• Gorilladrums@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s like the tankies who say Stalin was a fascist and not a Marxist, they’re, like you said, brain dead

    • lemmington_steele@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      could you remind me which part of Marxism exactly it was Stalin was implementing, other than claiming to be in line with Marxism? a dictatorship of the proletariat perhaps?

      • Gorilladrums@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Participating in a violent overthrow of capitalism? ✅

        Establishing an authoritarian socialist dictatorship that rules with an iron fist? ✅

        Seizing land and property by force? ✅

        Purging anybody and everybody that didn’t fall in line under the guise of being “anti-revolutionary”? ✅

        Destroying the environment, cities, culture, and people to bring about the social climate necessary to bring about communism™? ✅

        Committing genocides to get rid of “anti-revolutionary” groups? ✅

        Pumping propaganda about Marxism? ✅

        Ruling as the dictator of the the communist party that supposed to rule on the “behalf” of workers? ✅

        He’s a Marxist and there’s literally nothing you could say to change that.

        Many Marxists are damaged enough to actually believe that Marxism isn’t authoritarian when it inherently is. Authoritarianism ≠ fascism. Fascism is just one of many ideologies that are authoritarian, Marxism is among these ideologies.

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          1 year ago

          Marx had two things: a critique of industrialist society, and a plan for how to fix said society. His critique was valid, his solutions were questionable. I don’t think you’ll find many socialists today who consider themselves Marxists.