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  • Didn’t Stalin say that quantity has a quality of its own?

    Oh yeah, Stalin got backstabbed by Hitler—who would have thunk it? (save maybe some advisors who were sent to the gulag)—with terrible consequences for the USSR. Militarily-speaking, Germany has been a challenge for Russia. Russia should have prepared for it, but Stalin fucked around being a dictator, letting ideology and his personality cult get in the way to rising to the challenge, and the consequences were probably millions of more dead Soviets than otherwise.

    After a hard fight in this war of annihilation, with possibly indispensable help from the evil (relatively) liberal West, the big 4 defeated Hitler and carved up Germany, resulting in unprecedented freedom and prosperity for West Germany, and the USSR didn’t do too bad either, but the US did even better.

    What I find annoying is that Soviet and/or tankie apologists act like 1939 and 1940 didn’t happen. It’s carved into their memorials—1941 - 1945 instead of 1939 - 1945. It’s as if they are trying to deny historical facts.





  • How do Marxists see the USSR, China under Mao, Hoxhua, North Korea, Pol Pot, and Sendero Luminoso?

    Let me guess:

    USSR and Mao generally good, particularly given circumstances; Hoxhua who?; North Korea better than South Korea (and PRC even today is better than ROC); Pol Pot wasn’t a true Scotsman; and you like at least a few RATM songs.







  • It may be unintentional, or well meaning, but ultimately it does serve to apologize for fascism.

    Assuming he is that bad—which again I’m not sure, though I think he is or close to it—but when someone calls me a fascist, I find it hard to take them seriously. It’s like when someone accuses me of having TDS my typical reply is of course that I indeed have TDS, anybody who doesn’t worship Trump has TDS.


  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
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    3 days ago

    IIUC, you’re telling me that when it comes to Palestine, Biden is no better than Trump, or conversely, Trump is no worse than Biden.

    At times I tend to agree with this, but I say it while acknowledging that I don’t know everything about the issue—I am no expert on this. For all I know, Biden might be worse, or Trump might be worse; which is why I wouldn’t be so quick to call someone who thinks one isn’t as bad as the other an apologist for fascism. IMO, if you say that, you better know what you’re talking about. You want to bash Biden or the Democrats from a leftist POV, go right on ahead, but your (apparent at least) pontificating makes you look like an elitist.


  • What is prompting you to ask me these questions? Because it seems like you’re just trying to derail.

    I’m trying to understand why you replied with what you replied.

    I could start asking you completely unrelated questions as well, but it would just be wasting time.

    Ask away.

    Incidentally, my answers are no and yes, respectively.

    Thank you for answering the questions.

    (It is now 06:33 UTC (2:33 AM EDT), 22 May 2025.)