So are only people who are “in a good place” in their lives capable of having “extreme” political beliefs? How do you justify who is in a “good place” and who isn’t? Do you think it could ever be related to political or economic forces? Or are “extreme” political ideologies all universally forbidden? How do you qualify what is “extreme”? Are people who are not in “a good place” only able to have conservative positions that maintain status quo or are they only able to be apolitical? How do you think maintaining status quo or not having any political beliefs would help their “life situation [improve] enough” if there is no change to their politico-economic reality which directly impacts their life situation? If one is in a “good place” what kinds of political beliefs would they typically exhibit or are they allowed to have?
Your entire attitude fucking screams “I have no real political analysis but suffer from a great sense of narcissism that leads me to a false sense of intelligence which makes me think I can paternalistically psychologize others’ entire lives without knowing them so that I can justify sharing my ignorant opinions that communicate that I believe I have a better life than others do and that makes me a superior person” so that gives me hope you won’t be able to help yourself from responding further. Also happy to pay you with Hexbear gold for a similar psychological analysis and thorough breakdown of my political potential if it saves me a trip to the therapist, kind stranger. Thanks.
In my continued exposure to leftist spaces and a leftist view on history it has become clear that all I understand about Stalin is the reactionary rhetoric I’ve been fed my whole life. I have only just started on reading theory and exposing myself to a leftist view, so Stalin as a topic isn’t something I’ve reached yet....
I’m honestly not trying to be disrespectful to your family members, especially if they managed to miraculously survive Auschwitz, but have you honestly considered and acknowledged to yourself that maybe they were detained for being anti-communist pro-bourgeois capitalists reactionaries?
I’m not saying it’s impossible for some forms of antisemitism to exist in USSR, it wasn’t perfect nor was it populated by perfect people, but there wasn’t an antisemitic genocide there like in Nazi Germany and this kinda sounds like it was actually about something else entirely.
I hear you, man. There are a lot of people here who admire Stalin and react to critiques of him or USSR, I know I’m personally more appreciative of Stalin and USSR than I am rejecting him or USSR myself but they weren’t perfect and had their flaws. It’s really because we are always surrounded by, and grew up with, propaganda uncritically vilifying both Stalin and USSR and people get tired of hearing it all the time.
My girlfriend is a post-Soviet Russian and her family got moved around a couple of times under Stalin so they’re not too happy about him, and one side hid their Jewishness probably due to prejudice/antisemitism that they faced—so it’s clear some existed for them to hide it but it certainly wasn’t to the point of avoiding imprisonment or extermination. She’s still a Communist for what it’s worth and they had a decent life in Soviet Union but she kinda takes the mainstream line on Stalin—that’s all I’ll say about that because it’s caused friction with us before. Haha Anyway, opinions on Stalin range and I’m open to hearing about yours. People here usually very openly share evidence and sources for their claims to combat the decades of Western propaganda that’s made us uncritically reject Stalin/USSR so that’s why people are asking for yours.
I can appreciate you shared some personal information already but if you can also please share the evidence you alluded to reading then it would at least help me understand where you’re coming from better. We also don’t always have the luxury of reading every book and heavily researching all subjects so sharing like this is a form of collective education. So can you please share some of what you’ve researched?
These signs are warnings of libs living there who will get rabidly angry if you doorknock them and try to organize them to actually participate in anything.
They are always the worst. “CAN’T YOU SEE I ALREADY PUT THE SIGN OUT?”
Oh, they don’t literally say that. I just mean they are purely performative and feel like they did their part and are on the right side of history because they just put up a sign and nothing more. They never want to get involved in anything.
Well, you did basically tell your friend who just literally pretended to be Tzar Nicholas that you’d be willing to shoot them, right to their face. Haha
I would have just said something like, “I wouldn’t be friends with you in the first place if that was the kind of person you were, so the question is irrelevant.”
You could’ve been kinder to your friend, who is now either offended or scared of you (but that’s kinda funny, to be honest).
But are you the asshole for insisting to kill the Romanovs? NTA!
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What's the deal with Stalin?
In my continued exposure to leftist spaces and a leftist view on history it has become clear that all I understand about Stalin is the reactionary rhetoric I’ve been fed my whole life. I have only just started on reading theory and exposing myself to a leftist view, so Stalin as a topic isn’t something I’ve reached yet....
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AITA for being insistent on "killing the Romanovs"?
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