Stalin was a political opportunist who did whatever he had to to maintain power. I can understand why a Russian nationalist might have admiration for him, because Russia became very powerful under him whatever he did. But it seems very dumb to me for a leftist to ironically worship him.
Most third world communists were nationalists. What set Pol Pot apart was that he was an ethnic supremacist. The North Korean regime was also supremacist to some degree, but they don't have enough minorities and foreign influenced people to kill. Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh were both nationalists won weren't ethnic supremacists, although the extreme paranoia at the height of the cultural Revolution did lead to a lot of foreigners getting roughed up by the student groups.
Nazis took over Germany thanks in part to the Commies in parliament completely shutting out the moderates. Since the moderates didn't have a majority this resulted in a dysfunctional and polarized government that kept getting disbanded by the president and re-elected. Being the accelerationist useful idiots that they were, the commies reasoned after the Nazis caused collapse they could take over and install True CommunismTM.
yep communisms main thing is not killing people, definitely
"lets start a movement where we specifically dont kill people" they all said
i find it hilarious how they all think theyre the working class and wouldnt immediately be shot in the back of the head and scraped into a ditch by a bulldozer for being rich kids under any serious sort of communism
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1 QueenOfTheIncels 2018-06-13
/u/TerribleWebsite LOL nice
1 LightUmbra 2018-06-13
I feel like you'd need multiple ice axes, but the concept is nice.
1 Not_RCMP_ 2018-06-13
Seems like a fair compromise tbh
1 newcomer_ts 2018-06-13
I like unironic use of "sad" in the title.
I mean, really, you feel deeply saddened that such level of autism can exist.
12 year olds confirmed.
1 old_grumpy_grandpa 2018-06-13
>unironic
It's a motherfucking Donald Trump reference
1 automatic_chuck 2018-06-13
Sad!
1 spookyguy109 2018-06-13
Stalin was the guy who coined the term "rootless cosmopolitan" and killed a bunch of Soviet Jews during the Trials from 1936-38.
1 Singulaire 2018-06-13
He also tried to displace all the Jews in the soviet union and concentrate them all in Birobidzhan.
1 preserved_fish 2018-06-13
Still an autonomous oblast after all these years.
1 supadik 2018-06-13
Kalmykia is an autonomous state and it basically comes from the Mongols who immigrated there in 1223
1 preserved_fish 2018-06-13
Still an autonomous Jewish Oblast however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
1 tempTemp0001 2018-06-13
And tried to accuse them of attempting to assassinate some high level soviet officials
1 Antigonus1i 2018-06-13
To be fair Stalin killed plenty of people from all political ethnic and religious background. In some ways he was the most radical of centrist.
1 watermark02 2018-06-13
Stalin was a political opportunist who did whatever he had to to maintain power. I can understand why a Russian nationalist might have admiration for him, because Russia became very powerful under him whatever he did. But it seems very dumb to me for a leftist to ironically worship him.
1 spookyguy109 2018-06-13
Team up with the nazis to own the libs epic style xD
1 muck4doo 2018-06-13
TIL Stalin was a centrist.
1 kwawi 2018-06-13
Tankies: Kill everyone who disagrees with me.
Nazis: Kill everyone who disagrees with me.
Radical centrists: Don't kill the lolcows.
1 DepletedMitochondria 2018-06-13
A SHITLOAD tbh
1 XSCR 2018-06-13
nah uh that's capitalist propaganda
1 buttcoinbuttcoin 2018-06-13
Imagine thinking centrist means taking half of one sides solution and half of the other.
1 GIANT_BLEEDING_ANUS 2018-06-13
Yeah what dumbasses, we all know the right-left line is exponential, not linear.
Abort ex /2 babies!
1 rhyme-ocerus 2018-06-13
If these dudes were critical thinkers, they wouldn't be posting there anyway
¯\(ツ)/¯
1 imissyouseattle 2018-06-13
As a radical centrist I only put half and half in my coffee because center means 50% and also I graduated community college.
1 Proto105 2018-06-13
How surprising that people with radical ideologies have no idea what centrism, or any political ideology besides their own, actually means
1 Mexagon 2018-06-13
Even King Solomon laughed at these types of retards.
1 Daxx46 2018-06-13
King Solomon > Thanod
1 KingNothing305 2018-06-13
Thanos fucking death means she kills less people
1 cabforpitt 2018-06-13
I guess the Soviets were centrists the whole time.
