I wonder how much of the far left developed naturally and how much due to the efforts of the Soviet Union
@orekix Yeah, I don't think they were THAT effective with their efforts (same with western propaganda). I'm not sure how would you even measure it.
Lot of western leftist became quite disillusioned with it in the 1930's after information about the purges etc came out.
I remember reading some text from the US Communist party from the 1920's to use "the struggle of the negro" to strengthen their position, but I can't find it. Do you know about something like that or am I having a stroke?
Eugene Debs had some stuff on 'Negro Question' earlier too
@orekix Interesting, but I don't think that's it.
@orekix Funny thing about this pamphlet is that the capitalists also improved the life of "the negro"
https://fee.org/articles/when-sears-used-the-market-to-combat-jim-crow/
>Lot of western leftist became quite disillusioned with it in the 1930's after information about the purges etc came out.
if only you knew how bad things really are
>Confronted by the undeniable truth of Stalinism, they[The Frankfurt School] allowed themselves to draw an even more pessimistic conclusion. Every society on the Western model, regardless of its actual ideology or the character of its rulers, advances inevitably to the type of bleak totalitarianism made vivid in George Orwell’s 1984.* Wherever soulless reason reigns, they asserted, tyranny inevitably takes root.
Tbh I think the October Revolution was more influential for the rest of the world than the support the Soviet Union provided, the Soviet Union did publish important works of Marx that were not available beforehand, which would be used by other marxists outside to criticize them w