I hate these people so much man. Stop fucking smearing marxism by saying that one of our most successful projects is “a massive stain on marxism’s legacy”. Like shit on stalin for things he actually deserves it for if you really want but stop discrediting the ussr and marxism like that you scum
I'm more baffled by the complete lack of awareness that comes with saying "Stalinists have the most binary logic" while demonstrating that you have no desire to assess the nuance and complexity of Stalin's legacy, and only view him through a binary lens of Good or Bad.
It's like defeating Nazi Germany means nothing for these people.
these ppl call themselves marxists but try to isolate events in history as idealists do.
Words actually mean things. A common lib mistake. "Binary" does not mean "Stupid idiot who disagrees with me." I feel like someone called this guy out for black and white simplistic thinking and he googled a thesaurus in an attempt to turn it around on his detractors, assuming that if someone is calling him out, it's just an empty insult with no actual substance.
Yes lmao, this actually is a multi day tantrum from someone calling him out i can give you the link(s) if you want
https://twitter.com/matthuntermcr/status/1733960616589820104
^ original tweet that set 1dime off
https://twitter.com/1dimeofficial/status/1734248367864115649
https://twitter.com/1dimeofficial/status/1734751534007636105
^ his seething in 2 separate threads
nitter links if u dont want to go onto hellsite
https://nitter.net/matthuntermcr/status/1733960616589820104
https://nitter.net/1dimeofficial/status/1734248367864115649
https://nitter.net/1dimeofficial/status/1734751534007636105
his cultural rev. video was eh, I couldn't get over the (not so) subtle bourgeoisie ideology seeping in whenever he talked about dictatorship, also to him revisionism just seems like a minor argument about not wanting olives in your pizza which gave reason to the GPCR. Don't get me wrong, due to the dialectic nature of the two line struggle, one can be correct on one line and incorrect in the other, but the whole reason for the cul. rev is that class struggle doesn't end under socialism and that the bourgeoisie will do absolutely anything they need to take power back (Lenin).
Ive always gotten weird vibes from his channel so I havent watched it, guess I should just skip it huh?
up to you, I think there is a podcast called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that talks about the 10 years in detail, I listened to their first episode and it was really in depth, I'd just say watch the video while being critical of his liberal ideology of communism
Such projection, criticizing a strawman Marxist argument as "binary" while reductively categorizing the USSR as either good or bad.
Even if we turn this in to a purity contest, I highly doubt Marx himself believed revolutions to be a dinner party. Is that binary logic? No, that's just historical consequence.
"If I were in charge of the USSR, I simply would have firmly but politely told the Axis armies 'No'."
"I would have made a video essay on 'Here's why Hitler is Bad, Actually,' and sent it on reels to Germany."
Tragedies had a context, many were inevitable or necessary... yeah that's right what the fuck is he trying to say??
He's implying that the tragedies that happened under Stalin that MLs say were inevitable or necessary were actually neither of those things. Note the scare quotes.
I suspected that, but it's so poorly phrased and doesn't actually make any point that I got confused
If anything, he was too kind to the Fins and the Baltics after the war.
That's a shame, I liked his videos where he explains the capitalist economy.
