ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]

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    1 year ago

    suppose you could make an argument that a non-communist dialectical materialist is also a Marxist

    That’s my argument

    though I’ve never seen it used that way in practice.

    Sometimes capitalists spout marxist shit and it is recorded. Marxist capitalists are the worst because they have an understanding of the contradictions their counterparts dont. More commonly there are non communist Marxists in philosophy.

    I agree that almost all Marxists are communists, I just felt your initial response was a simplification that lost more meaning in the simplification than it necessarily needed to.



  • How is saying Stalin wasn’t a great guy either denying the holocaust?

    You aren’t saying that though, you are saying that they killed an equivalent amount of people. You’re morally equating them. Also even the CIA didn’t consider stalin a dictator in their since declassified internal documents, treating him as one is another way you were taught to equate the USSR with nazi Germany.

    Yes ofc, but a big percentage of the deportated people were Jewish. They killed two thirds of the European Jewish population.

    I know, that isn’t the only group they targeted though. I was simply correcting an inaccuracy in what you said.

    No:

    Sorry, I thought it was high hundreds of thousands but it was actually a million. My mistake. Still, that is in no way similar to killing upwards of 35 million people in the name of bigotry.