Since Trump, I’m finding the Lemmy.world experience to be increasingly akin to an echo chamber and it’s quite frankly starting to bore me. (Inb4, I’m a left winger and I don’t like Trump, but I’m much more interested in a good spirited debate or novel points of view than I am in Orange man bad Nazi circle jerks)
If I wanted the same repetitive comments to be upvoted and any different opinion at all to be downvoted and even blocked/banned, I’d have just stayed on Reddit.
Are there any instances where different, opposing and novel points of view are celebrated and debated rather than simply derided and downvoted?
It was actually a Trotskyist faction, itself against AES, that led to a breakdown between the Anarchists and Marxists in Spain. The Marxists remained the only supporters of the Anarchists. Seems you did forget.
As for “slavery,” by this definition taxes are slavery and public services are slavery. Marx already went over how workers cannot own all of that which they create in Socialism directly, as from a given worker’s production needs to be deducted necessary maintenance of administration, social services, and more in Critique of the Gotha Programme. By your definition, Socialism is slavery. Further still, the Soviets were never disbanded, and there were still Unions. Your history is off again.
What “contradictions” do you believe led to the collapse of the Soviet Union? How was the revolution “betrayed?” What “freedoms” did the workers give up? This is all vague and vibes-based.
You still didn’t elaborate on how Marxism is “akin to fascism.” I’m aware of the term “red-fash,” it’s a ridiculous term and I linked you a book thoroughly explaining why. I can’t force you to read it, nor can I force you to make a coherent point.
Your constant insistence that I’m incoherent is acerbic and I have no patience for it.
For anyone else still reading, I suggest you go and read anarchist accounts of why they feel they’re constantly betrayed by MLs in russia and kronstadt, Ukraine, Spain and petty much everywhere they made the mistake to ally with the mls for the sake of the revolution. Sorry but I don’t have the time to counter revisionism in lemmy
Fair enough, but I think that goes both ways. You usually make a claim, then when pressed act vague about it. I admire your work on the Piracy communities and your FOSS development quite a bit, but I don’t think you act honestly when it comes to political conversations, such as jumping to labeling Marxists “fascist” without elaborating.
Also kinda silly to bring up Kronstadt, which was led by a Tsarist in the middle of a civil war, with plans to execute the Communists.
Yes yes we know the lies told about it. Again, people can go and read on their own about the slaughter of anarchists that happened there.
I didn’t call Marxists fascists. I called Lenin’s and Stalin’s regime red fash.
And I don’t act vague, I just don’t have the patience to reopen 100 old debates
“Lies?” It’s on Wikipedia, lol. As for Marxism, I genuinely don’t know what mythical form of Marxism you think is “real” Marxism in your eyes, again, read Blackshirts and Reds.
Links to Wikipedia Wikipedia talks about an anarcho syndicalist. Whatever man
Edit : lol you reported me
An “anarcho-syndicalist” that a year prior tried to join the White Army, and a year after did join the White Army. Some “anarchist.”
And that supports your argument how exactly? Oh no! Humans are flawed and can make weird decisions after massive trauma? Not to be mention 1 man is not all sailors. Quickly grasp at the first excuse to validate your slaughter. As red Emma said at the time, “Trotsky protests too much…”
To anyone still reading, this sort of truth stretching to defend the indefensible is why I don’t trust campists
You’re defending a Tsarist that tried to deliberately sabotage the Soviets during a bloody Civil War, and later joined the Tsarist army as a means to kill more Soviets, as “weird decisions after massive trauma?” Won’t anyone think of the poor, poor Tsarists, woe are they…
To mirror you: To anyone still reading, this sort of truth stretching to defend the indefensible is why I don’t trust campists