i’m NOT even sure if this is the right community for me to post this on. that said, i got banned from hexbear (and now banned from posting stuff on !slop@hexbear.net from this lemmy instance) for “history of repeating us state department talking points, antisocialism and zionism” as well as possible “fedposting”.
i DON’T usually complain about hexbear, but part is me’s glad i got banned from hexbear - of course that site is mostly run by tankies.
of course you DON’T have to be a tankie to support marxism-leninism - i asked this question here, and some people said ‘you DON’T have to support stalin to support ml’.
i think that the ussr would’ve been better off today if the ussr continued to led by a troika after lenin’s death in 1924, but who am i to judge? i prefer lemmy.ml (another lemmy instance).
i apologize to any hexbear people reading this, and i’m sorry i called you tankies. seriously!
That’s a pretty weird thing to say considering the role of Stalin in compiling and practicing marxism-leninism.
Yep, I even gave OP what I thought was a decent and fair explanation of why Marxist-Leninists uphold Stalin.
well marxism-leninism is a variation of both marxism AND leninism, although developed by joseph stalin in the 1920s. there’s a difference between the ideology and stalin’s actions as leader of the ussr from 1924 to 1953. seriously!
Lenin was a Marxist, Stalin took Lenin’s advancements and synthesized them into a higher level of Marxism, Marxism-Leninism. Stalin applied Marxism-Leninism in relatively successfully leading the USSR during it’s most turbulent period, and as such all major ML orgs uphold Stalin.
what about the gulag and mass imprisonment stuff under stalin?
The USSR had prisons, sure. Some were worse, others were fairly progressive in their conditions for the time. The “mass imprisonment” is largely for traitors, fascists, and sabateurs, it wasn’t just random arrests. I reccomend reading Russian Justice.
If a socialist revolution happened tomorrow in America, a whole lot of people would have to be locked up both for justice and for the safety of everybody else. ICE thugs, right wing militia types, police gangs, billionaire ghouls who would try to take back their ill-gotten riches, government officials complicit in the Gaza genocide, etc.
are you saying that the best course of action is to form an alternative socialist government of the united states as a micronation called the ‘federal socialist republic of america’?
Honestly, looking at the way things are going around here right now I think we can just go for the whole thing lol
you mean forming that micronation?