• peanuts4life@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      Both. Fascist apologist like to cherry pick palatable characteristics of figures like Stalin, or Hitler, or Andrew Jackson in order to destigmatize thier idolatry of these figures. These “certain aspects” are the tip of the wedge they use to destroy rationality and peace.

      A reasonable person who would like to discuss the benefits of communism would point to the value of labor, advantages of unions, and the dignity of the worker, not the evil, paranoid, and violent person of Stalin.

      Always, the stink of fascism follows the idolization of so called “great men.” Excuses after excuses.

        • peanuts4life@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          The Holocaust most definitely happened and was perpetuated by the Nazis. Please don’t accuse me of denial.

          Communism, or to be most specific, Marxism, was most definitely aligned against Hitler.

          Stalin, was not. He would have watched Hitler kill all of Europe had the Nazis not attacked Russia. Same as the united states if Japan had not attacked them.

            • peanuts4life@beehaw.org
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              4
              ·
              1 year ago

              I’m not obsessed with Stalin. I’m also not a Holocaust denier. You really seem keen on saying inflammatory things about me without any preceding context.

              I will observe that I think Stalin was an awful person who tarnished the reputation of socialism for a century. I don’t have anything against socialist, being one myself.

              I have a beef with apologist for failed communist states like the soviet onion. I feel they deeply misrepresent socialism.

                • peanuts4life@beehaw.org
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  5
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  1 year ago

                  It’s a semantic argument, then. To me a fascist is a Donald Trump. To me, Facisim is a broad set of characteristics which can be attributed to people outside of the context of Nazi Germany. For example, I might call an ancient emperor a fascist.

                  Facisim to you is a political movement linked only to the Nazis and thier allies.

                  That’s not unfair. It’s a different definition of the word.

            • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              1 year ago

              Your historical notes are technically correct, and Stalin did even attempt to reach a pact with France to limit the potential expansion of Nazi Germany. However, once those initiatives failed, Stalin had no issue about pacting with Hitler instead to invade third countries together, which highlights how Stalin’s first priority was improving his geopolitical position, rather than an ideological opposition to nazism.

            • Quereller@lemmy.one
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              Do you deny the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact and the illegal attack on Poland by the Soviet union under its leader Josef Stalin?

        • peanuts4life@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          I am of the strong opinion that fascism doesn’t care if you call yourself a communist, a capitalist, or a Democrat. If someone promotes a state which strips the power of local and individual labor for it’s own use; cultivates violence as a means of domestic control; supports expansionism; and finally the consolidation of power under a personality; I oppose it, and call it what it is.

        • Fizz@lemmy.nz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Because they were attacked. Otherwise they would have happily sat out of ww2.