely ended poverty in the country before the USA screwed them over and much more

lesbianfidelcastro

It is ironic to be pro Cuba and anti North Korea at the same time, especially considering socialist Cuba and the Cuban revolutionaries have always been explicitly pro North Korea

Not to mention North Korean socialism has brought much of the same progress that Cuba's did, in literacy, living conditions, healthcare, etc

evelynsara333

I do understand your point but they still don’t let their people leave the country and has literal forced labor camps for anyone who tries to leave the country ofc I won’t support such a thing despite the government being socialist the people there have little so no rights of their autonomy

There’s a few contact creators who left North Korea and if they get caught they’d either get tortured or killed, I don’t think that’s a good regime at all. The difference between Cuba and North Korea is that Cuba won’t put their own people into labor camps just because they left their country. Sure North Korea does have free healthcare and high literacy rate of 100% but they don’t seem to care about the people if they’re throwing them in labor camps over something as simple as leaving the country without government permission

lesbianfidelcastro

Okay but that's just not true though. Ignoring how visas and passports pretty much function as "government permission" in all countries, North Koreans do leave the country, usually going to places like Russia and China

I recommend you watch this short documentary about North Koreans trapped in South Korea who wish to return home. The topic of freedom of movement of North Koreans is usually very heavily misrepresented in order to favour the US narrative, and the interviews here do a good job of challenging that narrative

zitongzi

Always is some fucking Yankee trying to claim us attrocity propaganda is actually true this time.

lesbianfidelcastro

Your frustration is 100% justified but in this case they were actually very willing to listen and educate themselves. Progress has been made!!

sadlilmathmajor

i love how @lesbianfidelcastro always tries to bridge the gaps with education and proof

a lot of internationalist thanks to you comrade for introducing this documentary to me as well!

lesbianfidelcastro

Thank you, comrade <3

Everyone has the capacity to learn, we should always uplift it

For intersectionality with colonialism and casteism:

- Orientalism, Edward Said

- Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said

- Can the Subaltern Speak, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak

- The Annihilation of Caste, Dr BR Ambedkar

I particularly like Gramsci as well:

- The Prison Notebooks

- The Southern Question

For feminist marxist works:

- Social Reproduction Theory, edited by Tithi Bhattacharya

- Anything by Angela Davis

- Anything by Arundhati Roy (would recommend The God of Small Things)

- Aranyer Adhikar (Right to the Forest), by Mahasweta Devi, about the fight by naxalites and Indian communists to protect land and tribal rights

I love how my comrades have come together for this. Thank you sm for these amazing contributions <3

lesbianfidelcastro

Does anyone know of any good books to learn about socialism in China, Vietnam, or Laos? It can be history or current analysis

newbornsocialistthing

Some recommendations I got from a Vietnamese communist:

-Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled Nation, which is from 2019 and focuses on the past few decades. It's not by a socialist, and the topic might make it seem kind of dubious, but it gives a pretty good overview of the ways the government can be responsive and address people's concerns

-Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World, from 2020. This covers several AES countries but includes Laos, Vietnam, & China. Quote from its intro: "The book argues that socialist constitutional change is progressive. The function of this constitutional change is to facilitate the active role of the party-state...in improving the material well-being of residents, in terms of their living conditions." I thought their chapter on Laos was especially good.

-A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary Vietnam, 1945-1965, which is from 2002 but it analyzes the intellectual/cultural/social radicalism of the Vietnamese revolution. It does a very good job of resisting the Orientalism you see in a lot of works that treat the revolution as nationalist first, socialist second, rather than also making a break with the past. Also uses a method that's increasingly common in studying the Chinese revolution, looking at the transformative emotional impact it had

-The Dragon's Underbelly: Dynamics and Dilemmas in Vietnam’s Economy and Politics - it collects several very recent articles, almost all by Vietnamese scholars and with a focus on economics. More of a hesitant recommendation, because it's pretty academic (even more than the others) and doesn't exactly take a socialist perspective, but lots of good info.

these are just the ones that were suggested to me when I asked about recommendations, hope at least some of them are helpful - personally I'd like to have more stuff by socialist authors about Vietnam. for China I know much more, but I'd have to think about what would be good for an introduction!

lesbianfidelcastro

Thank you so much this is perfect!!

Does anyone know of any good books to learn about socialism in China, Vietnam, or Laos? It can be history or current analysis

#yes this is for my reading masterlist but I also want to be more educated myself #communism #socialism #china #vietnam #laos

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#I like this because Fidel was so clingy with Che and tried to be with him as much as possible #fidel castro #che guevara #cuban revolution #chedel #fanart

lesbianfidelcastro

I know us Marxist-Leninists generally don't like Trotsky but that time he tried to use Stalin's introduction of the secret ballot to prove that he was a bureaucratic dictator is wild no matter what you think of the guy

lesbianfidelcastro

*Wokely* we should not let our people vote privately

I know us Marxist-Leninists generally don't like Trotsky but that time he tried to use Stalin's introduction of the secret ballot to prove that he was a bureaucratic dictator is wild no matter what you think of the guy

#stalin #trotsky

windbeckonsthroughtheleaves

Another Fidel, this time wearing his iconic glasses.

