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[an apple]

I've been quite baffled by some people's (on this site) opinions on dictatorships/autocracies.

Is anyone supportive of the dictatorial and brutal stances of people such as Stalin and Hoxha?

I've seen quite a few images of Stalin and seen mention of Hoxha. How would these bloody and murderous dictatorships be in anyway good?

[RedArmyUK]

I've been quite baffled by some people's (on this site) opinions on dictatorships/autocracies.

Is anyone supportive of the dictatorial and brutal stances of people such as Stalin and Hoxha?

I've seen quite a few images of Stalin and seen mention of Hoxha. How would these bloody and murderous dictatorships be in anyway good?

Stalin knew how to deal with Nazi POWs,:thumbup1: Unlike that soft C*** Churchill :thumbdown:

[Gleb]

Stalin knew how to deal with Nazi POWs,:thumbup1: Unlike that soft C*** Churchill :thumbdown:

This is what I'd call grand failure.

[ZeroNowhere]

I've been quite baffled by some people's (on this site) opinions on dictatorships/autocracies.

Is anyone supportive of the dictatorial and brutal stances of people such as Stalin and Hoxha?

I've seen quite a few images of Stalin and seen mention of Hoxha. How would these bloody and murderous dictatorships be in anyway good?
I believe that you just opened up a can of worms.

[NecroCommie]

I've been quite baffled by some people's (on this site) opinions on dictatorships/autocracies.

Is anyone supportive of the dictatorial and brutal stances of people such as Stalin and Hoxha?

I've seen quite a few images of Stalin and seen mention of Hoxha. How would these bloody and murderous dictatorships be in anyway good?
The people who support dictatorships and brutality are a small minority on this forum. Most people here who "support Stalin" usually support his economic policies and other successes. Even those people are a minority.

Even I dont blatantly demonize an entire policy, as Stalin clearly had some good impacts too on SU. However one might question whether he was a real communist or not, and many people here do.

For more in-depth details on Soviet-Union (RIP) see the "history" sub-forum.

[Charles Xavier]

Funny you got a quote in your signature of Che Guevara who loved Stalin, he went to the Soviet union and laid a wreath on Stalin's grave.

I don't know if you are honestly interested in learning or interested in trolling with your 2 sentence post.

[#FF0000]

I've been quite baffled by some people's (on this site) opinions on dictatorships/autocracies.

Is anyone supportive of the dictatorial and brutal stances of people such as Stalin and Hoxha?

I've seen quite a few images of Stalin and seen mention of Hoxha. How would these bloody and murderous dictatorships be in anyway good?

Well, usually people here are defending them from some less than true and other outright false claims about them, and pointing out that they did do positive things in the USSR and Albania. Not all Marxist-Leninists agree with every action they might have taken, but still agree with what they contributed to Marxist theory.

It should be pointed out that not everyone on Revleft supports Stalin, Hoxha, Mao...etc.

[RedArmyUK]

This is what I'd call grand failure.

Who?

[an apple]

Funny you got a quote in your signature of Che Guevara who loved Stalin, he went to the Soviet union and laid a wreath on Stalin's grave.

I don't know if you are honestly interested in learning or interested in trolling with your 2 sentence post.

I know of Guevara's liking of Stalin, though Che's views on Stalin changed over time. I idolize Che, not because of his idols, but because of his ideals and determination.

And I have no intent of trolling the forums. I have always been fascinated by totalitarian leaders (have stacks of books on them) and was interested to see the leftist view on their leadership.

And as for the shortness of my post, I might explain this with a quote from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:

"Less is More"

[LOLseph Stalin]

Is anyone supportive of the dictatorial and brutal stances of people such as Stalin and Hoxha?

I don't support these people so don't worry. :p

As others have said before me, the people here who do are indeed a minority. Most people are generally Anti-Authoritarian/Anarchist.

[Jack]

I don't support these people so don't worry. :p

As others have said before me, the people here who do are indeed a minority. Most people are generally Anti-Authoritarian/Anarchist.

Sadly I wouldn't say that.

You Marxists have us outnumbered on here combined, but we're the largest single tendency while there are more Marxists, you're divided.

Just making an observation.

[LOLseph Stalin]

You Marxists have us outnumbered on here combined, but we're the largest single tendency while there are more Marxists, you're divided.

Yea, I guess that's true. There's Trotskyists, Stalinists, etc. With Anarchists there seems to be just Anarchists.

[Jack]

But they call us sectarian!

We tend not to have too many differences. Mutualists, Individualists, Primmies, and "eco anarchists" are all pretty irrelavent and only exist for petit bourgeois teenagers, and collectivists are nonexistant.

[LOLseph Stalin]

But they call us sectarian!

I'm probably the sectarian one. I'm a Trot!

[Jack]

I'm probably the sectarian one. I'm a Trot!

Stop trying to steal the CGT!

You darn Trots and your entryism.