I was wondering why Marxism was still a thing and this placed seemed to be filled with Marxists. So, why? Didn’t the fall of USSR teach us anything? Do today’s Marxists think that USSR did something wrong? In other words, will they do anything different than the dictators of the soviet union? Also, some here seem to admire Stalin. I would really have to try hard to find a community that would admire Hitler but apparently admiring Stalin, another mass murder seems to be perfectly fine!
I’ve never met a single african/asian communist who was a fan of Stalin: they were respectively fan of other figures (such as Lumumba) and very afraid of purges such as initiated by Pol Pot / Stalin. As for south america, the only communists i’ve met from there were libertarians (anarchists), not marxist-leninists.
But to be fair, i’ve never traveled to those places and met people from THE PARTY. there’s a selective bias at play where those people i’ve met were mostly political refugees. Still, being a communist has nothing to do with supporting Lenin/Stalin.
I’ve never met a single african/asian communist who was a fan of Stalin: they were respectively fan of other figures (such as Lumumba) and very afraid of purges such as initiated by Pol Pot / Stalin. As for south america, the only communists i’ve met from there were libertarians (anarchists), not marxist-leninists.
But to be fair, i’ve never traveled to those places and met people from THE PARTY. there’s a selective bias at play where those people i’ve met were mostly political refugees. Still, being a communist has nothing to do with supporting Lenin/Stalin.