John Bachtell, former national committee chairperson of CPUSA, continues the party’s decades long tradition of making shit up to discredit the left’s greatest accomplishments. Liberals hate that Stalin and the greater communist movement destroyed the independence of Ukraine’s ruling class and brought an end to the centuries of antisemitic violence they used to preserve their power.
SMDH my dickhead.
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Not really. It was common after 1956. Even Sankara said anti-Stalin things and John Bachtell, I believe, is from that era.
Huge difference between just criticising Stalin and endorsing “holodomor”, literal nazi propaganda. Or calling the relationship the soviets had with ukraine “colonialism”.
It absolutely reeks.
I’m aware, and John Bachtell has gotten into trouble for making these sorts of comment; including almost getting expelled on at least one particular occasion by Joe Sims and the gang.
I surmise that, at least since the 70s/80s era, he was never really a fan of Stalin, since the general opinion of the Stalin years was fuzzy during that era, and after 1991 he started to believe a lot of things from the mainstream media.
It should be noted that the main Twitter account discounts the “Holodomor.”
This is precisely what I’m getting at with the ““communist”” part and my pointing out how sus it is. This isn’t the mindset or behaviour of someone without brainworms, and it stinks of anticommunism if anything. I wouldn’t trust this guy with anything important.
If you took that to be me attacking the party, it’s not. This is just something that needs to be fought and cleared out.
I can’t say much, all I can say is the years of FBI surveillance and ostracism have been hard, and I imagine that John Bachtell has been reprimanded before for this behavior and there’s a good reason why he was ousted from leadership.
I assure you, we’re no stranger to, say, fighting PatSocs, for example, and we’ll fight other internal battles as well (though the PatSocs are more an example of interloping entryists from outside).