I've read the sentence about anarchists ten times and I have no idea WTF he is on about. Btw the nerd's name is Peter Hudis.

Edit: FFS Tankies and anarchists stop shitting on each other here. Take your struggle session elsewhere. You're both my comrades.

  • geikei [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    We don’t have to pretend every project was a perfect uplifting of the masses that was only betrayed by capital

    Sure and if thats what the writter was going against no one would complain . But both using the narrative of "revolutionary 19th and early 20th century socialism were TAKEN OVER by Stalinism and Marxism Lenninsm " with negative connotations, pointing to it as a/the reason for the defeat and as a mistake nontheless and taking the position of “no socialist proejct of them succeeded in representing a viable alternative and all degraded into capitalism” are positions less nuanced and neutral historicaly compared to the ones you describe. You cant describe that as having a lukewarm "Communist projects have been imperfect and for those that failed their internal contradictions and wrong decisions were responsible in a large part"