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Come on Barbie lets go Party (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe you want to drop the fud and trying to inject the holocaust into a comparison as means to discredit a point when it was never made in the first place. There's no defending the USSR or ML, so I'm not going to bite and engage in an argument designed to downplay the evils of it.

And that essay was utter wank filled with needlessly gratuitous language that languished on for countless paragraphs. It easily could have been condensed into a paragraph or two with some historical examples thrown in to justify the argument.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There’s no defending the USSR or ML, so I’m not going to bite and engage in an argument designed to downplay the evils of it.

Lol, yes there is, and it is a very simple argument:

  1. A transitional state moving towards communism is less violent than a capitalist state.

  2. All large anarchist attempts at governing were basically the same as the USSR under war socialism(Catalonia, which started much more industrialized, and lost, because of, among other things, anarchist organizational failure) or worse (free state of Ukraine, which led to a wave of pogroms because they refused to suppress reactionary elements))