Lenin: When the working class has learned how to defend the state system against the anarchy of small ownership, when it has learned to organise large-scale production on a national scale, along state capitalist lines, it will hold, if I may use the expression, all the trump cards, and the consolidation of socialism will be assured. In the first place, đđđ€đŁđ€đąđđđđĄđĄđź, state capitalism is immeasurably superior to our present economic system. In the second place, there is nothing terrible in it for Soviet power, for the Soviet state is a state in which the power of the workers and the poor is assured. The âLeft Communistsâ failed to understand these unquestionable truths, which, of course, a âLeft Socialist-Revolutionaryâ, who cannot connect any ideas on political economy in his head in general, will never understand, but which every Marxist đąđȘđšđ© admit. It is not even worth while arguing with a Left Socialist-Revolutionary. It is enough to point to him as a ârepulsive exampleâ of a windbag. But the âLeft Communistsâ must be argued with because it is Marxists who are making a mistake, and an analysis of their mistake will help the đŹđ€đ§đ đđŁđ đđĄđđšđš to find the true road. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6005
Lenin: (T)he following discovery made by the âLeft Communistsâ will provoke nothing short of Homeric laughter. According to them, under the âBolshevik deviation to the rightâ the Soviet Republic is threatened with âevolution towards state capitalismâ. Thirdly, in making a bugbear of âstate capitalismâ, they betray their failure to understand that the Soviet state differs from the bourgeois state economically. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6006
Enver Hoxha: N. Khrushchev, slandering our Party at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and crudely interfering with our domestic affairs, said that the Albanian leaders were against the criticism of Stalin's personality cult because the personality cult methods are allegedly thriving in our Party, that terror and injustice are allegedly reigning in Albania. We shall not stop here to reject these slanders, but the fact that their author has fallen so low as to mobilize the public opinion against our Party using such "arguments" borrowed from the most rabid enemies of socialism and communism, shows his dark aims. It is evident that by linking at the 22nd Congress his unsubstantiated attacks on the Party of Labor of Albania with his "fight against Stalin's cult and the anti-party group", N. Khrushchev aimed at showing the "analogy" between the alleged "Albanian Stalinism" and the "epoch of the Stalinist crimes" in the Soviet Union, in order to create in this way the "atmosphere" he needed at the Congress and in the world public opinion to make his slanders more credible. The Party of Labor of Albania has always taken and continues to take account of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism concerning the role of the masses, classes, party and leaders. It has always considered and continues to consider the manifestation of the personality cult as phenomenon alien to Marxism-Leninism, harmful to a communist and workers' party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6007
Heads Up For Possible Outage
A reminder that I'm located in the US, and more particularly in Texas and this is a server run out of my home.
With the massive freeze incoming this weekend, there is a decent chance of a significant and extended power outage (Texas has a notoriously awful and poorly managed power grid, notably run completely separate from the rest of the country).
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