Market Socialism's origins Jugoslavenski-Duh 2023-06-09 (Fri) 02:13:11 No. 13064
*1930s Yugoslav communist factional disputes*>Be some random Montenegrin communist. >Get thrown in Mitrovica prison by the royal government. >Share your seething hatred of the Yugoslav peasantry with other communists in that prison. >Sperg out at Andrija Hebrang for opposing your peasant-melting goals. >Legit just be the worst, but somehow you become the leader of a large faction. >MFW it includes Milovan Đilas and Aleksandr Ranković. >Tito sends you off to Moscow to get shot, but integrates your closest followers into the KPJ Politburo and gets influenced by them. >You may have been killed, but your ideas will outlive you for generations. >Your former followers continue your legacy, already in 1941 they are not only supporting confescation of upper, middle and lower peasantry's land and grain, but are actively burning down whole villages, turning them from neutrality to anti-communism. >MFW it's literally a repetition of war communism idiocy but applied in Yugoslavia. >Eventually the policy backfires so hard they are forced to dial it back a little bit and are punished by Tito. >MFW the punishment is just a stern talking down and your former followers (Ranković, Đilas, Kidrič, Milutinović) remain on their posts. >The party "compensates" for it's anti-peasant BS by bringing in "former" liberals into leadership positions in the partisan movement (Drago Marušič, Vladimir Nazor). >Eventually ww2 is over and the majority of the country gives it's full trust to Tito. >Immediately most of the party tries to expropriate from the peasantry again, right after a devestating world war. >Your former followers' actions get so extreme even ComInform look like Bukharinists by comparison. >Party members who oppose the hasty collectivzation are killed or jailed and labelled as "Ustaša/Četnik" "Stalinists". >MFW half of those purged weren't even stalinists, just old party veterans who werent completely devoted to Tito (Labud Kusovac, Dragotin Gustinčič, Ivo Marić, etc.). >The split with other EE communist parties turns Yugoslav diplomacy towards the west. >This includes partially privatizing the economy back, which is post-hoc justified as "workplace democracy". >Somehow your former followers convince the world that they were the "real communist moderates".
Anonymous 2023-06-11 (Sun) 21:34:52 No. 15427
>>13064 >y in 1941 they are not only supporting confescation of upper, middle and lower peasantry's land and grain, but are actively burning down whole villages, turning them from neutrality to anti-communism. i mean isn't the peasantry usually anti-communist because
1) they're not proles
2) they have different class interests
3) they are often beholden to traditionalist ideas like monarchy and loyalty to one's betters?
The question of the peasantry versus the proletariat goes back to the first international .
Anonymous 2023-06-12 (Mon) 13:21:30 No. 17858
>>15427 there's no peasantry left in Europe so this question has resolved itself there