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Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day agoYou’re discussing with brainwashed tankies who can only answer “what about xyz in the west” to any kind of, even constructive, criticism.
Lots of anarchists are like that too, a shame because there is surely something to take from those kind of ideas.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you say something is bad, you must have some frame of reference to know how bad it is. So if you say communism is bad, we will want to know, “relative to what?” And since capitalism and western hegemony are the dominant systems, naturally they will draw comparisons. And those comparisons will be unfavorable since capitalism is clearly broken and incentivizes great evil.
So OK, we’re still not really discussing the merits and flaws of communism as they stand on their own, but most of you aren’t ready to accept that almost everything you have learned about communism is a lie and you definitely aren’t ready to engage with the actual historical record.
So instead, the arguments revolve around what-aboutisms. Because most of you deny the evidence of your eyes and just listen to daddy. Long before we can delve into how the soviets actually existed in the world, you have dismissed us as “tankies” and stuck your fingers in your ears.
Valmond@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I must also stop believing my eyes and ears as I grew up in a country bordering the URSS.
I went there. It was a hell hole. Nothing to buy in the stores. I can tell you more.
It also was trying to invade or coerce its neighbours. All The Time. They (the russians) still do.
Capitalism has its flaws but that doesn’t mean the soviet union was in any way good. Ffs open a history book, travel, go there and talk to people who lived during the brutal dictatorship of the soviet union and maybe You can open Your eyes.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
64 per cent of Russians say life was better in the Soviet Union than now
Data is better than anecdotes.
Valmond@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s not data lol, that’s anecdotes and nostalgia.
And it has a name Ostalgie look it up. People are nostalgic of a place the URSS promised them, but it never came through.
You can easily find data that shows how shitty the soviet union was (or do you too believe the propaganda from that era?).