gulags pre-date the ussr.
ussr was actually the one that eventually abolished them in 1960
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ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Left wing rage gave us the bloody USSR, gulags, and lets not forget when the RAF kidnapped and killed politicians, and hijacked a plain trying to get their leaders out of jail.
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh neat. One of the guys in the top picture.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
The USSR were authoritarians cloaking themselves with leftist words, the non-authoritarians refer to them as red-fash or tankies, and we don’t consider them to be actually left, just power trippers who want to rule with an iron fist.
Stethoscope theory at work again.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Politics is mostly just tribalism. Radicalization is just having more loyalty to a tribe that wants to destroy the status quo. Whether far left or far right, people in these tribes are more likely to show a blind devotion to the leaders of those tribes. When the leaders of either the far left or far right gain power, the abuse of power will be similar.
Historical problems that stemmed from far right and far left movements in the past are something people pushing these things need to address. The far right goes for “accusing others of that which you’re guilty” which is typical of them. The far left sometimes uses this tactic, but tends to make rationalizations. Tankies go for “didn’t happen, Stalin was great, nananana I can’t hear you!” Non-tankies go for “that stuff that happened in all the other countries won’t happen if we did it here, they started as agrarian socialism and therefore there was no issues in the power dynamics involved with giving all of the power to a small group of people.”
But in the end all radical movements are just variations of “give me all of the power I’ll make you stronger/equal, you can totally trust me!”
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Anarchism is the only ideology that says “Don’t give me power, instead spread all power out as much as possible to prevent dictatorships and ability to exploit others”, and from historical records, when it’s able to be tried it works like it says on the tin.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Spain in the 1930s?
Yeah great, anarchism works until it gets taken over by a dictator.
An ideology that only works if you can get everyone in the world to believe in it is more of a religion than a viable political movement.