dsmaster7173important rulepost
StalinsMoustacheohh so Lemmy is gonna be Stormfront even more than reddit isn't it? makes sense.
No. Rejection of extremism does not imply acceptance of some other form of extremism.
Well then it is funny how all anti-communist spaces always end up riddled with fascists🤔
That's because non-extremists usually aren't particularly anti-communist. And why would they be? On paper, communism is a splendid idea. Doesn't seem to work very well in practice, but that doesn't make the idea evil…unlike fascism, which is evil even on paper.
Rejection of so-called extremism is such an enlightened centrist take, people are suffering due to the West and you would rather do nothing? Centrists are very quick to paint anything that threatens the current order as extremist, they simply do nothing productive, but toe the US state department line.
Communism worked great in practice, just look at places like Burkina Faso under Sankara, Cuba flourished when the colonizers got kicked out, USSR and China went from semi-feudal societies to world powers in a couple of decades, etc.
On the other hand, do you believe capitalism works well in practice? A majority of the countries of the world are capitalist and yet it only seems to function (hardly) in the global north which relies on imperialism.
naeapAnarchy worked great in practice, until Franco killed it.
I am not sure what your point is. I have no problems with anarchists and I am inclined to agree with you. Sadly, the capitalist countries of Europe were not interested in fighting against fascism.
undefined> I have no problems with anarchists
Stalin did
Again, what is your point? Did you expect Stalin to support anarchists? I am really not sure what you are getting at here.
If he really was trying to build communism, then yes.
Why would Stalin, a Marxist-Leninist, support anarchism?
Because they both want to achieve communism and fascist taking power (like happen in real life) would suck
The biggest sinners in the Spanish civil war were the capitalist onlookers who openly allowed Hitler and Mussolini to support Franco and the fascists. While it was a sad affair how the anti-fascist side broke down into infighting, it was almost inevitable with how many different ideologies were represented on the anti-fascist side. The fascist side also saw some infighting and what could be described as a coup before consolidating into a more uniform force.
Or stalinists could just not infight
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well, maybe I read you wrong then.
I completely agree that imperialistic capitalism is cancer - and USA and China are the current front runners...
China is a victim of imperialism. I look forward to the day China tramples the US and the rest of the imperialist Western goons.
Anarchy worked great in practice, until Franco killed it.
It is worth mentioning that this means it did not work in practice because it was killed! Yes, the same can be said of ML projects like Burkina Faso that were toppled and thereby had very little they were able to pass on in the long term except lessons (Sankara was incredible and his band mate who betrayed him was a bastard). Communes are great when you don't have capitalist-aligned states who want to destroy you, but currently the state of the world is one where capitalist encirclement is an inevitability.