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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Tankies are totalitarian right winners cosplaying as left wingers. Communism hasn't been in power in Russia since Gorbachev. It's been nationalists since then. They swung. They swung hard. They kept the totalitarianism and got rid of the leftness. I'd have made largely the opposite choice.

[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And as many argue, USSR was state capitalism.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Lenin was actually capitalist libertarian, they won’t tell you that in the history books written by rotten western imperialists but it’s true. You should read The Communist Manifesto.

Moderators please we have a liberal in the comments, I can’t breatheee

[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Been working my way through Richard Wolfe stuff first, then I'll work on the classics. If Wolfe says USSR was state capitalism, then he's a liberal too.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I'm totally ignorant here, but uh... Isn't the point of communism to I close state capitalism?

Communism is not Marxism, which afaik really has never been implemented.

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