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Hardly. Russia is currently under a proto-fascist government severely repressing women's rights, LGBTQ rights, communists, and worker organization. That doesn't mean I want a Russian loss in war that would reinforce the west. Hence the "critical" in critical support
prison labour in laogai
I hate this trend of using scary foreign words to refer to prisons in socialist countries. Soviets didn't have prisons, they had gulags. Chinese didn't have prisons, they had laogai.
I am yet to encounter this applied to fascists, Franco putting political prisoners in cárceles. I guess it's a tool reserved only for left-punching.
mass executions
Weren't most of the executions during Maoism carried out by decentralized grassroots councils of peasants and workers? Isn't this the wet dream of any anarchist?
I don't really believe that authoritarianism is materially possible in classless society
Corruption is a very generic word, can you be more specific?
They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to
No. We just believe that adventurism isn't a good tactic in bourgeois dictatorship, and we distinguish it from repression of capitalists by the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e. by the state democratically representing the workers in power.
That's circular
they also deserve blame for their earlier cooperation with fascist Germany
This is a widely repeated misconstruction of the events in Reddit and Lemmy. I'm gonna please ask you to actually read my comment and to be open to the historical evidence I bring (using Wikipedia as a source, hopefully not suspect of being tankie-biased), because I believe there is a great mistake in the way contemporary western nations interpret history of WW2 and the interwar period. Thank you for actually making the effort, I know it's a long comment, but please engage with the points I'm making:
The only country who offered to start a collective offensive against the Nazis and to uphold the defense agreement with Czechoslovakia as an alternative to the Munich Betrayal was the USSR. From that Wikipedia article: "The Soviet Union announced its willingness to come to Czechoslovakia's assistance, provided the Red Army would be able to cross Polish and Romanian territory; both countries refused." Poland could have literally been saved from Nazi invasion if France and itself had agreed to start a war together against Nazi Germany, but they didn't want to. By the logic of "invading Poland" being akin to Nazi collaboration, Poland was as imperialist as the Nazis.
As a Spaniard leftist it's so infuriating when the Soviet Union, the ONLY country in 1936 which actively fought fascism in Europe by sending weapons, tanks and aviation to my homeland in the other side of the continent in the Spanish civil war against fascism, is accused of appeasing the fascists. The Soviets weren't dumb, they knew the danger and threat of Nazism and worked for the entire decade of the 1930s under the Litvinov Doctrine of Collective Security to enter mutual defense agreements with England, France and Poland, which all refused because they were convinced that the Nazis would honor their own stated purpose of invading the communists in the East. The Soviets went as far as to offer ONE MILLION troops to France (Archive link against paywall) together with tanks, artillery and aviation in 1939 in exchange for a mutual defense agreement, which the French didn't agree to because of the stated reason. Just from THIS evidence, the Soviets were by far the most antifascist country in Europe throughout the 1930s, you literally won't find any other country doing any remotely similar efforts to fight Nazism. If you do, please provide evidence.
The invasion of "Poland" is also severely misconstrued. The Soviets didn't invade what we think of nowadays when we say Poland. They invaded overwhelmingly Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian lands that Poland had previously invaded in 1919. Poland in 1938, a year before the invasion:
"Polish" territories invaded by the USSR in 1939:
The Soviets invaded famously Polish cities such as Lviv (sixth most populous city in modern Ukraine), Pinsk (important city in western Belarus) and Vilnius (capital of freaking modern Lithuania). They only invaded a small chunk of what you'd consider Poland nowadays, and the rest of lands were actually liberated from Polish occupation and returned to the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian socialist republics. Hopefully you understand the importance of giving Ukrainians back their lands and sovereignty?
Additionally, the Soviets didn't invade Poland together with the Nazis, they invaded a bit more than two weeks after the Nazi invasion, at a time when the Polish government had already exiled itself and there was no Polish administration. The meaning of this, is that all lands not occupied by Soviet troops, would have been occupied by Nazis. There was no alternative. Polish troops did not resist Soviet occupation but they did resist Nazi invasion. The Soviet occupation effectively protected millions of Slavic peoples like Poles, Ukrainians and Belarusians from the stated aim of Nazis of genociding the Slavic peoples all the way to the Urals.
