• star_wraith [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    It’s a fair point, though I think this meme is going after a very specific type of person: present day neoconservatives that say they used to be Trotskyites.

    I’ve never seen a Trot on this site. I’m probably the closest thing in that “I think Stalin did a lot of good but also a lot of bad, but obviously not anything close to what anti-communists claim. Ultimately he and the party were faced with a multitude of impossible problems and I don’t know if the choices I would have made in his shoes would have been any better”.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      “I think Stalin did a lot of good but also a lot of bad, but obviously not anything close to what anti-communists claim. Ultimately he and the party were faced with a multitude of impossible problems and I don’t know if the choices I would have made in his shoes would have been any better”.

      I don't think this is very far off what most ML's believe, that whole "Stalin did nothing wrong" thing is just an internet meme.

      Also: Stalin did nothing wrong.