• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Yep, it’s 100% vibes based and excessively frustrating to deal with. You don’t even have to support the USSR or anything, just please be historically and politically consistent!

      • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        I have critical support for the USSR because they were clearly a net good and their existence gave leverage and power to workers’ movements in the US because they were terrified of us doing our own october revolution. It is glaringly obvious that the existence of the communist bloc held at bay the unrestrained voracious maw of capital because we can see what happened in the years since its (illegal) dissolution.

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          7 months ago

          Sure, I largely agree. I don’t believe the USSR was perfect, but I see it as invaluable to seeing how a large-scale socialist project can actually work, and what parts didn’t. Regardless of tendency, it’s one of the best examples of Socialism at work, period, for good or ill.