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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ebert used the freikorps to break the KPD. Now, suppose a Dem or a DS chooses to join a picket line or demonstration alongside revolutionaries. They probably won't be pushed left. I'll still debate with them all day.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you surprised that the man who fought in the POUM in Spain, watched the Stalinist CP betray the Republic, wrote Animal Farm and 1984 would not do everything possible to expose Stalinists?

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only time he reduced anything by 900%. Good to see you in my feed.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a cash grab of public funds for private wealth. Mars is a huge Ponzi scam, but it does have a strategic goal. Musk is establishing a vertically aligned information monopoly designed to make AI extraterrestrial, controlled by him alone.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lenin and Trotsky both saw the Brest-Litovsk debate as a tactical choice to preserve the revolution, not a test of faith. The dispute wasn't over principle, but timing and reading the international working class. Calling it a betrayal misunderstands how real Bolshevik democracy actually worked.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Many sects degenerated into purity tests, but Trotsky’s core insight was real: victory required spreading the revolution internationally, not building "socialism in one country." The problem was Stalinism crushing workers' democracy, not Marxism itself—sectarianism stems from isolation, not theory.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Many abandoned Marxism, but Trotskyism didn't yield neoconservatism. Max Shachtman's camp drifted right through Cold War reformism, while neocons like Irving Kristol were ex-Trotskyists who explicitly rejected Marxism for imperialism and free-market capitalism. It was betrayal, not continuation.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Historical materialism and dialectics work through contradictions: Stalin’s bureaucracy set out to build "socialism in one country," but its headlong drive for forced industrialization actually laid the foundation for state capitalism instead. Same with the Chinese CP.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"But to overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and establish that of the proletariat in a single country is still not to assure the complete victory of Socialism." Joseph Stalin. From God's lips to your ears, my dear tankies.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had me right up until "We can achieve socialism in one country. In other countries, capitalists will still exist." Now, those capitalists will do what, exactly, in the face of an existential threat to their power?

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Appropriating the means of production is ethical.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Drag out the war? The Russians are occupying around 20% of Ukraine. I guess Putin would accept 25%. 4 oblasts. Seems fair. Can I have 25% of your apartment?

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you access BlueSky or Substack in the DPRK? By the way, that is not to argue that anything currently happening in the US as mentioned in the article is not to be criticized. The commodification of everything in the US, including health and education, is an inditement of the system.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As for Putin making oligarchs subservient to the state, that's another misrepresentation. The oligarchs are subservient to Putin. He made them and he breaks them if they show any disloyalty to him.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I listened to the whole apologia. "Sanctions since 2022" and "left the neo-liberalism world order" are stated completely out of the context of Russia's invasion on Ukraine. Even after that, Russia was still trading energy resources with the west until Russia was thrown out.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Electing representatives who manage things "for" workers isn't worker control but representative bureaucracy. Real workers' control means direct power through recallable councils running workplaces daily. Without continuous democratic power from below, there is no socialism.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You miss Marx’s core point: state ownership alone isn't socialism. If the state controls the MOP but workers don't democratically control the state, it’s not a "workers' state"—it’s state capitalism. Genuine socialism requires direct worker control from below, not bureaucratic rule.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Liberalism is one of the tools the boss class use to distract from their rapacious exploitation of workers' labour. So is religion, so is conservatism, so is nationalism, so is sexism, so are culture wars, so is media; so is everything existing as a result of the bourgeoisie's cultural hegemony.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right. So what's Plan B, C, D, E.... ?

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

State Capitalism?! Let's go down that road. Okay, so now Putin stands in the M-L tradition? He is bringing the oligarchs to heel? I suppose the next step is to claim he's a communist and the invasion of Ukraine was his attempt to kick start an international socialist revolution.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stalinist distortion. Hungary 1956 was a genuine working-class revolution driven by spontaneous workers' councils, not a CIA counterrevolution. Russian tanks crushed socialist self-management.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's corporate welfare and massive government subsidies. It's not rigging the system Secretary Reich; it is the system. What would be a fair amount of corporate exploitation of workers, in your opinion? The "system" (capitalism) needs to be changed.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Women raised the bar and men crashed into it, as far as I can tell.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Has he deliberately cut his hair to look good in a stahlhelm?

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ask them 2 questions: How will the system change itself? Why would the system change itself? Those will open up the contradictions in the "well-meaning" Liberal's analysis of the "system".

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trotsky rejected state capitalism in 1936 seeing Stalinism as temporary. But historical materialism shows the USSR was bound to global capital accumulation and arms racing. The bureaucracy became a collective capitalist class; state capitalism was the underlying reality Trotsky missed. Only human.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trotsky’s method was dynamic, but treating Stalinism as a temporary aberration missed reality. The ruling bureaucracy extracted surplus value and accumulated capital via global arms competition. State capitalism isn't a betrayal of Marxism; it’s applying classical historical materialism.

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The peoples of the world will pay for the historic crime of reformism with new wars and revolutions." We both know Marx was right, but from where the criticism of Trotsky?

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Carlos Gramsci @carlosgramsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"If in 1918 the Soc Dems of Germany had employed the power imposed upon them by the workers for a socialist revolution, and not for the rescue of capitalism, it is easy to see on the basis of the Russian experience what unconquerable economic power would be possessed today by a socialist bloc." LT

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