Serious, yes, uncritical, no. I’ve seen plenty of users here bring up valid criticisms of various socialist leaders that they otherwise support. And it’s a good thing too, imo, lest we stray too far into great man/hero worship territory
EDIT: just saw the “revisionist babies” comment and realized I may be responding seriously to a bit. :shrug-outta-hecks:
based on my understanding they posed an actual threat? like weren't they trying to seced with an important port? like the westoids sent an expeditionary force less than 15 years ago at that point
That's the thing with these things, you get into a political discussion and things get very gray and hypothetical. It can be pretty interesting if people want to get a deep understanding and dive deep in the discussion, but uncritical support for the USSR's actions or demonizing the USSR's actions usually terminates the discussion long before anything of value is extracted from it.
Yeah what you're saying is true. So many revolutionaries are so thoroughly demonized that thinking Stalin did good made you out like some sort of a maniac outside of ML spaces, and there are legitimate criticism informed communists can make that are far cry from the mud reactionaries sling.
Serious, yes, uncritical, no. I’ve seen plenty of users here bring up valid criticisms of various socialist leaders that they otherwise support. And it’s a good thing too, imo, lest we stray too far into great man/hero worship territory
EDIT: just saw the “revisionist babies” comment and realized I may be responding seriously to a bit. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Are there any actually valid criticisms of Lenin other than dying young? Sure he was a gym bro, let he who hasn’t mired cast the first stone
no but I'm really really mad about the dying
50s, 50s?! you motherfucker kissenger is 99 REEEEEEEEE
There's the Kronstadt but IIRC Lenin himself admitted he fucked that up.
based on my understanding they posed an actual threat? like weren't they trying to seced with an important port? like the westoids sent an expeditionary force less than 15 years ago at that point
That's the thing with these things, you get into a political discussion and things get very gray and hypothetical. It can be pretty interesting if people want to get a deep understanding and dive deep in the discussion, but uncritical support for the USSR's actions or demonizing the USSR's actions usually terminates the discussion long before anything of value is extracted from it.
I was mostly joking….mostly
Yeah what you're saying is true. So many revolutionaries are so thoroughly demonized that thinking Stalin did good made you out like some sort of a maniac outside of ML spaces, and there are legitimate criticism informed communists can make that are far cry from the mud reactionaries sling.