#fidel castro #cuban revolution

Halo, saw the post about the ML books list, I would like to suggest some readings

-The Manifest of the comunist party

-Critique of the Gotha program

-State and revolution

-Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism

-on the two lines in the revolution

-foundation of leninism

-on authority

-what is to be done

In no particular order, I just think this are some of the auto includes

Some of these I've already got, but the others I will add! Thank you sm comrade :)

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Hi!

I just read https://www.tumblr.com/lesbianfidelcastro/821770533814321152/im-going-to-make-a-reading-resource-list-for?source=share this post of yours and want to contribute a bit.

While i do not have _a_ book to recommend, I have one resource that helped me tons with educating myself on ML class organizing, and it is the youtube channel of ML historian lan Neves. He is Brazilian (cuz i am too), so his videos are all in Portuguese, but this one specifically https://youtu.be/cg5winGpx80?si=zVEOjuPpzFrHSB54 has English subtitles and works super well as a basic intro to the subject. He has an updated (although 3h long,) glossary version of that video (https://youtu.beocHvPU27E4Asi=9Roq71YQEyYMqaZf) which unfortunately as of now doesn't have any translation, but what it has is a gnarly reading list that you can find here: https://soberana.tv/docs/glossario.pdf. The list is also in Portuguese, but it is so well organized that imo it can be super easily understood in English. I think it could be of help!

I want to preface tho that while his work is beyond phenomenal in the task of occupying the internet space with radical leftist education, I do am critical a bit (and don't agree fully with) the strategies of the vanguard org (Soberana.tv) he is a part of. This isn't any deal-breaker (for me at least), just some necessary context to carry all the while.

And that's all! I hope to be of help! Loved your idea to also let your blog be have public resources 💛

Many internationalist thanks,

Cyn

Thank you so much for your contributions, I'll be sure to add them :)

There is a particular kind of Che Guevara fan that I find exceedingly insufferable, and those are the people that openly praise Che and his politics while being anti-Stalin and anti-'Stalinist'

Like really? You hate Stalin's politics but you like Che of all people? Che who became a communist because of Stalin? Che who said "I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated”

That Che?

Consider also:

"In the so-called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of Papa Stalin and nobody can tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin." - Che

#che guevara #stalin #communism #marxinism leninism

evelynsara333

Romania wasn’t communist. It was a dictatorship

North Korea isn’t communist. it’s a dictatorship

The other good countries that actually showed what communism is were destroyed by capitalism and the USA. Like what’s going on in Cuba in this MODERN AGE and nobody is talking about it.

Ofc communism isn’t gonna work if the USA and capitalism still exist. Due to Cuba’s ‘evil communist” ideology made the literacy rate from <76% to 96%. Almost entirely ended poverty in the country before the USA screwed them over and much more

lesbianfidelcastro

It is ironic to be pro Cuba and anti North Korea at the same time, especially considering socialist Cuba and the Cuban revolutionaries have always been explicitly pro North Korea

Not to mention North Korean socialism has brought much of the same progress that Cuba's did, in literacy, living conditions, healthcare, etc

evelynsara333

I do understand your point but they still don’t let their people leave the country and has literal forced labor camps for anyone who tries to leave the country ofc I won’t support such a thing despite the government being socialist the people there have little so no rights of their autonomy

There’s a few contact creators who left North Korea and if they get caught they’d either get tortured or killed, I don’t think that’s a good regime at all. The difference between Cuba and North Korea is that Cuba won’t put their own people into labor camps just because they left their country. Sure North Korea does have free healthcare and high literacy rate of 100% but they don’t seem to care about the people if they’re throwing them in labor camps over something as simple as leaving the country without government permission

lesbianfidelcastro

Okay but that's just not true though. Ignoring how visas and passports pretty much function as "government permission" in all countries, North Koreans do leave the country, usually going to places like Russia and China

I recommend you watch this short documentary about North Koreans trapped in South Korea who wish to return home. The topic of freedom of movement of North Koreans is usually very heavily misrepresented in order to favour the US narrative, and the interviews here do a good job of challenging that narrative

zitongzi

Always is some fucking Yankee trying to claim us attrocity propaganda is actually true this time.

lesbianfidelcastro

Your frustration is 100% justified but in this case they were actually very willing to listen and educate themselves. Progress has been made!!

the-nyanguard-party

tumblr users love the immigrant reserve army of labor

the-nyanguard-party

there is just a mass of potentual immigrants floating in the void available at all times for no reason in particular whose purpose in life is to enthusiastically supplement your workforce

the-nyanguard-party

idk i just keep thinking about the whole "oh cuba should stop encouraging people to have kids because that's fascist and instead import immigrants" and it also reminds me of the similar sentiment of "the reason anti-immigrant sentiment is bad is because we need immigrants as a cheap workforce to do the jobs nobody wants to do" and idk maybe I'm going insane

the-nyanguard-party

it's not even that it would be Bad for Cuba to receive more immigrants if they could, which, there are certain factors why that might be difficult, and that's part of my point as well. and of course the shit the US and Europe and Australia do to "control immigration" is Bad. it's just like idk how to put it, i guess that it's a very Imperial Core view of things

