kbin was one of those radlib hives like beehaw that was all about tankie hysteria, wasn't it?
Also jesus what a pathetic shop on the Republican logo, which should be extremely easy to get proper transparency on. We can see what their priority is.
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"I hate people" is just the literal meaning of misanthropy and is a deeply pathological attitude to have. If that's someone's reason for not doing socialism, the answer is to do what you deem best to fix that attitude.
Honestly one of the cooler photos of a wolf I've ever seen
I see, thanks. By implication, it seems like lemmygrad got shafted on purely ideological grounds, but then I suppose what's new?
Your argument is useless because you're bundling a bunch of behaviors together without substantiation while taking a very narrow view of what interactions do and what their purpose can be (ignoring my counterexample at the end).
As an aside, NATOist shitlibs and "I disavow Biden while taking Pompeo's line on foreign adversaries" types are a) materially identical and b) completely antithetical to my ideology, not my cute little neighbors who prefer mousse over fudge or whatever minor affectation we are worried about protecting here.
I apologize for implicitly asking you to dredge up old and meaningless drama, but did they make a post addressing this like other nominally-left instances did?
I suppose Trotsky might have coined it, but I don't know that he did and the term has a life in various facets outside of Trotskyism (though it is a stupid term in the vast majority of uses), but "campist" is not only a Trotsky coinage, but specifically an element within Trotsky's "third campism" ideology that only has a life therein and is rarely used otherwise.
If Cuba is non-Marxist, their record makes an excellent case for "Castroism" or whatever you want to sneer at it.
Anyway, read Mao
lmao no one calls themselves "campist", that's a term Trotsky made up to tar Soviet sympathizers with the same brush as fascist sympathizers, based on his completely bullshit analysis of the late interwar period that puts the Soviets and Nazis in the same bloc.
The USSR shouldn't have re-banned abortion, shouldn't have re-criminalized homosexuality (Stalin was personally pretty homophobic, it seems), shouldn't have let Trotsky live, and plainly failed to figure out how to reconsolidate the Party leadership after all the shit that went down with a certain splitter and his opposition bloc and the chaos of the great purge.
Past 1953, the list gets much longer, but that's because Marxists had lost control and revisionists had taken over the central committee (though many were still [inadequate] socialists). Obviously that wasn't exhaustive of pre-1953 issues either. Lenin had an impossible task and state capitalism seems to have been a failure to properly account for class antagonism forming a bureaucracy, but still made great progress and his and Stalin's mistakes were nothing compared to those of the subsequent leadership.
but maybe leave the 1500 word justification for why the Katyn Massacre was actually based and a good thing unspoken.
I think it was weird to try to blame it on the Nazis, but summarily executing a particular collection of Polish military officers during wartime is -- considering the level of Holocaust collaboration in the Polish government and the Soviets being subjected to Nazi genocide -- something requiring much more justification to establish as actually bad than I have ever seen someone bother with.
When your own population is decimated by genocide and you are actively fighting a war against the perpetrators of the genocide, killing a few thousand cops and military who were enthusiastic collaborators in and perpetrators of that genocidal project seems to me like a perfectly reasonable security measure. Conversely, staffing prison camps adequately to contain those thousands of trained and highly murderous people while you are already running ragged trying to fight the Nazis seems like it would be a strategic error. Frankly, if there were people among their number who were interested in opposing genocide, they should have defected.
I'm curious what the actual number is, incidentally, since looking it up it seems like ~5k corpses were found. I won't say that I've done an exhaustive search, but I'm inclined to believe 22 thousand is a theological number more than anything at this point, as notoriously happens with any socialist or socialist-like project, including ones that I strongly condemn like decolonized Khmer Rouge, who were clearly unjust butchers once they removed colonial forces and yet their killings are still exaggerated by an order of magnitude.