• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    I hate liberals so much. Even their worst claims about the entire history of the Soviet Union pales in comparison to just one year of crimes committed by the American empire. They act like any praise of the USSR is like a vile, reprehensible act. Even viewing it as a normal valid country raises their eyebrows. You have to believe it was a cartoonishly evil place where there was only death and misery.

    Yet these same liberals won't fear praising the United Kingdom throughout its full history. They'll praise the current USA. They'll lay praise on genocidal maniacs like Andrew Jackson or Winston Churchill. They might offer some mild criticisms, but they'll treat America and the UK as otherwise normal places with nuance. But none of that can exist with socialist countries. No praise or nuance is permitted, only permanent scathing criticism. Liberals hate socialism more than fascism.

    • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      So much this. Even if every single ridiculous lie, accusation, misconception, half-truth or slanderous garbage claim about the USSR/Communism from capitalist bootlicking neoliberals were true, communism is inarguably the much better and more efficient, productive, advanced and humane system.

      Capitalism kills bare minimum over 20 million people a year, where as even recent scholarly studies put the total death toll of communism at around 20 million, and even that is stretching it.

      To put into better perspective, capitalism kills more people in a single year than communism has in over 100 fucking years. I'd rather have a system that rewards cooperation, peace, wisdom, democracy, and technological advancement, that only persecutes genuinely violent criminals, scammers, interlopers, right-wingers and oxygen thieves, than the system that rewards greed, exploitation, genocide, environmental destruction, ignorance, abuse of power, and views over 90 percent of the human population as being expendable.

      The life of a single proletarian civilian is worth a quadrillion times more than 10 million, or even one billion wreckers.