Trump and Republicans in the US find people guilty of bullshit all the time. Doesn’t mean it’s true. Just means trump and Stalin are paranoid thin skinned little bitches. Xi too. I’m not going to lionize Lai Chee-ying. But the bullshit sedition charges are on brand.
I mean, Stalin locked swaths of people up, incited pogroms, expelled political dissidents – but does that make those actions “Stalinist” in any context? It reads to me as an appeal to red scare sensibilities. In fact these are moves are out of any authoritarian’s playbook. It’s fascist brain drain. I think that’s all they’re saying. Granted ML tends toward tankie, but this take seems fine
I don’t know where all this talk of Stalinist came from. That right there was my first posting of it in this thread. Stalin was an authoritarian dictator. Stalinist/leninist it’s all just another flavor of authoritarianism. Not unique to either one of them really. And ultimately a straw man. Just as the claims of sedition are a deflection.
It’s literally in the title of the post and your comment was defending the take by presenting an example of something Stalin did.
Like, how much more of a connection is needed?
Also, no. Stalinist and Leninist are not “flavors of authoritarianism”. Words have meaning derived from the historical process of meaning creation in a society that you live in. Stalinism has a meaning that is historically defined. Leninism has a meaning that is historically defined. It not just “whatever was done”.
If that’s the case then the all genocides are Bidenism because Biden presided over a genocide. Genocides would also be Harrisism. Drone strikes of American citizens would be Obamism. Saving Nazis would be Trumanism.
Not one side or the other, but this is also just as often found to be true in reverse. Kinda sucks, especially when your viewpoint is supported by a person’s achievements/views/whatever. This guy could have been potentially sabotaging Soviet agriculture (maybe even in support of his larger views of how things should be, hard to say) and spying for Britain (probably more of a stretch considering he was the better/more true to the real goal person for the job which was probably not in line with any of Britain’s priorities). But people do have weaknesses. Sometimes our idea of a person due to their beliefs conflict with their actions. It doesn’t make him any less the better candidate for his position. However, it is difficult to determine without bias whether this was a case of trumped up charges or possibly a man with good intentions that did commit some crimes. I’m inclined to agree that he was probably a convenient scapegoat because, Stalin. But for the sake of a fair argument I think these claims should at least be researched before everyone jumps on the down vote train.
You think Trump and the Republicans have an exclusive lock on trumped up charges? Do you know anything about how federal prosecution works? Wait till you read about what the courts have been doing to black people and indigenous people for generations!
Wow! The mental gymnastics.
Trump and Republicans in the US find people guilty of bullshit all the time. Doesn’t mean it’s true. Just means trump and Stalin are paranoid thin skinned little bitches. Xi too. I’m not going to lionize Lai Chee-ying. But the bullshit sedition charges are on brand.
Don’t listen to that guy, just another Frisbirdian lunatic
I mean, Stalin locked swaths of people up, incited pogroms, expelled political dissidents – but does that make those actions “Stalinist” in any context? It reads to me as an appeal to red scare sensibilities. In fact these are moves are out of any authoritarian’s playbook. It’s fascist brain drain. I think that’s all they’re saying. Granted ML tends toward tankie, but this take seems fine
I don’t know where all this talk of Stalinist came from. That right there was my first posting of it in this thread. Stalin was an authoritarian dictator. Stalinist/leninist it’s all just another flavor of authoritarianism. Not unique to either one of them really. And ultimately a straw man. Just as the claims of sedition are a deflection.
It’s literally in the title of the post and your comment was defending the take by presenting an example of something Stalin did.
Like, how much more of a connection is needed?
Also, no. Stalinist and Leninist are not “flavors of authoritarianism”. Words have meaning derived from the historical process of meaning creation in a society that you live in. Stalinism has a meaning that is historically defined. Leninism has a meaning that is historically defined. It not just “whatever was done”.
If that’s the case then the all genocides are Bidenism because Biden presided over a genocide. Genocides would also be Harrisism. Drone strikes of American citizens would be Obamism. Saving Nazis would be Trumanism.
None of these words mean those things.
Not one side or the other, but this is also just as often found to be true in reverse. Kinda sucks, especially when your viewpoint is supported by a person’s achievements/views/whatever. This guy could have been potentially sabotaging Soviet agriculture (maybe even in support of his larger views of how things should be, hard to say) and spying for Britain (probably more of a stretch considering he was the better/more true to the real goal person for the job which was probably not in line with any of Britain’s priorities). But people do have weaknesses. Sometimes our idea of a person due to their beliefs conflict with their actions. It doesn’t make him any less the better candidate for his position. However, it is difficult to determine without bias whether this was a case of trumped up charges or possibly a man with good intentions that did commit some crimes. I’m inclined to agree that he was probably a convenient scapegoat because, Stalin. But for the sake of a fair argument I think these claims should at least be researched before everyone jumps on the down vote train.
You think Trump and the Republicans have an exclusive lock on trumped up charges? Do you know anything about how federal prosecution works? Wait till you read about what the courts have been doing to black people and indigenous people for generations!