I’m a bit perplexed by this as well, but I’m always up for learning and better understanding.

Self determination is not a valid argument if the individuals who want to do that are fascists. Inevitably, you must then ask “self-determination at the expense of who?”

If you have legitimate critique of this, than please share. I’m interested in other perspectives, especially any Hungarian sources.

We are consistently right

No. There are many examples of Marxism miscalculating and failing to adapt. The point of this post is not “anarchists wrong”, it is to clearly outline a historical event so it can be properly discussed and understood.

Accepting Capitalist and Imperialist propaganda as events where Marxism failed only weakens our ability to adequately critique, study, and build upon socialist theory.

If the USSR had been consistently right, it would still be here. It is not. We must all learn from those missteps so we do not repeat them.

With that said, The USSR combatting Hungarian Fascists and halting the beginnings of another antisemitic genocide is an event where the Soviets succeeded.

It was also used as a wedge to turn Russian Anarchists against the Soviet Union. Deeply fucked event.

Yes, I tried to clean it up a bit and will probably come back to it.

His writing was great, although somewhat sectarian, which isn’t surprising given he is an avowed Stalinist hah

Of all the things Kruschev would do after Stalins death that Stalin should’ve shot him for - running tanks into Hungary was absolutely correct

The Communists who sided with tanks going into Hungary was how Communists earned the moniker “Tankie”

Yet 50 years later it’s revealed that MI6 were training the rebels :shrug-outta-hecks:

“Tankie” should unironically be worn with pride in the fact “tankies” were absolutely correct in characterising the uprising as a semi-fascist counter-revolution (doors of jews and Communists were marked by pogroms during it) that needed to be put down

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mi6-trained-rebels-to-fight-soviets-in-hungarian-revolt-1359599.html

Some of the weapons used were American, and others almost certainly British. Mr Smith says MI6 and the CIA had buried arms caches in the woods around Prague and Budapest for use by “stay-behind” parties or fifth columnists in case of war. Additional: The Truth About Hungary is a brilliant and quite short book worth reading. Published in 1957 it basically set out the character of the protests as semi-fascist and supported by the imperialist powers. Basically everything that was dismissed as Communist propaganda but has now been confirmed by the Western press. People seem to forget that hungary only a 11 years previously was a fascist state allied with the Nazis and Left Anticommunists have continually tried to portray the uprising as a “socialist uprising but with a more human face”

https://espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/the-truth-about-hungary.pdf

:stupidpol:

“this will show those pesky tankie anarkiddies!”