98 years ago, the Romanian army marched into Budapest, saving Hungary from communism

98 years ago, the Romanian army marched into Budapest, saving Hungary from communism.

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And then both fell to harsh fascist dictatorships, allied with Germany, lost the war and were forced to adopt a worse form of gommunism up to 1991
GG Romania

we will always fight communism

oh no how horrible

You can thank us for killing Chaushesku.

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hmmmm

taci in pula mea

;_;

It was pretty close to genuine communism. The establishment of the Soviet Slovak Republic instead of annexation was a proof that Hungarian communists were internationalists. Shame about the Red Terror...
>Here we’ll have to turn to the metaphysician of the Party, Georg Lukács. His idea of the proletarian Party underwent two phases. In the
1919 Socialist and Federated Council Republic of Hungary (to give it, for once, its cumbersome but ideologically correct official name) he and his comrades regarded the Party precisely as
Wittgenstein regarded his early philosophy: the ladder you climb in order to mount the wall, and, when over, you throw away. In the Hungarian ‘‘Commune,’’ as it was called by its adherents, at the moment of the conquest of power and the merger of the social democratic and communist parties, the short-lived (half-year-old) Party was practically dissolved, its place taken by the workers’ councils. Even the Hungarian Red Army was organised according to trade union branches: there was a metalworkers’ division, a shoemakers’ division, a typesetters’ division and so on, all supremely effective, the only conceivable successor to a disbanded royal force. The first-generation Hungarian communists believed that it was the proletarian community as such which ought to rule, not an elitist conspiratorial group of fanatic militants.

l>The Hungarian ‘‘Commune’’ was beyond doubt a harsh dictatorship, but a dictatorship exercised, at least in part, by non-representative, direct-democracy bodies. The central organs comprised delegates with mandat impératif,
subject to recall, and procedures not manipulated by non-existent political organisations, only by chaos. After the defeat in August 1919, the exiles and émigrés, pondering the causes of their failure, thought that the main reason was probably the absence of a true Bolshevik Party of the Leninist type. The Hungarian communists were Luxemburgists or the followers of the greatest Hungarian Marxist thinker of the age, Ervin Szabó – who died just before the revolution – who happened to be an anarcho-syndicalist. They, including Lukács, got acquainted with Lenin’s,
Zinoviev’s, Bukharin’s and Trotsky’s work and the Russian experience as such only in exile.

>The Hungarian ‘‘Commune’’ was beyond doubt a harsh dictatorship, but a dictatorship exercised, at least in part, by non-representative, direct-democracy bodies. The central organs comprised delegates with mandat impératif,
>subject to recall, and procedures not manipulated by non-existent political organisations, only by chaos. After the defeat in August 1919, the exiles and émigrés, pondering the causes of their failure, thought that the main reason was probably the absence of a true Bolshevik Party of the Leninist type. The Hungarian communists were Luxemburgists or the followers of the greatest Hungarian Marxist thinker of the age, Ervin Szabó – who died just before the revolution – who happened to be an anarcho-syndicalist. They, including Lukács, got acquainted with Lenin’s,
>Zinoviev’s, Bukharin’s and Trotsky’s work and the Russian experience as such only in exile.

Later on, Stalin decided that the original CPH leadership were hopelessly Trotskyite and he eliminated most of them (including Bela Kun) in the Great Purge, leaving only a tiny remnant party that was rebuilt with loyal Stalinists.

Yeah, even Lukács invreasingly turned to Leninism. He reconsidered many of his earlier positions in Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein.

Also what happened in North Korea was sort of similar; there wasn't any real, organized communist party in Korea during the Japanese occupation or any cadres (just an assortment of squabbling factions who identified as communists), so Kim Il Sung simply created a personal dictatorship modeled after Stalin (his hero) but also combined it with the traditional Korean idea of the god emperor. The factions who wanted to build a more traditional Soviet-style communist party/state were all purged.

"Real socialist" regimes took left-wing opposition very seriously. The anti-Trotskyist division of the Hungarian secret service was only disbanded in 1991.

98 years ago Transylvania was illegally annexed

Kek, good joke!

China also keeps a leash on Maoists (yes, there are still pockets of them). When they start getting too popular, like Bo Xilai, they're removed from office.

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