The people before us weren't perfect. Their mistakes are blueprints to learn from and build a better world
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Authoritarian is a meaningless pejorative. All states/countries/political groups etc. must be authoritarian by necessity in class society.
Major citation needed.
I don't even believe in a class society. I have several articles I can cite, but I'll use this one because it jumps straight to the point.
Lemmy.ml users are such obvious Russia/USSR propagandists. Y'all are so quick to suck up to sketchy leaders when you could be hoping for someone more classy like Thomas Sankara.
You just posted a meme and said leftists fight too much and here you are, fighting.
Dictator defenders can kiss my arse, whether they defend Hitler or Stalin. There are far cooler leftists to learn from than f**king Stalin. For example, Thomas Sankara was an actual decent person. Not to mention, the fact that former colonies of the USSR flinch at the word "communism" indicates that he wasn't doing it correctly.
The majority of people who lived in Eastern European socialism regret its fall. The USSR had no colonies, it was an anti-imperialist, de-colonial federation. Sankara learned from Stalin, and was a Marxist-Leninist. Finally, equating Hitler and Stalin equates fascism with socialism, which originated as a form of Holocaust trivialization called Double Genocide Theory. I recommend reading Domenico Losurdo's Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism.
That's cool that being nice is the ceiling of revolutionary possibility in your brutally constrained mind, but the Chinese Communists did this:
Capitalist apologists: see how we reduced world poverty? /s