All this talk about “the liberal communists Bill Gates and George Soros” and how “the neoliberals are now more leninist than the Leninists” is getting increasingly :sus:

  • valium_aggelein [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    He basically just uses Stalinist to mean overly bureaucratic which he does roughly explain. The language he uses isn’t always great but I think it’s an overall insightful book but quite pessimistic though I think that’s fair given when it was written. I do think the “state of the left” has slightly changed since then but maybe that’s just terminally online brain

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      ok but that just normal corporation bureaucracy. I just feel like Fisher being a Br*t clouded his judgement on the authoritarianism of Capitalism since he probably grew up in a Soc-Dem Capitalist Nanny state. He just can't fathom how this same Capitalist State can show its teeth when the Labour rights movement died and neoliberalism can go full swing

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        British trots bring out "stalinist" in practically everything they write, they have never recovered from MI6 using them as a weapon of division against communism itself. As a result of intelligence interference the entire existence of being a Trot revolves around being anti-Stalin and they trot it out everywhere.

        It's really fucking boring once you realise it. They can't stop talking about it. Shut the fuck up and move on jeez.