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I also checked out the Romanian dictator he mentioned. This is... uh... freaking horrible.

What the fuck kind of "Communist Party" governed Romania???

  • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    gonna be honest alot of the soviet/eastern bloc governments seem kind of shitty.
    not to downplay the good socialism did.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Unsurprisingly, Parenti has lots of good leftist criticisms of the USSR in Blackshirts and Reds.

      I think it does help to have some of these criticisms ready when the topic comes up with non-leftists, because you don't want to come off as (or be) a cheerleader for whatever AES states do. It's critical support, after all.

      • chlooooooooooooo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        i mean, yeah. we'd be betraying our ideology if we didn't make fair criticisms of its implementation. we are scientific socialists, not cheerleaders.