Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week agoWe believe that Stalin and Mao were committed socialists who, despite their mistakes, did much more for humanity than most of the bourgeois politicians
And i stopped reading there. I don’t consider causing the deaths of 6 million people to be “doing more for humanity”
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
You freely admit to being unfamiliar with Socialist history, and yet are unwilling to even finish a short article? It’s 8 minutes long, if you refuse to read things you don’t agree with without doing the due research to overcome them you doom yourself to blindness.
Seriously, read the full article or you’ll never be able to genuinely understand anything you don’t already agree with.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think I’ll pass. This is like a Nazi coming up to me and suggesting i consider Nazism because it focuses on national and racial pride. Sounds like a good idea on paper right?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
See, equating Communism with Nazism is fascist apologia and perpetuates Double Genocide Theory. This is something you desparately need to correct, if nothing else, because it is a common form of Holocaust minimization. Since you’re already under the mistaken impression that Communists and Nazis could ever be in the same category, you definitely need to read Dr. Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Fall of Communism. Your refusal to read has taken on direct forms of fascist apologia, unintentional as it may be, and if not for me (as I assume you have no respect for me) then you must do it for yourself.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You just keep recommending more books I can’t help but laugh. I used to have respect for you, but it has somewhat waned as of the last hour or so. I even finished that Politzer book.
Also, my comparison is based on how ready both sides are to trivialize the atrocities committed by them.