Cheung Mo
13th February 2007, 17:06
I don't care if you're more reactionary than Dick Cheney: The Tsars were complete fucking dictators, and their crimes --- documented and undocumented -- against peasants, against labourers, against politician dissidents, and against ethnic and religious minorities rivalled Hitler's.
Even if -- like myself -- you deplore Stalin and are more sympathetic towards other streams of Marxist and/or anarchist thought, nobody at that time had the benefit of hindsight and, by extension, the ability to realise that the USSR would have developed the way it did and degenerated into an imperialistic and bureaucratic police state rivalling the U.S.
Even if -- like myself -- you deplore Stalin and are more sympathetic towards other streams of Marxist and/or anarchist thought, nobody at that time had the benefit of hindsight and, by extension, the ability to realise that the USSR would have developed the way it did and degenerated into an imperialistic and bureaucratic police state rivalling the U.S.