• Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Let me just pop on my They Live sunglasses and give this post a reread

    whether it’s true doesn’t matter because it fits my opinion of him

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        No investigation, no right to speak. If you don't even have evidence he said it you're just working backwards to justify your conclusion, which is what every westerner is taught. If you don't have an actual source to cite don't be arrogant and just accept that you made a mistake.

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm not denying that at all. Ruthlessness and brutality are some editorialized words, but fair enough to describe the attitude the early Soviet Union had to assume to stomp out opportunists and reactionaries. Every single actually existing, surviving socialist state had to do something similar. The ones who didn't, like Allende and Arbenz, were swiftly dealt with by the reactionaries they treated with mercy which was not paid back.

            • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Every single actually existing state had to as well. Capitalists killed the monarchists and the competing monarchs killed each other.

              Liberals literally think violence only happens when it's not "their" police or soldiers killing people

              • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Yes that's very true. The argument I was trying to capture is that when us socialists try to do things the nice and peaceful way, reactionaries don't spare us the same mercy. So to everyone who believes in the goals of socialism, they should accept that the only way they've been achieved in history is through the suppression of reaction.

                But what you say is also true and it reminds me of Parenti's remarks on liberal criticism of the Cuban revolution in the yellow lecture. Liberals will look at a brutal, oppressive capitalist government that has no regard for civil rights in a third world country and say, "that's the cost of development; it's very unfortunate but there is no other way for these nations to succeed". But when socialists overthrow that regime and turn the mechanisms of repression back on the fascists, the liberals pipe up, "Oh you've established better quality of life for the workers, but what about the fascists? Are there civil liberties for the fascists?" And just like that, liberals go from pragmatic, realpolitikers to bleeding heart humanitarians protecting the rights of every fascist in the globe.

      • panopticon [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        whether it's true doesn't matter because it fits the historical facts.

        ... Wow

        New site tagline just drop?