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Drawing those eyes on Mao, there is a reason you are afraid of communism enforced with violence

Us, if we fall for their lies again

What "we"? You're just a bunch of liberals playing dress up, your political involvement is just a performance that stops when you log out of reddit and vooote for Genocide Joe. No connection at all to the political legacy of the anarchists who risked life and limb for humanity.

There were plenty of anarchist and libertarian socialists in the Soviet Union that weren't insurrectionist counter-revolutionary opportunists that thought the best time for them to seize power and hit the full Communism button without building anything to actually achieve it was during times of duress, such as the civil war, the build-up to then during the second world War, the post-war rebuilding period in former fascist countries, the post-war rebuilding period in a reunified country freed from imperialist conquest, and so forth.

If I was as historically illiterate and ideologically ignorant as the person that made this and all the clapping circus seals applauding this, I would say something completely out of line like "in the history of left unity, anarchism and libertarian socialism has only attempted to emerge into the world in the form of a cancerous tumor on the Communist movement and never has nor is able to emerge into the world on its own feet." A completely unfair and intellectually dishonest statement that ignores the existence of anarchist communes in both the Sino and former Soviet states and erases their contributions to the defense of humanity and the revolution they made in fending off the imperialists and fascists and their contributions to the benefit of humanity and the revolution in their work among the people.

Also love the casual racism against Asians by depicting Mao with slit eyes.

imagine criticizing krushchev for the one thing he did right

Anarcho-bidenists have this weird habit of talking about themselves like they are Jewish or something in the sense of having a history of brutal persecution, even if the speaker in question is just some white guy from a liberal family with absolutely no connection to those historical anarchists except for that they now also call themselves an anarchist. Is really weird and LARPy.

The evolution from "Stalin didn't help enough" to "Stalin didn't help at all" to "Stalin actually killed them" regarding the Spanish Civil War is fucking wild.

Editing to fix my dog ass grammar

there's someone in the original .world thread lumping in anyone who opposes capitalism as being a tankie and someone else saying that anyone who doesnt support israel is a "genocidal tankie" and repeatedly accusing one of the anti-tankies in the thread of being a tankie because they haven't condemned hamas yet

I can understand getting fooled and believing all the bad stuff about Mao and Stalin, but I genuinely don’t understand how libs treat Lenin like a great evil. They can’t even give Lenin the “his revolution got out of hand when he died” point. I really don’t see what Lenin did that was extreme. The provisional government was about to be overthrown by reactionaries and they already attempted so before the October Revolution. He took power by popular support and most of his factions enemies were foreign to Russian soil.

Unsure where the author of this meme has heard either Lenin or Stalin call for left unity? Both were pretty clearly and consistently hostile towards Anarchism/Libertarian Socialism as well as what we'd call modern Social Democratic tendencies.

Only not including Mao because I havent read enough Mao and Khruschev because I honestly don't expect him to have written or spoken in particular about left tendency conflicts.

Really funny to just put "intellectuals" under Mao though.

If anyone, anywhere, is ever told what to do for any length of time for any reason, that may as well be a firing squad according to No Veggies At Dinner No Bedtimes unexamined theory-free "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" pop anarchists.

Not Pictured: Uncle Sam applauding Rojava for their help in stealing 80% of Syria's daily oil output.

This meme: Lenin hates Ukraine

Meanwhile Rosa Luxemburg be like "Lenin is too attached to the idea of an independent Ukraine"

Anticommunism aside, since when were MLs pushing for left unity?

WTF is a Libertarian Socialist? Isn't that like an oxymoron?

Why don’t the libertarians and anarchists simply acquire larger guns?

Id tell them that we arent building nations over here and our activism consists of feeding homeless people. So go on believing this if you want, but if it causes you to tear down our nice little mutual aid project then youre terrible.

The person who wrote this is convinced theyre sauron when we are all just regular orcs. You dont have the kind of leadership over whatever movement ends up forming the way Martin Luther King or someone like that did. Dont delusionally think you will.

Half of this dork's posts are "everyone in this thread is angry except for me!" lmao

Something something no sectarianism and all, but it'd be nice if some fairweather comrades (the kind that stick around until their personal treat flow seems vaguely threatened, or even criticized, or until someone tells them what they should do for the sake of society or the planet) stopped dumping steaming smelly takes into the middle of the room while expecting everyone watching to nod along and congratulate them or run the risk of seeming sectarian.

anarcho-comrades shouldn't have exploded bukharin tho, dumbest target selection in history of selections. *And shot lenin

But ussr should have allowed internal factionalism after nep and/or after ww2