1 Neon_needles 2018-06-13
Wait, does my chapo wanna nuke Israel nonstop???
1 Mikeavelli 2018-06-13
Those are (((jews))), not Jews.
1 moondoggy101 2018-06-13
western leftists love an underdog.
1 Chanchumaetrius 2018-06-13
thinkingemoji.tiff
1 moondoggy101 2018-06-13
Well a smarter person would have realized I obviously meant the underdog was Palestine.
1 Parado-I 2018-06-13
if you commit genocides, it doesn't matter how oppressed your ancestors were, you've lost any moral high ground.
1 gumble212 2018-06-13
If you commit ChapoTrapHouse you lose the high ground
1 Awayfone 2018-06-13
I dont think most of chapo's ancestors were oppressed
1 Shitposting_Skeleton 2018-06-13
""""genocide""""
1 souprize 2018-06-13
They also hate Saudi Arabia, which means they're islamaphobic. Also Bernie shushes women constantly, that misogynist.
1 LSDawson 2018-06-13
oof
1 watermark02 2018-06-13
Most third world communists were nationalists. What set Pol Pot apart was that he was an ethnic supremacist. The North Korean regime was also supremacist to some degree, but they don't have enough minorities and foreign influenced people to kill. Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh were both nationalists won weren't ethnic supremacists, although the extreme paranoia at the height of the cultural Revolution did lead to a lot of foreigners getting roughed up by the student groups.
1 Ultrashitposter 2018-06-13
Thirld Worldism is genuinely closer to national socialism than any form of Marxism.
1 nanonan 2018-06-13
Radical centrism isn't about compromise, it's pointing out how everyone is wrong except me.
1 throwawayforme9000 2018-06-13
Yeah we should just kill millions of ukrainians instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
1 Duness 2018-06-13
Extreme left "let's starve all Ukrainians"!
1 siskonaut 2018-06-13
That didn't happen, and even if it did it was a complete accident which the kulaks deserved anyways.
1 imissyouseattle 2018-06-13
Xoxols are (((people))) too
1 supadik 2018-06-13
crimea is russia too
1 watermark02 2018-06-13
Sounds fair imo. And starve 35 million Chinese this time.
1 ChipChippersonAMA 2018-06-13
And to balance it out let's do some shit in Croatia that's so bad it pisses off even the nazis
1 Baconlightning 2018-06-13
Literally the best thing communism has ever done
1 MegaSeedsInYourBum 2018-06-13
Oh man they're mad. Amazing.
1 No_Time_4_Gussy 2018-06-13
Centrism is the new alt right
1 _Suprememe_ 2018-06-13
Nazis took over Germany thanks in part to the Commies in parliament completely shutting out the moderates. Since the moderates didn't have a majority this resulted in a dysfunctional and polarized government that kept getting disbanded by the president and re-elected. Being the accelerationist useful idiots that they were, the commies reasoned after the Nazis caused collapse they could take over and install True CommunismTM.
1 aiyooooo 2018-06-13
What does praxis mean in the context of CTH?
1 tempTemp0001 2018-06-13
I'd like to know as well
1 Deity_Of_Death 2018-06-13
It's like the tankie/anarchist version of "MAGA".
1 captainpriapism 2018-06-13
implying they know themselves
1 Plexipus 2018-06-13
A real world Reddit upvote
1 captainpriapism 2018-06-13
yep communisms main thing is not killing people, definitely
"lets start a movement where we specifically dont kill people" they all said
i find it hilarious how they all think theyre the working class and wouldnt immediately be shot in the back of the head and scraped into a ditch by a bulldozer for being rich kids under any serious sort of communism
1 MargarineIsEvil 2018-06-13
So do the gulags and purges not count? Are we only counting Jewish kills?
1 Destirigon 2018-06-13
More like:
Nazis: Gas the jews because they aren't aryan
Commies: Gas the jews because they are rich
Radical™ Centrists™: Gas the jews for the lulz
1 ChipChippersonAMA 2018-06-13
Centrists gas up the cars so we can take our twinks to the beach
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-06-13
tfw Liberal Democracy was NOT centrist in a world of literal authoritarian Communists and Nazis.
1 KingNothing305 2018-06-13
Got to love those tankie faggots. Ignoring history when it's convenient. Cause those commies never ever did some ethnic cleansing of their own.