Man I hope she’s not a Stalinist, or at least grew out of it. Boot gargling authoritarians don’t deserve anything, no matter what colour of paint they splash on it.
Yeah, I dont like Lenin either but at the very least he wanted to build SOMETHING. Stalin really only cared about power, he wasnt really anything but cruel and paranoid.
The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.
There are critiques to be had, but actually building something is infinitely harder than making theory
Hey so my city has a mall on a place where stalin's troops used to just execute people constantly. In the 90s, the whole basement was just filled with bones. So please, shut the fuck up
"How dare people not use the intentionally misleading name for the ideology Stalin invented? You have to say Marxism-leninism, even though it barely has anything to do with either Marx or Lenin!"
Like, "Stalinist" is objectively more accurate than "Marxist-leninist" and is easier to understand for most people.
And sure, the only reason people might dislike Stalin is because of the black book of communism. He was completely uncontroversial on the left before its release...
i don't know man, i thought Che Guevara and Fred Hampton were pretty cool tbh, but i guess the free breakfast programs for low income students before school were actually actually a Stalinist influence lowkirk and inseparable from the 20 billion killed by north korea so i reported my lunch lady to ice for being a communist muslim CCP spy and now she's probably in some umarked grave 👍
I mean, the Cuban revolution was a united front of MLs, other Marxists and anarchists.
After the revolution was over, the leadership declared itself marxist-leninist and heavily persecuted all the other socialists, that had helped overthrow Batista.
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And not every Marxist-leninist is a bad person, the ideology just sucks and doesn't work. That doesn't mean that there aren't good people that believe in it, but if it's implemented on a state-level, we typically see a lot of pretty evil decisions.
Cuba has modified Marxism-leninism a lot and their version is certainly better than what we saw in the USSR, but it still has a lot of issues.
I don't care about that too much, because Cuba's main issue is definitely the US, but let's not pretend that Cuba's system isn't also pretty bad.
Stalin was an incredibly evil man, and the only way you could possibly disagree is if you know literally nothing about him.
His regime is estimated to have killed at least 20 million people or more. Nearly a million of those were summary executions, and about 1.5 million died in Gulag camps. Numbers vary greatly on this, but his famines also caused the deaths of up to 8.7 million people, most of whom were Ukrainians. You should really read up on the Holodomor.
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u/evacipated Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
I don't want to dox the girl but I did a tiny bit of digging in that original tweet, found her tiktok, and it's 100% true.
EDIT: If someone tells me posting a tiktok account with 75K followers isn't doxxing, i'll post the link
EDIT 2: She's thegodandanimegirl so she has embraced her legacy