Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "George Orwell was a terrible human being" video.

Basically the reason this guy goes after Orwell is because he told the truth about the Stalinist betrayal of the Spanish revolution "Homage to Catalonia". Stalin of course also entered into a non aggression pact with Hitler. Seems that Hakim forgets about that.
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@notarealAlbanian Stalin agreed to carve up Poland with Hitler and couldn't believe that Hitler would break his word and invade. After the ultra left policy were Social Democrats were social fascists he swung wildly right with the antifascists' popular front with bourgeois liberals. The American CP became the best strikebreakers for Democratic Imperialism durring the war. With the end of the war the Democratic Imperialist quickly turned on the CP strikebreakers sending them to prison. Stalin basically was a class collaborationist selling out the working class in other countries with the hope that the Democratic Imperialist would allow peaceful co existence.
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@MickyD2025 Marxist theory is about the of social forces and class in society. Stalin and Trotsky came to represent contending forces after the revolution and the period that followed one a conservative one lead by Stalin that was tired of the revolutionary perspective of Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders. and Trotsky who wanted to continue the communist course and perspective of Marx and Lenin of world revolution. Bukharin wrote and Stalin signed on to the theory of building socialism in one country. Stalin was a bureaucrat with a crude interpretation of Marx whose followers would end up seeking advice from Milton Freedman on how to remake the Soviet Economy. The cynical Friedman basically told them you need to turn everything into a giant tag sale and issue saleable share of industry to make the workers true owners and open the market to foreign goods and capitalist investment. Industries were shut down as the economy collapsed and the workers sold their shares to new capitalist oligarchs who imported cheap foreign goods and purchased state industries for a song and a dance. Afterwards the cynical Friedman said well its not a "real capitalism with "Democracy" but a crony capitalism.
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@MickyD2025 Well we are further along than Das Kapital because we have the real experience of both the Russian and Cuban revolution. A number of books are published by Pathfinder Press. The Stalinists found themselves falsifying history spreading all kinds of vicious lies about any and all of their political opponents.
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@Bredafromdejungule You seem to forget that when the Red army was at the Gates of Warsaw after the revolution that Stalin disobey orders to move his troops up. Stalin had to suppress his own pamphlet "On the National Question." Because it didn't fit with the Russification policy adopted along with Socialism in One country. He had whole nationalities labeled as criminals and traitors deported and sent off to the GULAG. Much like Mao and other Stalinist fools you think pollical power grows out of the barrel of a gun. We have to be beaten with a club in order to accept your idea of Socialism.
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