Edit: I’m from the Global South, I should’ve clarified that on the post. The lesson has been learned.
Many leftist movements, legit or not, call themselves either Trotskyist or Maoist and keep dissing Stalin for his “socialism in one state” policy and “ruining” Comintern and Deng Xiaoping for his “liberal” policies.
I want to know what they are trying to do by distancing themselves from the USSR and PRC while fetishizing Cuba and Vietnam—you’ll only hear them talking about the Vietnam War, btw—and following either the guy who lost the power struggle or a literal Marxist-Leninist who supported one of the refused countries and founding the other.
Well, reading about COINTELPRO operation helps to understand what is their goal:
As for either Trotskyists And Maoists fetishizing Cuba, I had a complete opposite experience with them where they denounce Cuba as “not socialist” or a “failed revolution”. Even Ho Chi Minh wrote about Trotskyists here -> https://espressostalinist.com/2013/12/31/vietnam-trotskyism-three-letters-from-ho-chi-minh/
I’ll read the words of Uncle Ho!
For the Trots and MLMs, as I said in another reply, this has to do with regional difference.
Being next to the USSR and other Eastern Bloc countries as an imperialist puppet regime must take its toll on the people. And the founding principles of the country had anti-communism in them (communism must be crushed wherever it is seen.)
As for Cuba and Vietnam, they were in similar conditions to us. They succeeded; we failed.
You didn’t fail. You just haven’t succeeded yet.
Being a sleeper agent is the best tactic for now for us. The current material conditions are too anti-communist for us to do anything meaningful.
Thanks for the article and introducing me to espresso stalinist! Been looking for more blog type sites to read.