ASSAD BECAME THE RULER OF SYRIA BECAUSE HIS CHAD BORTHER CRASHED HIS CAR AND WHEN PEOPLE DEMANDED ACTUAL FUCKING DEMOCRACY AND END TO THE CRIPPLING CORRUTPION ASSAD DECIDED TO KILL THE PEOPLE ITS NOT AT ALL MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT
...but it is actually much more complicated than that, the history of a country and it's trajectory cannot be understood through the biography of a single person, because Syria is not the result of the will of a single despot but of a multitude of historical process. History also has a class character and every political struggle is a class struggle. The agitation for Western style "democracy" represented the class interest of the Western capitalists and would have made the country much worse off (see post Soviet eastern Europe, India, and Latin America for the concrete results of this kind of neoliberal pillaging).
You honestly haven't been a very generous or curious discussion partner (and here I thought you actually wanted to know why "tankies" believe what they do), but any revolutionary worth their salt should never stop studying and struggling with others over matters of ideology, and to that end I ask you to, in future discussion, try to understand where people come from when they engage in good faith discussion and not make caricatures of their views and then stone-wall. There are not blood-thirsty "red fash" in your midst.
ASSAD BECAME THE RULER OF SYRIA BECAUSE HIS CHAD BORTHER CRASHED HIS CAR AND WHEN PEOPLE DEMANDED ACTUAL FUCKING DEMOCRACY AND END TO THE CRIPPLING CORRUTPION ASSAD DECIDED TO KILL THE PEOPLE ITS NOT AT ALL MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT
...but it is actually much more complicated than that, the history of a country and it's trajectory cannot be understood through the biography of a single person, because Syria is not the result of the will of a single despot but of a multitude of historical process. History also has a class character and every political struggle is a class struggle. The agitation for Western style "democracy" represented the class interest of the Western capitalists and would have made the country much worse off (see post Soviet eastern Europe, India, and Latin America for the concrete results of this kind of neoliberal pillaging).
Syria has been a fucking dictatorship for a long time its not complicated at all
You honestly haven't been a very generous or curious discussion partner (and here I thought you actually wanted to know why "tankies" believe what they do), but any revolutionary worth their salt should never stop studying and struggling with others over matters of ideology, and to that end I ask you to, in future discussion, try to understand where people come from when they engage in good faith discussion and not make caricatures of their views and then stone-wall. There are not blood-thirsty "red fash" in your midst.
I fucking refuse to gice any gorund to people trying to defend dictators
🤷♀️ have it your way