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      1 year ago

      I don’t know what kind of “leftists” you have been talking to… the ones I talk to understand this very well. It’s pretty much been the bedrock of anarchist thought for more than a hundred years now.

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          Stalinists are right-wingers with red flags - there’s nothing leftist about them at all. Trots are barely any better. People forget that leftist ideas are popular - that is why there are so many political racketeers in the world pretending to buy into those ideas while actively distorting the same ideas to suit their political agenda. Even old Adolf did it - but no-one is as guilty as the charlatans that ran the USSR and is currently running the PRC. The USSR was about as “socialist” as the US is “democratic” - ie, their (respective) “socialism” and “democracy” only exists in the minds of propagandists.

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              Modern-day Stalinists do not have an excuse… the truth is perfectly available to them. They are no different to people who deny the Holocaust or climate change.

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            You think you have any room to talk whilst you literally quote Hitler. Go back to your Fox News where you can learn more “truths” about the USSR.

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              Oh, look… a pretend-leftist. What’s the matter, tankie? Dropped your little red flag in the toilet?

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                You quoted Hitler. If you think you have any room to claim who is in favor or equal rights and who isn’t, you need to think again. You promoted a view point by Hitler.

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        It’s pretty much been the bedrock of anarchist thought for more than a hundred years now.

        And anarchists are a rounding error, numerically. You’re in a bubble.