Stalin did more to help destroy the idea of international socialism than any single person. If the west was ran by one guy then sure he'd get it, but it wasn't. Stalin is the reason socialism has the taint of authoritarianism. Socialism is inherently democratic, anything less is just a dictatorship of the powerful few with proletarian window dressing.
Yeah man they definitely weren’t calling Lenin a right winger in 1919. Stalin is the reason they slander us so viciously. Without that we could just convince rich liberals to do a gentle socialism in all our best interests right? sweet non threatening liberal democracy is in all our interests. What? The people of a backwards feudal area democratically decide to criminalize homosexuality? Lol fucking issueless leadership amirite, you’re supposed to let democracy wreck the revolution but override democracy for an unpopular social policy before there’s been a major global liberation movement for them.
Just poor “pee pee poo poo” designed to make you be unable to understand history in context and emotionally recoil away without thinking.
Stalin is the reason socialism has the taint of authoritarianism.
No he's not. They were calling us authoritarians before the ussr even happened and before Stalin was even born. The only reason this is attached to Stalin is because he led the first proletarian state for the majority of its climb out of poverty and into a world-leading position. He simply became the face of the first proletarian state and thus all the accusations of "authoritarians" that had been around since Marx first began writing were levelled at him. There's a reason all of Marx' writing addresses accusations of authoritarianism and shamelessly says "yes actually we are authoritarians to the bourgeoisie".
Stalin did more to help destroy the idea of international socialism than any single person. If the west was ran by one guy then sure he'd get it, but it wasn't. Stalin is the reason socialism has the taint of authoritarianism. Socialism is inherently democratic, anything less is just a dictatorship of the powerful few with proletarian window dressing.
Yeah man they definitely weren’t calling Lenin a right winger in 1919. Stalin is the reason they slander us so viciously. Without that we could just convince rich liberals to do a gentle socialism in all our best interests right? sweet non threatening liberal democracy is in all our interests. What? The people of a backwards feudal area democratically decide to criminalize homosexuality? Lol fucking issueless leadership amirite, you’re supposed to let democracy wreck the revolution but override democracy for an unpopular social policy before there’s been a major global liberation movement for them.
Just poor “pee pee poo poo” designed to make you be unable to understand history in context and emotionally recoil away without thinking.
No he's not. They were calling us authoritarians before the ussr even happened and before Stalin was even born. The only reason this is attached to Stalin is because he led the first proletarian state for the majority of its climb out of poverty and into a world-leading position. He simply became the face of the first proletarian state and thus all the accusations of "authoritarians" that had been around since Marx first began writing were levelled at him. There's a reason all of Marx' writing addresses accusations of authoritarianism and shamelessly says "yes actually we are authoritarians to the bourgeoisie".