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Help, I can't convince people who have more direct experience than me that they are wrong
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But it was never that, from the instant Mao gained any real hold on power in China. He subsumed the entire movement, and fundamentally corrupted it, in much the same way that Stalin did.
you gotta understand something about tankies: they think that's a good thing
Oh, I know. It’s why I tilt at their windmills: to provide the counterpoint, in hopes that more susceptible people will see more than just the dogmatic Socialist Alternative hardliner viewpoint. Genuinely, I think those types do far more damage than they understand, especially in well-educated-median populaces such as Boston, when they bring their fucking Mao + Stalin silk screened Soviet flags to literally any fucking rally. If it pisses me off, as a person who’s very socialist and leaning even more so by the second, then I’m sure it’s alienating FAR more people than it’s calling to the banner.
for sure! that shit pisses me off. for a lot of people those symbols of their oppressors. all those say to them are "pick a genocidal freak and get in line" when what most of us are communicating is "what if we didn't with genocidal freaks all the time?"
You put it way more succinctly than I did lol
How can someone corrupt what was made to be corrupt lol? Lenin and Engle's empowerment of the state against the proletariat could have never ended any other way. It's the same brain rot that right wing Libertarians espouse, just from the other side.
Out of control government, out of control businesses. It's the same picture.
I don't know much about the Chinese revolution/civil war, but it wasn't Stalin that turned Soviet Russia authoritarian; it was like that from the start. Stalin simply consolidated power within the already authoritarian framework of one-party rule. It could've been Zinoviev or Trotsky that came out on top and Soviet Russia would still have been an authoritarian hellhole. It might've been a better authoritarian hellhole or a worse authoritarian hellhole, but none of these guys were advocating for abolishing the Cheka (later the GRU) or holding new elections.