Message from @Builderelf
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Yugoslavia was great until TIto died
In my opinion, Communism is only as effective as the guy in charge. You get somebody like Lenin, Stalin, or Mao in power things are pretty cool. Get a cuck like Gorbachev and everything sucks and we have capitalism again
I kinda disagree that Stalin and Mao were cool guys. I admire their achievements, but I hate their authoritarianism.
Stalin can't be that bad if more than 60% of russians right now still like him
>stalin and mao
>pretty cool
alright,ignore how they killed the most humans in history
I agree @Deleted User that they had some pretty bad authoritarianism, as an Anarchist I see that as pretty bad. But I think their achievenments were pretty cool, not necessarily themselves.
also @Shwiani, Stalin mainly killed Kulaks (which is good) and some anarchists (which is bad),but most humans in history? far from it. The statistic that says "Communism Killed 100 Million people" is an exaggeration from the Black Book of Communism, which concluded it was 94 million. The source itself was exaggerated too. In fact, the publishers of the Black Book of Communism went back and said that they greatly exagerrated their sources to drive up the numbers! For instance, they considered anybody arrested to be "a death under communism". Furthermore, the population of Russia actually INCREASED during stalin's reign from 1922-1952, from 120 million to 140 million. If 20 million were supposedly "killed under communism", then wouldn't that population increase in fact be a DECREASE? And on the topic of famines, the industrialization policies under Stalin and Mao actually ENDED famines in their respective countries-- famines which plagued the nations for hundreds of years.
So to say that "they killed the most humans in history" is a capitalist lie
Now do I agree with Stalin and Mao?
No, I think industrialization and re-militarization of thier nations could esaily be achieved under Anarchism, without resorting to Totalitarianism.
But that doesn't mean I should whine and say they were big meanies that killed a hundred quadrillion people
kulaks were assholes, but that doesn't justify killing them
eh, i dont mind that stalin gulaged the filthy grain horders
and the nazis deserved what they got in ww2
everything else however, stalin wasn't justified in doing
yeah
what do you think about "holodomor"? Genocide or simply bad weather conditions and incompetency?
anarchism
For instance, the soviet regime sold a lot of their grain mostly to buy machine parts for industrialization, which eventually got the food situation under control but for the time being only increased the levels of starvation.
yeah
I also don't think it could've been a genocide, because it mostly effected peasants. There is no way in hell that I could believe that Joseph Stalin would lead a genocide to KILL PEASANTS.
The entire communist ideology is based around PROTECTING the peasants, and Stalin was and alwasy has been a die-hard communist
hell, he read up on communism very extently in his university days
yeah
and in an interview one of his bodygaurds said that he went out of his way to give people waiting for their late bus one day rides to their location
he's given plenty of lectures at universities too
he drove them himself
that too
so I don't agree with the very liberal view of history that says "Stalin was a big meanie that just wanted power and corrupted the soviet union with genocides and bad stuff"
also I like your pfp. BREAK THE CHAINS
sure he had some imperialistic aspects to him, and he had some questionable choices at times
but he's still my comreade
thanks bro
direct rule from london
cant use caps apparently
huh
it let me use caps
thats because half your sentence was lowercase, the entirety of my sentence was uppercase