Communisme

[Percalion]

nog nooit van gehoord, maar door wat ik lees op wikipedia vind ik 'm nu al leuk

[kaatd]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Percalion

nog nooit van gehoord, maar door wat ik lees op wikipedia vind ik 'm nu al leuk

Tot de jaren dertig is hij boeiend, daarna alleen maar grappig. Fantastisch verhelderend is zijn "Massapsychologie van het Fascisme" en zijn "Seksuele Revolutie". Een zeer grappig boek over hem is van Harry Mulish: "het sexuele bolwerk".

[tony p]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jonas Elossov

Trouwens, je kan ook niet alle slachtoffers van het stalinisme zomaar op de rug van een individu als stalin schuiven, dat is wat te simplistisch

Zie ook de mening van Fidel Castro:
http://marxists.org/history/cuba/arc...1992/06/03.htm

Q: Fidel, for most Latin American revolutionary leaders, the current crisis of socialism has a mastermind: Josef Stalin.

A: I believe Stalin made big mistakes but also showed great wisdom.

In my opinion, blaming Stalin for everything that occurred in the Soviet Union would be historical simplism, because no man by himself could have created certain conditions. It would be the same as giving Stalin all the credit for what the USSR once was. That is impossible! I believe that the efforts of millions and millions of heroic people contributed to the USSR's development and to its relevant role in the world in favor of hundreds of millions of people.

I have criticized Stalin for a lot of things. First of all, I criticized his violation of the legal framework.

I believe Stalin committed an enormous abuse of power. That is another conviction I have always had.

I feel that Stalin's agricultural policy did not develop a progressive process to socialize land. In my opinion, the land socialization process should have begun earlier and should have been gradually implemented. Because of its violent implementation, it had a very high economic and human cost in a very brief period of history.

I also feel that Stalin's policy prior to the war was totally erroneous. No one can deny that western powers promoted Hitler until he became a monster, a real threat. The terrible weakness shown by western powers before Hitler cannot be denied. This at encouraged Hitler's expansionism and Stalin's fear, which led Stalin to do something I will criticize all my life, because I believe that it was a flagrant violation of principles: seek peace with Hitler at any cost, stalling for time.

During our revolutionary life, during the relatively long history of the Cuban Revolution, we have never negotiated a single principle to gain time, or to obtain any practical advantage. Stalin fell for the famous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact at a time when Germans were already demanding the delivery of the Danzig Corridor.

I feel that, far from gaining time, the nonaggression pact reduced time, because the war broke out anyway. Then, in my opinion, he made another big mistake, because when Poland was being attacked, he sent troops to occupy that territory, which was disputed because it had a Ukrainian or Russian population, I am not sure.

I also believe that the little war against Finland was another terrible mistake, from the standpoint of principles and international law.

Stalin made a series of mistakes that were criticized by a large part of the world, and which placed Communists - who were great friends of the USSR - in a very difficult position by having to support each one of those episodes.

Since we are discussing this topic, I must tell you that I have never discussed it with any journalist (or on any other occasion, he added).

The things I mentioned are against principles and doctrine; they are even contrary to political wisdom. Although it is true that there was a period of one year and nine months from September 1939 to June 1941 during which the USSR could have rearmed itself, Hitler was the one who got stronger.

If Hitler had declared war on the USSR in 1939, the destruction would have been less than the destruction caused in 1941, and he would have suffered the same fate as Napoleon Bonaparte. With the people's participation in an irregular war, the USSR would have defeated Hitler.

Finally, Stalin's character, his terrible distrust of everything, made him commit several other mistakes: one of them was falling in the trap of German intrigue and conducting a terrible, bloody purge of the armed forces and practically beheading the Soviet Army on the eve of war.

Q: What do you believe were Stalin's merits?

A: He established unity in the Soviet Union. He consolidated what Lenin had begun: party unity. He gave the international revolutionary movement a new impetus. The USSR's industrialization was one of Stalin's wisest actions, and I believe it was a determining factor in the USSR's capacity to resist.

One of Stalin's - and the team that supported him - greatest merits was the plan to transfer the war industry and main strategic industries to Siberia and deep into Soviet territory.

I believe Stalin led the USSR well during the war. According to many generals, Zhukov and the most brilliant Soviet generals, Stalin played an important role in defending the USSR and in the war against Nazism. They all recognized it.

I think there should be an impartial analysis of Stalin. Blaming him for everything that happened would be historical simplism.

[Chipie]

Gisteren stierf, in alle stilte, een communistisch boegbeeld...

,Slager'' Rode Khmers overleden

Een van de wreedste leiders van de Rode Khmers is vrijdag in een militair hospitaal overleden.
Ta Mok (82) kreeg de bijnaam van de ,,slager''. Hij behoorde tot de voornaamste verantwoordelijken van het ultramaoïstische regime dat in 1975-1979 bijna twee miljoen Cambodjanen, een kwart van de bevolking, uitmoordde.

De wreedheden van de Rode Khmers, die in 1975 aan de macht kwamen, werden wereldwijd berucht door de film ,,The killing fields'' (1984).

Maar geen van de leiders van het terreurregime heeft ooit terecht gestaan. Pas volgend jaar moet een proces beginnen, onder gedeelde verantwoordelijkheid van de Verenigde Naties en Cambodja.

Bron: De Standaard van 22/7/2006

[Chipie]

Fidel Castro vedette op ,,volkerentop'' in Argentinië

Volgens de Cubaanse leider Fidel Castro ,,zal het imperialisme nog hoogstens vijftig jaar meegaan en zal de strijd niet met wapens, maar met ideeën uitgevochten worden''. Castro zei dat vrijdag in de Argentijnse stad Cordoba, waar hij drie uur lang voor een publiek van 20.000 mensen het woord voerde op de ,,top der volkeren'' in de marge van de 30ste top van Mercosur, de economische unie van Argentinië, Brazilië, Paraguay, Uruguay en Venezuela.
Castro die al 47 jaar aan de macht is in Cuba en in augustus 80 jaar wordt, trad op in zijn traditionele olijfgroene uniform. Hij bracht ook hulde aan zijn ,,buitengewone'' revolutionaire kameraad, Ernesto ,,Che'' Guevara, die een deel van zijn jeugd in Cordoba doorbracht. Het grootste deel van Castro's speech was, naar gewoonte, gericht tegen de Verenigde Staten.

http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Deta...MF22072006_005

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