MrNobodyWhy do you think so many people on the Marxist left defend Stalinism?
rockerface🇺🇦Simply put, they have no idea what they’re talking about.
Stalin took credit for defeating Nazis (after carving up Poland with them first, but who cares about minor historical details) and was leading this big global superpower that could stand up the The Evil West (while also crushing every other leftist organization that didn’t bend the knee, but again, minor details).
And from there it’s a pretty simple leap to the world being divided into the Good Camp and the Bad Camp. The US is clearly in the Bad Camp (which is the part I don’t argue). The USSR was against the US. Therefore it must be the Good Camp. The idea of multiple evil people opposing each other is a bit too complicated for them.
DigitAs I read that, it occurs, perhaps because they simply are not cognizant of, and do not cognise, any other way (e.g. any “freedom respecting” way), only their one true way. Why won’t we just obey? And they keep their totalitarianising level of authoritarianism preventing them from entertaining the ideas, instead only seeing other ideas as threats, and only study them as far as they need to construct the next argument to protect the one true way, that they’ve identified with, and so defend as if their lives (and more) depend on it, obliterating critical, considerate, creative cognition, leaving only social dominance reflex mode…
… could be something like that.
They are basically red-painted conservatives, you could put it that way, yeah