For the first time I directly tested my ability to subtly discuss communist ideas with an anti-communist (my father) and I have to say, I am pretty proud that I managed to make an argument in favour of socialism and dictatorship of the proletariat to a Pauline Hanson voter without him realising I'm a communist

He is petite bourgeois so no argument will change his fundamental class interests, but I find it useful to know how to communicate these ideas to someone that has grown up in a virulently anti communist and reactionary environment

Many reactionary people will shut down the moment they hear words like communism, so it can be good to know how to use the language and understanding of the masses to articulate your politics

In this case I spoke about how we should not choose which wealthy politician should rule us, we should rule ourselves. And I talked about "democratising the economy and workplaces", about how the current structure of companies are like dictatorships

I'm going to continue to find ways to communicate communist politics to reactionary and/or uneducated people but for the time this has inspired me

Edit: it would seem that this post has been interpreted as me advocating for pretending to not be communist, that was not the point at all and I absolutely don’t think we should lie

#communism #socialism #politics

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evelynsara333

Romania wasn’t communist. It was a dictatorship

North Korea isn’t communist. it’s a dictatorship

The other good countries that actually showed what communism is were destroyed by capitalism and the USA. Like what’s going on in Cuba in this MODERN AGE and nobody is talking about it.

Ofc communism isn’t gonna work if the USA and capitalism still exist. Due to Cuba’s ‘evil communist” ideology made the literacy rate from <76% to 96%. Almost entirely ended poverty in the country before the USA screwed them over and much more

lesbianfidelcastro

It is ironic to be pro Cuba and anti North Korea at the same time, especially considering socialist Cuba and the Cuban revolutionaries have always been explicitly pro North Korea

Not to mention North Korean socialism has brought much of the same progress that Cuba's did, in literacy, living conditions, healthcare, etc

evelynsara333

I do understand your point but they still don’t let their people leave the country and has literal forced labor camps for anyone who tries to leave the country ofc I won’t support such a thing despite the government being socialist the people there have little so no rights of their autonomy

There’s a few contact creators who left North Korea and if they get caught they’d either get tortured or killed, I don’t think that’s a good regime at all. The difference between Cuba and North Korea is that Cuba won’t put their own people into labor camps just because they left their country. Sure North Korea does have free healthcare and high literacy rate of 100% but they don’t seem to care about the people if they’re throwing them in labor camps over something as simple as leaving the country without government permission

lesbianfidelcastro

Okay but that's just not true though. Ignoring how visas and passports pretty much function as "government permission" in all countries, North Koreans do leave the country, usually going to places like Russia and China

I recommend you watch this short documentary about North Koreans trapped in South Korea who wish to return home. The topic of freedom of movement of North Koreans is usually very heavily misrepresented in order to favour the US narrative, and the interviews here do a good job of challenging that narrative

☆ lesbianfidelcastro's reading masterlist for those interested in learning about communist theory, political analysis, and history ☆

note: this is a collaborative effort, and I have not personally read all of these books in their entirety; you are free to send suggestions

there will be overlap in the topics, but I've put the books into categories that may be expanded as the list grows

General theory

The Principles of Communism - Engels

What Is To Be Done? - Lenin

The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels

Wage-Labour and Capital - Marx

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin

The State and Revolution - Lenin

Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin

The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State - Engels

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Engels

The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism - Marta Harnecker

Critique of the Gotha Programme - Marx

On Authority - Engels

On the Two Lines in the Revolution - Lenin

Foundations of Leninism - Stalin

Combat Liberalism - Mao

Prison Notebooks - Gramsci

Modern political analysis and/or critique

Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media - Michael Parenti

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? - Gabriel Rockhill

Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World - Ngoc Son Bui

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution - Vincent Bevins

Cuba

Fidel Castro: My Life - Fidel Castro & Ignacio Ramonet

Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba - Leslie Feinberg

Che Guevara Reader

Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba - Keith Bolender

The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade - Salim Lamrani

The Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union

The Stalin Era - Anna Louise Strong

Democracy and Dictatorship in the Soviet Union - Anna Louise Strong

Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend - Domenico Losurdo

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Inside North Korea: An Eye-Witness Report - Anna Louise Strong

Vietnam

A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary Vietnam, 1945-1965 - Kim N.B. Ninh

India

The Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar

Capitalism: A Ghost Story - Arundhati Roy

The Cold War and 20th century

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism - Michael Parenti

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World - Vincent Bevins

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II - William Blum

Marxist feminism and queer liberation

Social Reproduction Theory - Tithi Bhattacharya

Transgender Liberation: A movement whose time has come - Leslie Feinberg

The Social Basis of the Woman Question - Alexandra Kollontai

Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis (an intersectional analysis so it goes far beyond just feminism)

Race, colonialism and imperialism

Orientalism - Edward Said

Culture and Imperialism - Edward Said

Can the Subaltern Speak? - G.C. Spivak

Riding the Wave: Sweden's Integration Into the Imperialist World System - Torkil Lauesen

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

Video and audio resources

Ian Neves on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5winGpx80

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