• MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Stalin himself would go on to ally with governments to the right of social democracies in order to fight actual fascists. It’s absolutely an L that he lumped them all in together as basically the same. It’s also absurd to be so dogmatic about a comment made 100 years ago in a wildly different political and material context.

    How many hexbears started out as social democrats during Bernie 2016?

    At the end of the day, these are people who’ve taken a concrete step left of the Democratic Party. We should be convincing them to take more steps, not calling them fascists.

    • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      3 months ago

      Okay, but consider ceding the terrain where the baby social democrats and socialists congregate to groundwork and SMC because social democrats are annoying? : P Then we’d be able to hang out in the cool kids club without having to constantly explain ourselves to the semi-organized masses, which communists, as you know, hate doing.