Has /r/socialism_101 been compromised? I have noticed over the last 2 or so months some incredible takes in the comments and this thread is even locked.
I usually don’t really care but this kind of thought is on par with libs that use “utopian” when talking about Marxism. Just so confidently wrong. I’m not even that well read yet on theory but, Jesus, this set off my lib radar bad.
Wasn’t Stalin already dead when the tanks were sent to Hungary?
It was the spectre of Stalin that ordered the tanks to cross the border! He was so brutal that no one would dare disobey even his disembodied spirit.
Yeah and it was months after Khrushchev gave his speech denouncing Stalin and committing to “de-Stalinization”
Tankie is when Stalinist is when de-Stalinization. Don’t look at me, I don’t make them rules
Yeah, I’m not as read up on all the history of the USSR between 1950 and 1990 as I’d like to be but someone in the comments did mention that the Hungary thing happened after Stalin lol.
To call yourself an ML and also uses terms like Stalinism unironically? Maybe I’m wrong but this smells like fedposting or larping.
In my experience, “Stalinism” gets thrown around a lot where I live particularly by the -ists (starts with a T). It’s to discern themselves from the “wrong kind of socialism” that advocates for “authoritarian regimes” and “genocide”. The type that proclaims real socialism doesn’t exist in those “regimes”. Not by MLs.
Anyway, sectarian/purism nonsense imo. Maybe mods gave up after the Reddit API shitstorm.
Maybe mods gave up after the Reddit API shitstorm.
I know I have lol
I don’t wanna sound too tin foil hat but it feels like the user is a plant. They even cite Wikipedia to “back up” their claim on it.
And yeah mods giving up maybe. I know that sub didn’t go dark over the api shit but they might have had a changing of the guard? The content there used to way better quality it seemed.
Still remember getting into an argument on Facebook where someone tried to argue with me that
was a StalinistHis argument? Every Communist leader was a Stalinist
When I asked him to define Stalinism, he said “Authoritarian Totalitarianism”
I had to stop because it was supposed to be a Simpsons Meme page and I was getting more
by the secondAuthoritarian is becoming another one of “those words” for me too. I live in the States and it’s extremely authoritarian here but others will claim the USSR was actually authoritarian. Our women have virtually no rights, we don’t help the homeless or poor and expect them to die, we have a poverty to profit prison pipeline, our healthcare is behind an employee-controlled pay wall, and we have the electoral college so our votes don’t even matter.
It’s just almost impossible for me to take people seriously when they use these words anymore. And like from what I understand “tankie” just basically means someone who supports socialism and has read a modicum of theory. Well, the word really doesn’t have a meaning but that is mostly how it’s thrown around.
And you can tell those that have read theory because instead of saying “Authoritarian regime” they say a “dictatorship of the proletariat” and they know what that means.
I live in the States and it’s extremely authoritarian here but others will claim the USSR war actually authoritarian. Our women have virtually no rights, we don’t help the homeless or poor and expect them to die, we have a poverty to profit prison pipeline, our healthcare is behind an employee-controlled pay wall, and we have the electoral college so our votes don’t even matter.
That’s just Freedom™, silly.
Maybe this is the silver bullet, we simply need to start calling libs Stalinists for anything remotely progressive for them to hear how reactionary that sounds
You know what, I might start doing that ironically.
“Oh you went to the homeless protest because you think unhoused people shouldn’t be ground into human fish paste by cops? What are you, some kind of Stalinist?”