All in all, my conclusion is: the Soviets were fully aware of the dangers of Nazism and fought against it earlier than anyone (Spanish civil war), spent the entire 30s pushing for an anti-Nazi mutual defence agreement which was refused by France, England and Poland, tried to honour the existing mutual defense agreement with Czechoslovakia which France rejected and Poland didn't allow (Romania neither but they were fascists so that's a given), and offered to send a million troops to France's border with Germany to destroy Nazism but weren't allowed to do so. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a tool of postponing the war in a period in which the USSR, a very young country with only 10 years of industrialization behind it since the first 5-year plan in 1929, was growing at a 10% GDP per year rate and needed every moment it could get. I can and do criticise decisions such as the invasion of Finland, but ultimately even the western leaders at the time seem to generally agree with my interpretation:
“In those days the Soviet Government had grave reason to fear that they would be left one-on-one to face the Nazi fury. Stalin took measures which no free democracy could regard otherwise than with distaste. Yet I never doubted myself that his cardinal aim had been to hold the German armies off from Russia for as long as might be” (Paraphrased from Churchill’s December 1944 remarks in the House of Commons.)
“It would be unwise to assume Stalin approves of Hitler’s aggression. Probably the Soviet Government has merely sought a delaying tactic, not wanting to be the next victim. They will have a rude awakening, but they think, at least for now, they can keep the wolf from the door” Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of the United States, 1933–1945), from Harold L. Ickes’s diary entries, early September 1939. Ickes’s diaries are published as The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes.
"One must suppose that the Soviet Government, seeing no immediate prospect of real support from outside, decided to make its own arrangements for self‑defence, however unpalatable such an agreement might appear. We in this House cannot be astonished that a government acting solely on grounds of power politics should take that course” Neville Chamberlain House of Commons Statement, August 24, 1939 (one day after pact's signing)
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this
Saying that Hakim is almost exclusively Stalin/Mao is actually an impressively uneducated take. I'd say half of Hakim's videos are atrocity propaganda of western imperialism, which is absolutely necessary, and I've learnt more about the horrors of capitalism through him than through anyone else.
That's a very long and convoluted way of saying "tankies treat communist theory as dogma". As a tankie: I didn't become a tankie by reading theory, I became a tankie by reading demonstrable facts.
I don't support the Soviet Union because "it followed Marx and Lenin", I support the Soviet Union because it provided universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, it abolished unemployment, it guaranteed housing and abolished homelessness, it created the lowest levels of economic inequality seen in the history of the region, it defeated Nazism and saved tens of millions from extermination, it almost tripled life expectancy and saved tens of millions from abject poverty, hunger and disease, and it gave support to emancipatory anticolonial projects everywhere in the globe. Running the numbers is not "atrocity minimization" as you claim, it's pragmatic experimentalism.
For me, it's actually backwards: it just so happens that the projects that in my view have achieved the most liberating and emancipatory goals in history were following Marxist doctrine, which for the unfamiliar, is explicitly materialist and experimental in nature.
What do you call it when a leader consolidates power around themselves, removing checks on their position and making unilateral mandates
I call it "class society"
Can you elaborate on the outcomes of anarchist projects?
Just to be clear: Marxist-Leninists are not state socialists, in the sense that it's not an end goal. Socialism before the withering away of the state is a transitional measure that's considered necessary by MLs while classes still exist in the world, and therefore class warfare.
Stalin's brief denial that Operation Barbarossa had begun
This is disproven as of 2025, though, to the best of my knowledge. This misinfo comes directly from Khruschyov's secret speech, but with the opening of the Soviet Archives the official agenda of Stalin has been found, and he wasn't enclosed getting drunk for days as Khruschyov said but actually had hours-long meetings the following day to the invasion. Or maybe you mean something else?
Hamas, by carrying out the Oct 7th attacks, has exposed Zionism in the world and a ton of formerly milquetoast "millenia old conflict" uneducated takes (myself included, to my own shame) have been cured.
China produces 93% of the solar panels in the planet, provides useful economic trade and affordable commodities to developing economies without the usual debt traps of the west and without a positive trade balance (i.e. without neocolonialism), and by simply being the strongest economy in the planet it's breaking western imperialism's monopoly over the planet.
Speak for yourself, peeling off cold war propaganda is an incredibly liberating process for me. It actually gives me hope that revolution is possible and that not only things can potentially be done, but have already successfully been done.
By the time it achieved industrialization, USSR had universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, had abolished unemployment and homelessness, had the lowest income inequality rates seen in the history of the region, and materially supported emancipatory anticolonial movements all over Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Was it imperfect? Yes. Was it the most emancipatory project humanity has ever seen? Absolutely.
Or, maybe, you're the propagandized person programmed to look for reasons to hate China?