I actually feel like I’m losing my mind.

Basically, I swear I read an article/section of a book by either stalin or lenin that discussed how communists rely on class allies rather than ideological allies (i.e, supporting Chiang Kai-Shek despite his reactionary behavior and not supporting anarchists despite their supposedly revolutionary ideals). I thought it was “Anarchism or Socialism” but im going through it and I can’t find it. Stalin does discuss ideas similar to it, but the exact phrasing I’m looking for is not there. Did I hallucinate this (or just sum up my own thoughts and thought that Stalin wrote it somewhere in there) or am I thinking of a different article or something.

  • ComradeChopin@lemmygrad.ml
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    15 days ago

    you might be thinking of the Stalin quote about the Emir of Afghanistan -

    "The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such “desperate” democrats and “Socialists,” “revolutionaries” and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its results was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism. "