Put aside any issue you have with the feasibility or the wanton crimes against humanity.
Are there any leading communists you grudgingly respect or admire?
I respect that Castro lead about a dozen men onto an island and managed to overthrow an american backed dictatorship.
Zizek is the only respectable communist.
>>1076962
Tito, because it was only through his sheer force of will that the Baltic countries stayed together and prospered.
Also telling Stalin to fuck off and go a third way.
>>1076982
Blah, BALKANs
>>1076962
Stalin turned Russia from a backwater rural country to an industrial powerhouse that defeated the German War machine. He was brutal but Russia needed brutal.
>>1076982
This. If only he had a good successor, UGOslav might actually end up best socialists, I mean communists.
>I respect that Castro lead about a dozen men onto an island and managed to overthrow an american backed dictatorship.
Castro was not a communist during that time, he only affiliated with the Soviets later on out of necessity created by the American embargo. He was basically a third positionist / fascist significantly influenced by populist politician Eduardo Chibas.
Immidiately after the revolution, the Communist Party of Cuba even sent memos to the USSR saying that Castro might be a CIA agent.
I can overlook Stalin's atrocities and respect him.
>>1076962
I respect Che because he was very handsome (no homo) and because he was brave and idealistic to a fault.
>>1076982
this
People like Tito are one of a kind. Benevolent dictatorship can have the most tremendous effect on a country (or a union of countries in yugoslavia's case) but all that has been built is destroyed when the architect and visionary dies, with nearly no historical exceptions.
>>1076962
Stalin was a badass motherfucker. He BTFO the Jews and sent homosexuals and other decadent degenerates into the gulags. Truly a traitor to the revolution, and this was a good thing.
>>1076962
I wonder what these guys are saying to each other in this picture. "Damnit Mao, I told you not to bring Egg Drop soup, I hate this shit" 'Well, Stalin sure likes it. Something about cracking eggs always gets him'.
I respect Mao for refusing to be cucked by Khrushchev. I respect Deng for dealing with the mess left by Mao & co.
>>1076962
Thomas Sankara for not being corrupted by power. Too bad he was betrayed by compaore.
Pretty much all the commie military leaders that waged insurgencies and won. It takes a pair of brass balls to do something like that.
>>1076962
All of them, m8.
Communism is the big dogs biscuit.
>>1076962
I respect Mao for toughing it out in the long march and for some of his earlier decisions that brought about better hygiene and womens rights.
That's about it.
>>1079468
>toughing it out in the long march.
>literally carried the whole way.
