JemmyWhen a "workers" party takes marching orders from foreign autocrats...
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Explanation: In the 1920s-1940s, most Communist (big C) parties in bourgeois democratic states followed the “Party line” as dictated by the Soviet Union, as a matter of solidarity and presenting a single, united front against capital and freeing the workers of the world, as one!
… yet all it ended up doing was discrediting Communist parties as bootlicks and sycophants for the ideologically incoherent foreign policy of the Soviet Union, especially under Stalin and during the early years of WW2. This culminated in the 1950s, with the Soviet suppression of the socialist revolution in Hungary by military force (including tanks) causing many Western Communists to decisively split from the Soviet Union - giving us the phrase ‘tankie’ for those who still supported totalitarian suppression of workers by the PEOPLE’S jackboot.
Turns out, taking your marching orders without question from a foreign power just makes you a catspaw of said foreign power’s interests. Accept allies and partners, not masters.
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Explanation: In the 1920s-1940s, most Communist (big C) parties in bourgeois democratic states followed the “Party line” as dictated by the Soviet Union, as a matter of solidarity and presenting a single, united front against capital and freeing the workers of the world, as one!
… yet all it ended up doing was discrediting Communist parties as bootlicks and sycophants for the ideologically incoherent foreign policy of the Soviet Union, especially under Stalin and during the early years of WW2. This culminated in the 1950s, with the Soviet suppression of the socialist revolution in Hungary by military force (including tanks) causing many Western Communists to decisively split from the Soviet Union - giving us the phrase ‘tankie’ for those who still supported totalitarian suppression of workers by the PEOPLE’S jackboot.
Turns out, taking your marching orders without question from a foreign power just makes you a catspaw of said foreign power’s interests. Accept allies and partners, not masters.
[off topic]
Two good novels dealing with Soviet spies at the beginning of WW2.
“Night Soldiers” and “Dark Star” both by Alan Furst. Dark Star is about a former Soviet soldier turned reported who is gradually eased into workign as an agent. Night Soldiers is about a young Bulgarian fisherman who is recruited after a Fascist mob kills his younger brother. Both are very atmospheric and neither reads like a typical spy novel.