Incase anyone tells you that lemmy.ml is not a tankie instance.
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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.
And as many argue, USSR was state capitalism.
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
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.
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.
lenin was pretty good in terms of communism, stalinist russia was very totalitarian though.
I think you are wrong about the right/left thing. Ever hear about the horseshoe theory of politics?
Russia embraced capitalism after the fall of the USSR then became an oligarchy where a bunch of super rich run the whole thing. Socialism is dead in Russia and has been for a long time. The only thing that didn't change is that most people are cripplingly poor. Where have you been for the last 40 years?