Was the USSR communist?

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The Russian Revolution was the greatest event in history, with the working class and poor taking power into their own hands for the first time. In this talk, Keelan Kellegher will speak about the Stalinist degeneration of the USSR that led to its demise.
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@d4l3d Жыл бұрын

If this is original work, this kid is amazing.

@usayojim Жыл бұрын

It is. There are plenty more like him in Socialist Appeal and the International Marxist tendency too!

@derantiobskurant 9 ай бұрын

@@usayojim Never seen so many talented young Cadres like @ IMT. Let us never forget that Lenin once was long laughed at by the social revolutionaries for surrounding himself with "boys" because the Bolsheviks had such young members. He knew why - it was important to win over the youth and success, as so often, proves him right. This is another reason why I joined the German section of IMT - called der Funke, like Lenins Newspaper Iskra.

@dallaskenn 3 ай бұрын

He's a Goddamned Trot, that's what he is.

@0NEisN0THING Ай бұрын

@@derantiobskurant Solidarity from England comrade. You carry on the great work of the spartacus league, admired world wide by cadres. May you rise to a higher level, especially with such great minds within IMT and its leadership. Its that or the far right currents. Your fighting a historic battle comrade. Your hard work could save lives.

@christopherleary8168 8 ай бұрын

These young socialists are wonderful speakers. I have faith in Socialism.

@derantiobskurant 9 ай бұрын

What a successful lecture, comrade. Greetings from the German Section!

@tanujSE Жыл бұрын

I don't think it was communist as there was no new plan to eliminate the class relation and also the bureaucracy was degenerative force

@hasanyousaf1 Жыл бұрын

Great presentation comrade.

@RefurbishedPrototype Жыл бұрын

Starts @ 2:22

@JasonGoodfellow Жыл бұрын

Wow

@charleskesner1302 Ай бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for this discussion.

@jesseweideman4247 9 ай бұрын

We have to able to understand our failures as marxists and work to implement a true workers' state!!

@orangefoxxd6120 2 ай бұрын

Great stuff!!

@heldergoncalves2744 Жыл бұрын

WELL What to say about this lecture. Its just Clear Truthfull and Brilliant.

@user-iu2gb8ty5m Жыл бұрын

👍

@WorkingMan234 Жыл бұрын

Интересно

@minhng7208 6 ай бұрын

Samir Amin paraphrases “bureaucracy” as bourgois ideology

@andrewwilson711 10 ай бұрын

I like USSR shirt

@lordcharfield4529 3 ай бұрын

I do. Shame he’s blasphemed it’s glorious name and memory 🤬

@zachmorgan6982 2 ай бұрын

Funny...its almost like my idea of history is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than his...

@reversedragon3 Жыл бұрын

"it could not without the spreading of the revolution" but it did spread, there were several more workers' states and some of them are still standing

@oneandonly-oatmeal Жыл бұрын

preach! trots really out here tryna say ussr was "socialism in one country" when the ussr itself was already 15 different countries even before liberating multiple more 🥱

@saschahoupt6177 Жыл бұрын

Not until after World War two, and at that point the bureaucracy had already fully consolidated its power. And no, a classless society democratically controlled and planned by workers was not what existed in the USSR.

@jesseweideman4247 9 ай бұрын

Do you consider China a workers state? Hilarious....

@dallaskenn 3 ай бұрын

The USSR was socialist, not communist.

@anastasiakypreou2201 2 ай бұрын

Please check how socialism is defined by marxist theorists, you sound confused

@dallaskenn 2 ай бұрын

@@anastasiakypreou2201 That's it, Trot-troll. Socialism always fore-runs communism. Who's confused now?

@syndicalist-0 Жыл бұрын

Syndicalism is the only way.

@justinmathews8507 11 ай бұрын

Stalin would have loved him, but still purged him with everyone else.

@castronautical7744 7 ай бұрын

someone didn't watch the video.

@diabetusultrainstinct7737 Жыл бұрын

Stalinists did not believe that the USSR was on its way to communism. Stalin himself kept banging on about the final victory of socialism being when the world revolution is realised. Khrushchevite revisionism is not something that stalinists stand by

@slovenasimkaras_ztelegrame3287 10 ай бұрын

The problem is organization, too large of the organism like huge working class can't manage itself and stay in the same class, starts forming ruling working management of the party who gets more then rest of working class. State can't run factory or thousands of factories efficiently like 1 owner, cuz he's interested in profit & state is not, humans are selfish mamals. People start stealing stuff from working place as it was in state run USSR, so huge repression system must be in place to punish. Another thing is invocation. If communism is not in all planet so it's confined in lets say China, Russia land mass, but not all planet, so naturally natural growth limits will be reached of cloaed system & we know while expanding one can lower price at the expense of this growth, but when one reaches natural limits so only way is higher prices. Imagine 1000 factories, shops, malls, rest in a country so to build one more will mean overproduction so must go abroad but you can't go, cuz nobody allows, either war to expand or raise prices. Only way to get new stuff made is from profit. Imagine you manufacture a bike all the time, so after a while nobody will need your bike so everyone will have, how will then industry work? Must make new bike better, newer, so people want to buy. To make new bike factory needs investment, only investment can be done from past profit you got by selling that old bike everyone brought, so to make new one. This is problem in communism, cuz doesn't allow to grow prices as capitalist does. There's plenty more problems in communism that's unsolved & so can't function too large entity as global working class, & lack of knowledge & education too. People are just too stupid to understand economy.

@thebigsteaks8752 11 ай бұрын

Trot alert 🚨

@jesseweideman4247 9 ай бұрын

Red fash alert ⚠️

@borelespork4510 2 ай бұрын

Learn to read and understand Marx Engels Lenin and history too for that matter as your analysis of the Soviet Union dosn't match with any of them. It's always supriced me how the trotskiete retelling of Soviet hostory is so similar to that of the capitalists only difference is that trots make out Trotsky to be a messiah figure even though he was much of an opertunistic buerocrat lusting for power and influence as any one else in the post revolution USSR. At the end of the day it just feels like braindead arguments about transports where nothing matters unless X side wins. And that's not to mention the over exaggerations on historucal figures such as Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. It was workers that shaped history, not great men, and to say otherwise is an idealogical trap resulted from our current capitalist system. Please don't bastardize the legacy of the working class for your own political agenda. Your dogmas are not coherent with history and only serves to dilute marxism to the point where liberals can call themselves communists. Communism is not a sect that you join, it's about the things you learn and do.

@minhng7208 6 ай бұрын

Your criticism of Stalin is seemingly narrow and does not link to historical balckground. Just look at achievements under Stalin, even pro capitalist Russians acknowledge that

@joejjohnston 5 ай бұрын

I think Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the millions of Russians imprisoned under the soviet slave state would disagree.